Mark Arnott's questions

Windows Server has always had an MMC snap-in for certificates, but it is not visible.

I would like to add an icon to the administrative tools control panel so that administrators without a lot of experience can easily open the certificates console.

Is there a way to do that?

I know that you can load the snap-in and then save a .MSC file in your user profile. While that is nice, it is not what I am looking for. I have hundreds of servers and dozens of administrators.

Since at least Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft has shipped certlm.msc in the Windows\System32 folder. I know that I can hit Win+R and type certlm.msc to launch the 'local machine' certificate console. While that is even nicer, it is not what I am looking for. Many of my system administrators are inexperienced. I need something dead simple. pointy, clicky, go is what I am looking for.

Windows Server 2016 comes with a shiny new module named IISAdministration. But when I try to load the module I get the error that 'no valid module file was found'. It is not on the powershell gallery and google does not find a download on the internet.

So where is that module hiding? How to I get it installed on my Windows Server 2016?

If I shutdown a virtual machine in azure, it shows it's status as 'stopped'. But I am still getting billed for cores until I can get the machine into a 'stopped (deallocated)' state.

How do I get the machine to go from 'stopped' to 'stopped (deallocated)' in the management portal?

I need to create a script to run on a server that I do not have access to.

I need the script to append a string to an existing string value (Type = REG_SZ). The script cannot just replace the entire string with a new value as I don't know what is currently in the entry and I can't lose what is already there.

I was thinking along the lines of regini.exe, but i couldn't figure out how to export, append, import with regini.exe and a batch file. Maybe powershell could do the trick.

On my windows 2008 server I have a network share. I am logged on to the server with full administrator rights. I would like to know what users have active connections to that share.

How do I find that information?

I want to install the administration tools on a Windows Server 2008 (R1) machine. On Windows 2003 you installed adminpak.msi, but I can't find such a file for 2008.

Is this a "feature" in Server Manager? If so what is it named?

---UPDATE--- So I drilled into the server Features list and I have "Remote Server Administration Tools" but it only includes File Services, Print Services and Web Server.

This is a member server in a domain but not a domain controller. It is Windows 2008 (original) not R2. Still, why can't it run AD users and computers from this machine?