I recently worked on a project where we needed to create a fully self configuring mounted wall display solution that could be zero touch deployed across the company. You can read more about the full solution in my upcoming blog post. In this post I will highlight one piece of
Microsoft disabled the Enable-ClusterStorageSpacesDirect feature in Windows Server 2019. The reason for it is that Microsoft is wating for hardware vendors to certify their hardware for Windows Server 2019. However if you are like me and have hardware that was perfectly fine with Windows Server 2016 you are probably a
When working with SQL data and lots of foreign keys, you may have the need to drop everything. Well I have just the right SQL statement for you. The following statement will drop everything the given database, including the following: non-system stored procedures views functions foreign key constraints primary key
A few weeks ago I wrote about using XCopy to copy files and folder structures including their NTFS Permissions. Recently I came to the point where I wanted to see all errors and their related files, so I could fix messed up NTFS permissions. With XCopy however parsing the log
XCopy is a very useful tool included in all versions of Windows. With XCopy you can copy large amounts of data with ease. Plus it has a switch that lets you copy over the NTFS permissions. Creating an initial full copy with XCopy xcopy “C:\Source Folder” “F:\Destination Folder” /X /H
When you are working with Visual Machines (VMs) and fixed hard disks it can happen that you run out of space. In such cases it comes in handy that you can simply extend the existing virtual hard disk. Since Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows 8.1 this is even possible while
Back in 2010 I founded the Minecraft server Raid-Craft which three years later turned out to be quite successful with over 50 users online at the same time. However at one point I made a decision wich would lead the server to its downfall. Almost 4 years later I learned about
Recently I came accross the issue of wanting to install apt packages in WSL behind a corporate proxy. Plus I wanted to update my yarn package by using “curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash” which also needs to go through the proxy. The solution is the same as if we
I dont know about other major towns but here in Munich we have a huge parking problem around the major company buildings. The problem is that the city does only allow a certain amount of parking lots per building to push people towards using public transport. As the result there
I first started designing the RAT Framework when programming plugins for Minecraft. At that time I needed a simple way to create achievements, conversations, quests and boss fights without hard coding everything into the plugins. I needed a way to outsource the logic into configuration files while maintaining the flexibility