PSA, repairing the Crowdstrike BSoD on Azure-hosted VMs Hey! If you’re like us and have a bunch of servers in Azure running Crowdstrike, the past 8 hours have probably SUCKED for you! The only guidance is to boot in safe mode, but how the heck do you do that on an Azure VM?? I wanted …
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I’m not a fan of Co-Pilot. Jerk.
Disable CoPilot/AI features on Windows 11, you can follow these steps: To allow it back into your life follow the Disable steps and change Enabled back to Not Configured.
Updating MikroTik from terminal
I’m always forgetting the commands so here’s the short easy version From the Terminal menu system/check-installation#hopefully it says “status: installation is ok” #if you’re upgrading from 6 to 7 it needs to know that.. If not skip the below line. system package update set channel=upgrade #check for updatessystem package update check-for-updates #get the updatesystem package …
Threads added the friends thing
Thank you Threads. Now please stop having a dozen sex bots follow me a day. Unless you make real life sex bots. Then we need to talk about a subscription service.
Threads keeping you from your friends.
I don’t understand Threads at all. It’s a social media site that you can add friends to but has 0 ability to see what your friends have posted besides going to each individual profile. How the hell was that overlooked but there’s a whole algorithm to show you what’s trending and what your friends have …
Fart jokes are always funny.
pfSense on Hyper-V running slow?
Obviously I switched back to Hyper-V but my environment is built for 2gig internet. Speedtests were south of 1meg… So on each Hyper-V host I ran this powershell command for each external vmswitch to clear it up.. Set-VMSwitch -Name “The switch name” -EnableSoftwareRsc $false Like Set-VMSwitch -Name External -EnableSoftwareRsc $falseSet-VMSwitch -Name Bridge -EnableSoftwareRsc $false
Exchange Online easy forward rule
A really basic single line way to create new mail flow email redirection with Exchange Online, probably onprem too. The to address can be internal or external and there will be an alert that the rule has been created. From your favorite Exchange CLI. I personally like from the Azure portal open the CLI and …
Exchange Online mailbox too big?
Patience is important, messages might not start vanishing for a few hours but quota is freed up. Hoping you have Exchange Online Plan 2 license so you really have the over 50 GB available. Set-Mailbox thebigbox@windrammer.net -ProhibitSendQuota 98GB -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 99GB -IssueWarningQuota 97GB Clean up things? Again, it may take a few hours to see the …