Building images on Azure with Packer I have discovered some things that might be useful to others: Cannot locate resource group means something else Error when doing Azure Managed Disk builds: Build ‘azure-arm’ errored: Cannot locate the managed image resource group <your RG> What Packer really means is that your credentials are wrong. Check your …
Category Archives: Windows
But I _am_ on the Internet!
For some time I have had some strange symptoms on Windows 10 systems when they were accessing the Internet over a VPN connection. In my case the VPN provider was TigerVPN. This issue is unrelated to the provider, but is instead caused by the Windows networking stack when used with the OpenVPN software (which many …
A computer by any other name… would be better;how to change the hostname of a Windows 10 computer during setup
Introduction Over the years the setup process for the Windows OS has been streamlined and optimized a lot. It used to be that you have to input a lot of information throughout the installation and the actual transferring of the OS files onto the hard drive took a long time. Now, the data copying has …
Fun with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Ever since the Windows Subsystem for Linux/Bash on Ubuntu on Windows feature in Windows 10 I have been playing around with it. Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and Microsoft, made the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) together, and it enables bash, which is the de facto default CLI shell on Linux, to …
Error 0x80070001 on Windows 10 when trying to install a new app
This is slightly off topic for me, but because I spent quite a bit of time on figuring it out and could not find this documented anywhere else, I thought I would write it up quickly. At some point I could no longer install any new apps from the Windows Store on my Surface 3 …
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Connecting to an Azure AD joined machine with an Azure AD user account over Remote Desktop
Introduction Windows 10 introduces the ability to join a computer to the cloud directory service Azure AD. This is very similar to the traditional domain join, where you join a computer to an Active Directory domain, run on-premises by one or more Domain Controllers. Both operations lets the computer operate within a common security context …
The Case of the Missing Technical Preview build
I am trying out the Windows 10 Technical Preview, and have been running build 9926 for some time. Today (19032015) Microsoft released build 10041 and I installed it immediately, of course. Not surprisingly I had some problems which were so bad that I reverted back to the 9926 build. I later figured out that it …
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How to opt in to Microsoft Update with PowerShell
For Windows to retreive updates from Microsoft Update, as opposed to Windows Update (which is the default), you have to opt in. This is usually done through the Windows Update GUI by selecting “Get updates for other Microsoft Products”: This becomes tedious very quickly so here’s how you can do it with PowerShell: https://gist.github.com/morgansimonsen/8039966 To …
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Data Deduplication on Windows 8 Pro
Due to the modular nature of the Windows platform, it is actually possible to move features between SKUs, and even between server and client. A user at the My Digital Life forum has experiemented with this and has extracted the necessary packages to run Windows Server 2012’s Data deduplication feature on Windows 8 Pro! If …
What’s special about the builtin Administrator account?
Every installation of Windows based on the Windows NT code base has a builtin admin account called Administrator. Every installation of Active Directory Directoy Services also has a builtin admin account called Administrator. (If you are running a version of Windows other than English, your accounts may be named something else.) This account provides complete access …
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