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Deleting an Azure / Microsoft 365 / Entra ID Tenant

Note: This is notes on an unsuccessful Tenant Delete I was using a Macbook Pro with Powershell 7.5.0 to run these commands. In the end I couldn't delete the Tenant with an error message as follows: Unable to delete tenant Unable to delete tenant Toggen Test. Known...

Puppeteer Chrome Installation

I'm using Browsershot which uses Puppeteer & Chromium to generate PDF's When you install Puppeteer by default the chromium instance is installed to $HOME/.cache/puppeteer/chrome-headless-shell/linux-127.0.6533.88 and...

Windows 11 Pro Restart becomes a lot Slower than Normal

Just found my Windows 11 Pro Workstation with Hyper-V Role installed was taking approximately a 1 minute and 10 seconds to begin the restart, which felt like a lot longer than usual. Tested and found if I chose Shutdown it was still virtually immediate. What was the...

Formatting a USB Key with diskpart

Just had to do a BIOS update with MSI's M-Flash BIOS utility and needed a fat32 formatted USB key. This is how to do it with diskpart Commands in an Administrative Terminal diskpart list disk select disk 2 rem (or whichever is your USB key) rem Important don't get the...

Migrate Data Out of the Microsoft 365 Cloud

Tools from Synology NAS to allow exporting data out of the Microsoft 365 cloud Synology CloudSync You will need the login details of the user to export their OneDrive and Sharepoint Sites, copy that Synced CloudSync data to an USB or external drive and hand to the...

Install node in /usr/local

Goto https://nodejs.org/en/download Select Linux and x64 if that is what you are running Copy the Download link https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.15.0/node-v22.15.0-linux-x64.tar.xz and download the file Have a look at what is in the archive tar -tvf...