Windows Adding Cygwin to Windows Terminal (Preview) I'm liking the Windows Terminal preview more and more, especially now that it doesn't crash every time I close it without exiting PowerShell explicitly. Despite the advancements in WSL, I'm still more likely to use Cygwin when I want to run *NIX utilities on Windows.
PowerShell PowerShell find Email Addresses in AD Users and Contacts Recently we had a user from one of our global offices saying they're unable to receive emails from our staff due to duplicate ProxyAddresses in our AD. IDFix was not useful, PowerShell was.
Microsoft Step by Step Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS After years running at 95% RAM 30% idle CPU, I finally got approval to implement a Hyper-V cluster at work. With no money for IT, it had to be done on the cheap. This meant an entry-level SAN, no 10GBe, and existing gear where possible.
Exchange 2013 Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Trying to install Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 is likely to present some problems by default. Unless you've already installed the IIS components required by Exchange you'll get an extremely unhelpful error message when trying to install, saying that it cannot be installed on a client-based OS.
bashrc Migrating to OpenIndiana I recently had a bunch of problems running ZFS on Ubuntu, and so since that is the FS I've decided on using for the foreseeable future, I wanted to move to something FOSS that was actually built to use it. I decided to go with OpenSolaris, and then found that
ACL Modifying files over CIFS or SMB (Samba) shares on OpenIndiana 151a I was hit by an apparent bug in OpenIndiana that was fixed in an older release of Solaris which doesn't fully set permissions when you use the default chmod in OI. Because of this, I couldn't delete or modify files via the CIFS shares, and possibly the AFP shares. I
