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List windows updates or Hotfixes installed after a certain date

Ever found something broken and wondered what updates have been installed since a certain point in the past?

PS C:\Users\robin> Get-HotFix | ? installedon -gt 06/09/2015

Source        Description      HotFixID      InstalledBy          InstalledOn
——        ———–      ——–      ———–          ———–
Mxxxxx    Update           KB2693643     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM  09/07/2015…

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OpenVPN on Windows 8 Routing fails

I just installed OpenVPN on Windows 8 and found that everything looked to be in order, the software ran (as administrator) and appeared to connect with a delay and a number of errors in the log.  The result being that the VPN connection wasn’t working properly.

It looks like OpenVPN requires the “Network Connections” service to be running.  Simply change this service from manual to automatic (so you don’t have to do this again) and start it.  OpenVPN should then connect correctly with no warnings.