Upgrade Server 2016 Evaluation to Full

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If you try to change the product key with a retail key it would give the prompt "This edition cannot be upgraded" You can get the current version of the os by opening command prompt as admin and enter DISM /online /Get-CurrentEdition To get the list of editions it can be upgraded to DISM /online /Get-TargetEditions To upgrade Standard eval to Standard full use the generic product key within this command dism /online /set-edition:ServerStandard /productkey:WC2BQ-8NRM3-FDDYY-2BFGV-KHKQY /accepteula To upgrade Standard eval to Datacenter full or Datacenter eval to Datacenter full DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /ProductKey:CB7KF-BWN84-R7R2Y-793K2-8XDDG /AcceptEula Once done restart your computer.(it can take a while to come back up as it will mention adding features Once logged in run this command winver.exe...
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Enable wake on lan Dell Poweredge T110 II

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Go into BIOS Change Network Card to Enable PXE Boot. eg under Integrated Devices Mouse down to Embedded Gb NIC1 and press right arrow You should now be able to press CTRL + S at boot time and enter the broadcom setup screen Enable WOL by changing Pre-boot Wake On Lan to enable save with F4 and reboot Go back into BIOS and check your boot order eg change USB or HDD to boot up 1st if your not booting from PXE save and reboot...
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Enable Ping In Windows Server 2016

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in powershell enter sconfigoption 4then option 3 to enable ping and click yes on both prompts Allow ping through Windows FirewallWindows Firewall with Advanced SecurityInbound Rules“File and printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)” and enable the rule.3if IPv6 is needed enable the “File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv6-In)” rule ...
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Install WordPress on Centos Web Panel

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Under a user account on CWP, Create MySQL Database from CWP under SQL Services --> MySQL Manager --> Create Database and User Download the wordpress files from https://wordpress.org/download/and extract the file to your computer. Then FTP them to public_html on the server using the users login details Go to the domain you have for the user and it will prompt to setup wordpress, and enter the details for the SQL database you created Database - full file path from mysql_manager user - all up to [localhost] Password - the password you created for the Database user Server - localhost...
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Found my Site mentioned it was Not secure

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I noticed that this site homepage did not say secure instead it had the info icon. I looked into it and found a plugin was causing this. I used whynopadlock.com and it told me Soft Failure A file with an insecure url of "http://placehold.it/45x45/f0f0f0/ccc" was loaded on line: 152 of https://pyrolaptop.co.uk/. This URL will need to be updated to use a secure URL for your padlock to return. I looked at the sause of the page view-source:https://pyrolaptop.co.uk/ and it was under a plugin I used Recent Posts Widget Extended...
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Export list of Mac addresses used by Hyper-V VMs

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Run Powershell as admin Get-vm | Get-VMNetworkAdapter | select-object VMname, Macaddress, Name | Export-Csv -Delimiter ";" -Path C:\vmmacs.csv VMName = name of the virtual machine Macaddress = Mac of the VM being used Name = The type of network adapter being used such as Network Adapter and Legacy Network Adapter Delimiter is ; which is how they are spaced out so that you can convert from text to collumn. Open the file in Excel, select the column, then click on Data tab then text to columns, select delimited and click on next and then ensure only semicolon is ticked, and then click finish   ...
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