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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
In this post you will learn how you can launch the Kubernetes Web UI Dashboard from you Windows Bash connected to the new Azure AKS service. Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux Before we get started with kubectl, we need to install the “Windows Subsystem for Linux”. This will enable us Read more…
When using HP Loadrunner 12 and above with TruClientIE there is a known issue that the TCS process stops working after a couple of minutes. Running a normal scenario with 10 VUsers will cause the scenario to fail after about 20 to 30 minutes, because there will be no more Read more…