Category: Tips

Trouble getting OneDrive to start up on Windows 10 login ?

On By Philip FlintIn TipsLeave a comment

If One Drive will not start when you log in to Windows 10, that’s because they’ve changed the way in which auto-launched applications start on logon. Not only do you have to tock the check box in OneDrive, you also have to enable it at startup which, fortunately, is very easy to do.

  1. Go to task manager
  2. Click on the “Startup” tab
  3. Select “Microsoft OneDrive”
  4. Click on Enable
  5. Reboot and you are good to go

 

 

Display make and model of server hardware

On By Philip FlintIn IT, TipsLeave a comment

Ever been in that place where you need to know that is the make and model of a server ? For documentation or planning purposes for example ?

You know, the time when you might have to work out what the power draw is of your hardware before moving into a hosted data center or know which spares to hold for physical servers ?

A quick way to get the make and model of the hardware is to run the command below:

wmic computersystem get Name, domain, Manufacturer, Model, NumberofProcessors, PrimaryOwnerName,Username, Roles, totalphysicalmemory /format:list

Getting the cluster size of CSV disks in Hyper-V

On By Philip FlintIn Hyper-V, IT, Powershell, TipsLeave a comment

If you want to check the cluster size of NTFS formatted disks used for Cluster Shared Volumes, here’s some handy code below. Just change the names of the hyper-v clusters you want to check in red and run from an administrative level powershell prompt.

If you want another row of information from the fsutil command, just change the number where it says $arr[9]

Import-Module FailoverClusters

$Clusters = (“My-CLUSTERNAME01“,”My-CLUSTERNAME02“,”My-CLUSTERNAME03“)

#Get CSVs foreach cluster

foreach($Cluster in $Clusters){

      $c = Get-ClusterSharedVolume -Cluster $Cluster 

     $csvs += $c

}

foreach ($csv in $csvs) {

     invoke-command -ComputerName $csv.ownernode -scriptblock {

                 param ($name,$node)

                 $Clustersize = fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo “C:ClusterStorage$name” 

                $arr = $Clustersize -split ‘`n’

                write-host $name ” on ” $node ” has ” $arr[9]    

         }   -argumentlist $csv.name, $csv.OwnerNode

}

 

The output reports against the owner node for the CSV. As the underlying disk for the CSV is the same on all nodes, I report against the owner node to limit the output to one row per CSV.