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Prevent Security Prompt when opening .RDP Files

May 12, 2026 by Robbie

Are you here because suddenly you’ve found that whenever you or your users open .RDP files, this security prompt is now shown: You’ve investigated and you’ve found that this is due to an intentional security change Microsoft made in April 2026 updates that cause any unsigned .RDP file to present this warning on every launch … Read more

Remove Copilot Icon from Excel

May 11, 2026May 9, 2026 by Robbie

Did you recently launch Excel only to find yet another Copilot icon shoved into your face? This time it’s a permanent icon in the lower right of every worksheet. There is no option to disable, hide or remove it. Googling suggests there is supposed to be a copilot setting in Excel under File / Options … Read more

Import Hyper-V VM from another Server with a different filepath

May 11, 2026March 21, 2026 by Robbie

Consider the following scenario where you have two physical sites, production and failover. Each site includes a HyperV host and a SAN. The production environment is a HyperV Failover Cluster while the Failover site consists of a standalone HyperV host. The SAN volumes are replicated from production to the failover site as shown in the … Read more

Make Fortinet SysLogs Human Readable with PowerShell

May 10, 2026July 1, 2025 by Robbie

If you’ve ever looked at syslogs generated by a Fortinet Firewall, you know they are difficult to read. I was unable to find an easy way to make them human readable so I decided to do it myself with PowerShell and a little help from AI with the Regular Expressions (regex) needed to extract each … Read more

Identify cause of performance issue with Hyper-V Cluster and Shared Storage

May 11, 2026June 26, 2025 by Robbie

Do you have a Hyper-V cluster with multiple nodes and all of your VMs live on shared storage? Do you often have users complain that the virtual servers are “slow”? When you check task manager inside the VM, you don’t see obvious issues. You then open Resource Monitor and go to the disk tab and … Read more

Migrate Azure VM to OnPrem Hyper-V Host

May 11, 2026May 4, 2025 by Robbie

I recently had to move a test VM from Azure to an on-prem Hyper-V host. I wasn’t able to to find a clear guide for a migration of a simple single VM so I figured I’d share how I achieved it: 1) In the Azure portal, browse to the VHD disk for the VM you … Read more

HOWTO: Move EFI System Partition so you can increase space on System Drive

May 11, 2026July 29, 2023 by Robbie

You’ve likely found this page because you have a Windows virtual machine that has low space on the C: drive. You added more space to the VM using your hypervisor administration tool but when you log into the VM to try and extend the C: drive, you find yourself confronted with the problem below:

Explain “You do not have permission” error as a Domain Admin

May 11, 2026May 1, 2022 by Robbie

I recently had a customer express frustration they could no longer manage file permissions on their Windows Server with a newly created domain admin account. They would receive a “You do not have permission to access” error when trying to open folders in Windows Explorer when they were confirmed to have full permissions to those … Read more

Every Billboard Hot 100 #1 from 1958 to 2020

May 11, 2026May 24, 2021 by Robbie

This is a weird one. A thought popped in my head this evening I couldn’t shake. What would a music critic from the first year the Billboard Hot 100 launched think of the progression of pop music since? We live in the age where all the information you could want is at your finger tips … Read more

HOWTO: Find NAV user running long SQL queries

May 11, 2026August 24, 2019 by Robbie

I was recently tasked with determining why a NAV 2018 installation was occasionally performing poorly. I suspected that one or more users were running particular queries or functions but I needed to find a way to prove that. The catch was I am not a SQL DBA and I know even less about NAV. But … Read more