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How-To Technical

Query SQL for Version, Edition and Number of CPU’s

The following will give you information about an Microsoft SQL Server instance which you may find helpful in determining the version, edition and number of cpu’s assigned to a SQL server. In my case I am using Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Express but this will work on all  versions of Microsoft SQL Server   SELECT […]

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News

Microsoft to Support SSH in Windows

The popular tool and must have for the day to day systems administrator is SSH and its finally on its way to the Windows world officially supported.  This is awesome.   Additional Information For more information on SSH please go to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4251.txt For information on OpenSSH go to: http://www.openssh.com/index.html

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Personal

Unconditional Love

“Even After All this time The Sun never says to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look What happens With a love like that, It lights the whole sky.” – Hafez (Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī)

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How-To Software Technical

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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TunnelBear – Simple, Private and Free

TunnelBear has just launched a Chrome extension that helps to protect your privacy on a Chromebook, Android, iPhone, iPad, PC & Mac TunnelBear is a Canadian company famous for making super easy to use privacy tools. They specialize in VPN services that allow your phone and computers to be secure when using public WiFi hotspots. […]

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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 […]