"… Just get through the day …"
Dale"First of all, I do not want you to give in to the pressure of the moment. Whenever you're hurting bad, just hang in there. Finish the day. Then, if…
Saturday Link Roundup – Bitlocker Edition
How to backup recovery information in AD after BitLocker is turned ON in Windows 7 Manually Backup BitLocker Recovery Key to AD How to Script to simply enable Bitlocker on…
Saturday Link Roundup – Remote Desktop Edition
Secure RDS (Remote Desktop Services) Connections with SSL Removing Self-Signed RDP Certificates Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – Certificate Warnings Are My RDP Connections Really Secured by a Certificate? Microsoft Windows…
Saturday Link Roundup
Programming Adding the Google Contacts v3 API to my project Google Contacts API version 3.0 Visual Studio Toolbox: Managing User Secrets Good idea. Only Azure Cloud supported at the moment.…
The Strange Case of “Sometimes I can see the Office Templates directory, and sometimes I can’t.”
One of our customers reported that they intermittently lost access to the Office Templates directory. Sometimes it worked well, and sometimes “it was gone!”. The environment was Windows 10, with…
Why writing is blocked to C:\Program Files, and some other locations.
It’s the Data Redirection feature that was introduced with Windows Vista, in November 2006. Data Redirection – beginning with Windows Vista, standard users have restricted access to certain files, folders,…
“By enabling insecure guest logons, this setting reduces the security of Windows clients”
The initial thought was “it’s another ‘SMB1 is disabled’ causing connectivity problems” problem. Except it wasn’t. The issue was that our customer reported that they could no longer connect to…
Windows 10 and Office 365 update lists
The following are sites are where Microsoft list changes to Windows 10 & Office 365 Office 365 Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus Release information for updates to…
VicRoads Driving Test Routes
Update 2018: Note that these tests are up to 9 years old. Use as a guide only. What is here is what is here. I don't have any other testing…
Not ready for production … ReFS
So Resilient File System (ReFS) has been for 6 years so it should be stable for use with a backup drive, right? Nope: In the words of Wikipedia:"Because ReFS was…