Jim Ratsch's Technical Ramblings

How to manually remove a “temporary template” from System Center Virtual Machine Manager

You may find that when removing VM templates from System Center Virtual Machine Manager (multiple...

Author: Jim Ratsch Date: 08/09/2013

How to adjust “static memory” in Hyper-V 2012 without shutting down the virtual machine

Dynamic Memory allows you to set a range of memory to allocate to your VMs. Hyper-V 2012 has added a...

Author: Jim Ratsch Date: 06/18/2013

How to Create a Test Lab from a Production Environment Using Hyper-V and GPMC Scripts

Overview: The steps that follow involve creating a backup of the production group policies and...

Author: Jim Ratsch Date: 02/17/2012

How to reset offline files on a Windows client

Sometimes when using Offline Files, you can run into problems where synchronization fails. If you...

Author: Jim Ratsch Date: 03/24/2010

How to change the password for the local administrator account on multiple machines (the easy way without scripting)

Update: *** WARNING *** These procedures are no longer recommended for any production environment,...

Author: Jim Ratsch Date: 03/27/2009