When moving or duplicating Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), you may encounter an issue where the VM’s disk is offline due to a signature collision. This commonly happens when: Cloning disk images (using dd, azcopy, or exporting VHDs). Creating a new VM from a disk...
CrowdStrike, in an effort to mitigate the widespread disruption caused by the recent CrowdStrike content bug, they have launched a comprehensive “Remediation and Guidance Hub.” This initiative comes in response to the catastrophic crash of approximately 8.5 million...
Microsoft has released a recovery tool designed to aid IT administrators in fixing Windows machines affected by the recent CrowdStrike Falcon agent issue. This problem led to widespread Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) errors, impacting approximately 1% of Windows machines...
The world of cybersecurity faced a catastrophic event recently when a CrowdStrike bug led to the crashing of 8.5 million PCs, approximately 1% of...
The recent CrowdStrike bug that took out 1% of Windows machines (approx. 8.5 million PCs) globally, the question of why Antivirus apps use Kernel...
On July 18, 2024, CrowdStrike released a update with a bug that significantly impacted Windows machines globally, including virtual machines (VMs)...
Windows PowerToys is back, and it rocks! Many of us have been reliving the "old days", this week as Windows 95 turned 25. I loved Windows 95 when it...
Microsoft released the new Windows Package Manager (winget) as an open source, community driven package manager for installing, updating,...
TLDR: Start-->Run-->ncpa.cpl Have you ever lost 6 minutes of your life trying to find a network adapter in Windows? Yeah, me too. Windows...
Windows 7 was originally released approximately 10 years ago already on October 22, 2009. With the planned lifespan of Windows 7 (as is common with...
In the current cloud landscape, security has never been more important than it is today. This applies to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) security as...
Automate Everything. That’s my new mantra, and it should be yours... Like many of you, I’m an infrastructure guy and grew up with the crutches of...
Windows 10 IoT Core is Microsoft's version of the Windows 10 operating system being built to run Internet of Things (IoT) devices. There are a few...
There are many IoT hardware boards on the market today. Windows 10 IoT Core has some very specific hardware requirements, so only a few of the...
On Aug 17, 2016 I gave a "Getting Started with IoT" talk at the Milwaukee Azure group. In my talk I covered the basics of IoT Messaging Architecture...
Windows PowerShell the new Shell (first released in 2006) for Windows that provides the ability to implement Task Automation, and Configuration...
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update is a pretty big update for Windows Desktop, and it's not any different for Windows IoT Core! It's been an entire...