oasysadmin | Systems Administration tech notes

The method to force a synchronisation of you on premise active directory with Office 365 has changed from the method previously used with Dirsync when using the newer Azure AD Connect. In order to force a synchronisation you now need to navigate to:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Azure AD Sync\Bin...

If you need to find out which version of Powershell is installed on a machine simply open Powershell and type:
$PSVersionTable.PSVersion

In Powershell versions 2 and above you can use the get-hotfix command to determine whether a particular update, KB or hotfix is installed on a Windows Server or client. Simply open Powershell and run the following command:
get-hotfix -id KBxxxxxx
Where KBxxxxxx is the name of the update you wish to search for....

Under normal circumstances Windows Server Backup should manage disk space and remove the oldest backups automatically. This works fine normally but the other day I discovered that one of my servers had not been backing up due to the following error:
“Windows Backup encountered an error while writing to the backup target. Detailed Error: There is not enough space on the disk”...