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IT related tech tips since 2006Download an Azure Function App for Development in VS Code
If you start with creating an Azure Function App in Azure and then want to switch to local development here are the steps to download and import the function app into VSCode This does not cover installing the Azure Function Core extensions but that is covered here...
Convert Lets Encrypt Cert to pfx for import into HP Printer
Create a cert using the dns challenge # use dns challenge to create cert sudo certbot certonly -d test.toggen.com.au --manual --preferred-challenges dns # chane to the location of the created certs cd /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.toggen.com.au # convert to pfx openssl...
2nd Monitor not Working after Kernel Upgrade
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with a 460.80 Nvidia Driver Just did an upgrade from 5.8.0-59-generic to 5.8.0-63-generic kernel last night and this morning my monitor connected to the VGA port on the card failed to work sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible...
Unifi LAN LOCAL IN OUT
This is a graphic I use to figure out which section to add the firewall rules to in the Unifi UDM/USG controller. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003173168-UniFi-UDM-USG-Introduction-to-Firewall-Rules
Which Insider Preview channel do I need to get Windows 11?
Not working I first chose "Beta Channel (Recommended)" and did a Check for updates and no Windows 11 option appeared Working Then I chose "Dev Channel" and checked for updates and Windows 11 appears!!! Settings in a VMWare Guest so you can install Windows 11 Insider...
VMWare Workstation Pro on Ubuntu 20.04 – Running an encrypted VM at login
Create a dot desktop file ( ~/.config/autostart/start-windows-10.desktop) [Desktop Entry] Name=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login GenericName=windows-10-start Comment=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login Exec=vmrun -T ws -vp "Your-VM-Password" start...
Intune Powershell Scripts – Encoding Gotcha
Just had a powershell script that was failing When I went in to the registry key that stores the results of the script running I saw some corrupted characters The problem turned out to be I had a file that was encoded in UTF-16LE So I saved the powershell script as...
Send-MailMessage not able to send an email through Office 365 using App Password
Send-MailMessage & App Password Doesn't Work So today I tried to test SMTP Auth using Powershell $appPassword = 'my_app_password_here' $From = "[email protected]" $To = "[email protected]" [securestring]$secStringPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $appPassword...
Greenshot – Makes documentation easier
I take lots of screenshot per day. Greenshot is a handy utility that makes that very easy. I find it useful for: capturing the settings in configuration dialogs, creating step by step how to's and documenting before and after changes....