If the Antimalware Service Executable or the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Service Executable is constantly hogging your CPU while you’re trying to get work done, or draining the battery of your laptop, you’re likely constantly changing files it deems necessary to scan. On my work machine, I had two culprits: A virtual machine disk […]
If you have pivoted data, you probably don’t want to name all the columns to move one, as a lot of them are going to contain dynamic data. The solution is to use the list of columns, manually moving the one you want into the desired position, as such: = Table.ReorderColumns(PreviousStepName, List.InsertRange(List.RemoveItems(Table.ColumnNames(PreviousStepName), {“ColumnToMove”}), 4, {“ColumnToMove”})) […]
If you use saved passwords in your .rdp files on Windows, or from the command line on Linux, you may find yourself being prompted for a password anyway, after the latest updates. The option to allow this still exists, however, and can be found by running gpedit.msc (from the Run box, Win+R) and heading over […]
Following up on my previous post with the same topic, for Hyper-V, this is how to get DNS names for your VirtualBox guest VM’s into your hosts file on a Windows host. First things first, you need the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed for the host to tell OS level information about the guest, just as […]
So, running a couple of Hyper-V machines, and needing to determine their local IP addresses to connect to them. As long as the Hyper-V Integration Services are installed (apt-get install hyperv-daemons on Debian-based distributions), PowerShell on the host machine will have access to the IP addresses of the client machine. Without the Integration Services, PowerShell […]
Just a short reference for myself (and maybe for you). How to run Docker for Windows, mount a local file system drive inside of the container, grab the swagger.json file off of a URL, and generate a library: Using swagger-codegen-cli (old): docker run -it -v //c/temp/swagger:/local –network host –rm swaggerapi/swagger-codegen-cli generate -i “http://docker.for.win.localhost:5000/swagger/v1/swagger.json” -l csharp […]
We recently encountered this in a production environment: A customer had installed a new certificate, and this exception began showing up in the logs. Luckily, the application was smart enough to at least fall back on using the previous (not yet expired) certificate, so no downtime occurred. Turns out the customer had been provided with […]
So, you resurrected a VM from the cold, damp crypts of the deepest backup dungeons, and now you can’t log in because the VM doesn’t trust the domain server anymore? That’s alright. The Windows Domain will rotate its keys from time to time, and an offline VM snapshot will not know about it. You don’t […]
Classic whodunit – the file is gone. Who deleted it? Well, unless you’ve already prepared for this, Windows has no log for you. Sorry. The good news is that this is an excellent time to prepare for the next time. So let’s do that. Enable the auditing of file operations to the Windows Event Log […]
I wrote this tool today, as I was annoyed having to do a bunch of changes to a configuration file on a client site through a restrictive remote tool that doesn’t let you paste or transfer any files for “security reasons” (read: BOFH) It pastes text, files and entire directory structures by simulating keyboard input. […]