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Powershell Speaking Clock

After a phone system upgrade we were unable to get the speaking clock within the office, which started off a conversation about how much it costs to call, presently 50p per call in the UK.

Music

Bordering On Obsession Released!

Over the summer I took part in a song writing game/mission with other songwriters on the web and one of the resultant songs that came out of the exercise was Bordering on Obsession, a song about lost loves, aspirations and self examination.

MicrosoftPowershellTech solutionsWindows

SOLVED: Windows DHCP – Search for a MAC Address

This is a super succinct method of finding a mac address on a Window s DHCP server: https://thewayeye.

Tech solutionsWindows

SOLVED: Windows does not have enough information to verify the certificate

Problem When moving from one ADFS server to another I imported a full certificate chain and private key into Machine certs on the new Windows 2016.

Personal

Skype for Business Launch At Start Up Minimized Group Policy GPO

You think that having Skype launch minimized at start up would be an easy and well known Group Policy ADMX file or such… but no no no.

PersonalWindows

Dism.exe Cleaning Up Invalid Images

After finishing editing and wim image using dism I was being left with Windows still thinking the image was still mounted somehow and not able to remount the image file.

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Using Powershell To Get Windows Edition

Powershell: (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem).Caption Results in output like: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

PowershellTech solutionsWindows

[Solved] WDS Driver Filters Not Working

Like many people it seems I’ve been scratching my head as to why WDS’s Driver Package Filters were not matching my hardware when imaging a machine that I’d created a driver package group for.

ExchangePowershell

Powershell list all properties of an object

Some powershell get commands only output a handful of the object properties get-CalendarProcessing being one such command, than returns just one property.

Active directoryMicrosoftTech solutions

Get Boot Time For all computers in an OU – Powershell

I wrote the following script enumerates an OU and then looks up the last boot time for each computer.

Ms officeTech solutions

SOLVED: False cursor position when entering and editing text in a cell in Excel

Similar to this article I was experiencing a false cursor position and the cursor position and text shifting when editing versus when viewing the cell

LifehacksPersonalTips

5 Simple Daily Tasks That Will Improve Your Productivity

Simply and concisely put: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/304502 After watching Jeff Bezos here: https://www.

Linux

Display content of files with filenames

Use the following linux command to display the contents of several files with their filenames prefixed.

LinuxUbuntu

FIXED: Varnish Caching Proxy Expected an action, ‘if’, ‘{‘ or ‘}’

So it seems Varnish 4.0 and 4.1 (more may be affected this is the limit of my testing presently) has a bug where some whitespace can through it from recognising valid configuration such as below

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