Jason Yoder, MCT

I love this job.  I’m not only talking about what I do in the civilian world as an IT Trainer, but also as a Navy Chief Petty Officer.  I received a Facebook message from a Marine at Camp Pendleton a few nights ago in need of some assistance with PowerShell. Below is his line of code and his error Get-User -organizationalunit test.local.net/users -RecipentTypeDetails Get-ADUser : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'organizationalunit'. At line:1 char:12 + Get-ADUser -organizationalunit PowerIT.com/users +            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~     + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-ADUser], ParameterBindingException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.GetADUser Being both a PowerShell enthusiast and a Navy Chief, I helped him see wha...

Here is a simple solution for my Shipmates moving to Windows 8. When you access the NMCI Webmail client, you may not be able to see any emails and the menu bar may look like this: To correct this, we need to make sure that the NMCI web client loads in Internet Explorer compatibility mode. What is the IE Compatibility mode? Since IE version 8, not all websites compile correctly. The Compatibility mode makes Internet Explorer compile a web page as if you were using IE 7. To be honest, I have all Navy website do this. Here is how to set this up. Go to the Windows 8 desktop and open Internet Explorer from there. Do not do it from the touch interface. If you do not see the Menu Bar in IE, right click the top of the window and check Menu bar . Click Tools à Compatibility View Settings . Add in Navy.mil and then click Add . Click Close when finished. Let the browser reload and you will get to your NMCI email.

NAVFIT98a Version 28 Installation instructions for Windows 7 Author: IT1 J. Yoder Microsoft Certified Trainer NR Chinhae HQ NOSC Indianapolis This instruction is provided without warranty or support. Propose: This document will explain how to get NAVFIT98A to work on all editions of the Windows 7 operating system without using virtualization. This procedure should work on both home and business editions of Windows 7. Last fall I published an article on how to get NavFIT98A to install on Windows 7 using Windows XP mode .  To this day it is one of the most popular articles on my blog.  At the request of many, I am providing instructions below on how to get NavFIT98A to work on Windows 7 64-bit (or 32-bit) without using virtualization.  I was happy to find a test deployment of NAVFIT98A using App-V at Microsoft .  Application virtualization is one of the methods at our disposal for handling application compatibility problems that often arise durin...

NAVFIT98a Version 28 Installation instructions for Windows 7 Author: IT1 J. Yoder Microsoft Certified Trainer NR Chinhae HQ NOSC Indianapolis This instruction is provided without warranty or support. UPDATE:  Click this link to go to a new set of instructions that may install NavFit on all versions of Windows 7 without using virtualization. Propose: This document will explain how to get NAVFIT98A to work on certain editions of the Windows 7 operating system. Personal Identity Information (PII) Issues: Follow all procedures to safe guard the data entered into NAVFIT98a. As a potential measure to increase the safety of this information, consider not entering Social Security Numbers in the evaluations until you can do so on an NMCI client. Also, send evaluations on your .MIL email accounts with the following subject line: Privacy Act Protected, FOUO . Issue: The current implementation of NAVFIT98A V28 should work (according to its documentation) on Windows V...