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How to Securely Store and Share Files on Cloud Services

Christian Saborio August 1, 2016 No Comments

Services such as DropBox and OneDrive offer encryption when transferring information from your computer to their servers. This means that if the transferred data is compromised the thief would not…

DD/MM/YYYY to MM/DD/YYYY in Excel

Christian Saborio January 24, 2015 10 Comments

What date do you think of with when you see the following date format: 16/3/2014 If you are in the United States, you are probably thinking “does not compute”. That day…

Converting a VHD/VHDX to a Wim File

Christian Saborio October 22, 2014 2 Comments

While getting ready for an event that will be staged completely with WDS, I ran into issues capturing a VHD file to a WIM file using WDS. My guess is…

Enabling RDP in Windows 7 Home Premium

Christian Saborio September 15, 2014 No Comments

A client’s PC was on the verge of collapse: constantly crashing and blue screening every other day. I told him that it would be best to get a new machine,…

Awesome Utility to Boot from VHD

Christian Saborio October 31, 2013 No Comments

If you are ever in the process of accessing the command prompt and using BCD to created bootable VHDs for your machines, then you might want to have a look…

How to Set xdebug in Mac OS X with phpStorm and MAMP in 23 Easy Steps

Christian Saborio September 27, 2013 No Comments

It’s amazing how spoiled we tend to get with products such as Xcode and Visual Studio. I’ve gotten accustomed to debugging a web application by hitting F5 and off…

Installing .Net Framework 3.5 Remotely on WS2012

Christian Saborio July 18, 2013 No Comments

Here is a quick way of installing the .Net Framework 3.5 on various computers running Windows Server 2012 using the command prompt. We’re assuming psexec is installed on the computer from…

How to correctly invoke a PowerShell Function that has the same name in two Libraries

Christian Saborio February 18, 2013 No Comments

I am currently authoring a PowerShell reporting script that exclusively uses functions from the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V API. When I imported the module for System Center Virtual Machine Manager,…

How to Remotely Disconnect a User in Windows Server

Christian Saborio January 10, 2013 1 Comment

Some Windows installations (like upgrading Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012) will not let you upgrade if there is a user logged on the machine. Even if the…

How to backup VMs using Hyper-V Replicas in Windows Server 2012

Christian Saborio November 1, 2012 1 Comment

There are tons of options for backing up your Hyper-V VMs, our favorite being Altaro Hyper-V Backup. However, if you are not ready to shell out $500 for a license…

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