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Server 2012 R2 Data Deduplication on Windows 8.1

Talking a late walk around features of Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the features that interested me was the deduplicaiton feature. Naturally I want to run this on my Windows desktop. So my journey began. Warning these steps and method are no way supported by Microsoft; use at your own risk. To pull this off […]

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PowerShell for Office 365

Hiya; Have you moved into Office 365? Oh you did! Then you are already aware of all the fun things you can do and some of the ones you can’t without the use of powershell commands Thankfully Microsoft and the Office 365 team have released a new site titled PowerShell for Office 365 which targets Office 365 […]

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Back on vCenter in my home lab

Oh yeah; anyone else have the warm fuzzy feeling right now; Hashtags: #‎VMware‬ ‪#‎vCenter‬ ‪#‎ESXi‬   All in my home lab. Once again I have the management capabilities over systems that I prefer. VMware vCenter 6 is awesome and I am in love with the web interface Next — Storage upgrade 3.0. That will be 16TB […]

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Tech Short: Disable Lync / Skype for Business User

Here is a quick example of how to disable to Lync / Skype for Business User Open Windows Power Shell –  In my case I use Windows Powershell ISE – These steps need to take place on the Lync server host itself. # Example: disables Lync user account # Lync now known as Skype for Business […]

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Personal Software Technical

Proxmox – Unable to delete KVM Virtual Machine

First time administrating a proxmox system (no RTFM for me) when I ran into an issue of being unable to delete a virtual machine.  The issue itself may have been caused by me removing the storage before deleting the virtual machine. The error message: TASK ERROR: storage ‘proxmoxHDD’ does not exists I attempted using the qm […]

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Spartan Falls to the Sword of Microsoft Edge

Agreed my post title is a bit dramatic; I am still rolling with it. Announced in Build 2015, Microsoft Edge will be the successor to the Project known as Spartan Microsoft Edge was made specifically for Windows 10. It will have features such as built in note taking and sharing and will also have Microsoft’s Cortana […]