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Windows Server 2025 Diagnostic Data
Trash. This kind of shit boils my blood. Why would any company pay, quite handsomely might I add, to use software that can not be controlled once installed? This isn’t some cloud hosted app or service, this is Windows Server. That customers run on THEIR OWN HARDWARE. Possibly in a secure enclave, who knows? Why…
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KB5046740 Breaks CAC Authentication to AVD
If you’re struggling to log into AVD from a Windoze… ahem, Windows computer with your CAC card… here’s the likely culprit: Update KB5046740. From this thread on Reddit, it seems like quite a few others have been running into the issue. I tripped over it this morning, myself. It’s a quick easy fix assuming you…
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See you around, Apple
I wrote a blog post a short while back about why I loved Linux. I waxed nostalgic for a while about my history with the OS and how it impacted my life. In the same post, I talked about my then-current setup utilizing a MacBook Pro, but I managed to get a bit off track…
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Fixing janky Spaces behavior on MacOS with Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Remote Desktop App Streaming
Since joining Microsoft I’ve worked remotely for nearly 9 years. My current setup consists of a MacBook Pro, a Thunderbolt 4 Dock, and an LG 34WK95U-W (which is an UltraWide 5K2K Nano IPS LED Monitor). I run a Windows 11 ARM VM via Parallels full-screen on the MacBook (basically for Teams and Outlook, so I…
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Making W3-Total-Cache work with Storage Accounts in Azure Government
So you thought you were going to be slick and save some time by using the Marketplace template to deploy “WordPress on App Service” in Azure Government? You likely even selected the ‘Recommended’ tick-box to offload media content to Azure Blob Storage via the template add-on section and then hit “Review and Create!” But when…
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Why Linux?
Because Windows and MacOS both suck. I’ve dabbled with Linux since I was a kid. I remember asking my uncle to buy a copy of Red Hat Linux (I think it was Red Hat 5?) on CD from eBay for me when I was just a middle-school aged nerd. We had painfully slow dial-up internet…
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Disable Azure CLI Telemetry Collection
Pfffffffft! Dafuq? No thank you, Microsoft. That’s getting #disabled right TF now. (See Microsoft official documentation)
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Parallels Desktop VM Isolation
I’m fascinated by the logic here. Why is this experience not inverted? Why is the user only prompted for confirmation when ENABLING isolation (because: why would I want said VM to be able to read the contents of my clipboard?) but not when disabling it? Isn’t the isolation the entire point of the VM? 🤔
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Cleaning Azure File Shares with Azure Functions
One of the complaints I have about using FSLogix to store AVD User Profiles on Azure File Shares is that there’s no native way to clean up the stale / unneeded VHDs once users move on. If you search the web, you’ll come across some curiously misleading examples that discuss setting up an Azure Function…
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Azure Cloud Challenge: Lime Survey
Last week I worked with a team in Germany to deliver an Azure Hackathon. During the hackathon, we decided to create a cloud challenge for the team to work through. These challenges are difficult and require independent critical thinking. The requirements below were developed with the attendees, after which we worked at the whiteboard to…