Jul 16 2017
For those of you that live in Canada, you are no doubt aware that the Bank of Canada recently increased their policy rate from 0.5% to 0.75%. I heard of a lot of media reporting that said this is the first change in 7 years. I further read that we could expect further increases in …
Jul 09 2017
Have you ever been using PowerShell, created a function that called another function and then tried to return data from the parent function only to discover that the returned data included more ‘stuff’ than you intended? This quick blog post demonstrates why that is and presents one workaround to prevent it in the future. Clear-Host …
Apr 01 2017
Autohotkey is an invaluable tool for automating tasks we perform hundreds of times per day without even thinking of it. The tasks many only take a few seconds each, but added up over the course of a year or more, it really adds up! One such common task involves switching between applications in Windows. Sure, …
Feb 02 2017
Credit where credit is due, this is taken directory from the blog below and is documented here only so I can easily find it again in the future. Source: https://deployhappiness.com/quick-tip-add-computer-to-group-gpupdate-without-restart Let’s say you add a computer to a group but you want that computer to gain that membership but can’t restart the system. What do …
Jan 14 2017
This HOWTO is a proof of concept to demonstrate a way to take an Active Directory environment on one server and restore it to a different server on an entirely different network. The scenario in this example is we have a domain controller which has a number of other third party applications installed and we …
Oct 30 2016
Do you use VMware Workstation on Windows? Do you run more than a handful of VMs? Have you ever had your host CPU pinned by one of the instances of vmware-vmx.exe but the only way you could figure out which VM was the issue was by logging into each one and checking CPU usage there? …
Oct 25 2016
I have previously discussed how to use a Windows based computer to write in Japanese and Chinese. The time has come to tackle the next of the Asian languages, Vietnamese. As before, the same disclaimer applies. The information below is what I was able to figure out based on information primary from Google and Wikipedia. …
Oct 18 2016
Are you interested in Office 365 and ADFS but are intimidated by it and not sure where to begin? If that’s the case, you’ve come to the right place. I have been studying to write my 70-346 (Managing Office 365 Identities Exam) and realized that I was still really weak on ADFS and how all …
Jul 01 2016
I recently upgraded my laptop from the now four year old Lenovo W530 to a shiny new Lenovo P50 complete with a Xeon 2.8Ghz CPU, 64GB of RAM and an NVME M.2 boot drive. Not only did I upgrade the hardware but I also switched from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10. So far so good. …
Mar 06 2016
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