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A. If when you right click on the desktop there is no "New" item perform the following:...

A. To start a PowerShell session, you just need to run the "start powershell" command. However, you can also pass a command through the -Command switch. If you don't want the PowerShell instance to close once the command has run, you can also pass the -NoExit switch. For example, you may want to...

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A. In my April 15, 2008, FAQ (" Q: How can I use Windows PowerShell to get a count of all of my machine's services? "), I created a service count using a Foreach loop, which increased a counter by 1 for each object returned from the Get-Service command, as the following code shows:...

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A. If you enable features like RemoteFX on your Hyper-V server, you need to configure a licensing server per the prompt that is displayed on logon. However, the normal GUI way to configure licensing isn't available because you don't have RDSH installed...