Month: April 2021

I am always looking for that link https://account.azure.com/organization that allows me to create a New Azure Active Directory for test customer or for new customer. It is very helpfully for Azure Passes that after that can be activated via https://www.microsoftazurepass.com/ Please remember doing a new Tenant in Private Mode in your browser. Post daje, aby zapamiętać link, lub go szybko wyszukać do zakładania nowego Azure Active Directory dla potrzeb testowych, bądź dla nowego klienta. https://account.azure.com/organization Następnie możemy aktywować nowego Triala w Azure lub wykorzystać Azure Pass poprzez stronę https://www.microsoftazurepass.com/. Aby nie stracić możliwości utworzenia nowego Trial’a lub wykorzystania Azure Pass wszystkie czynności należy wykonywać poprzez tryb prywatny w przeglądarce.

This method is not supported by Microsoft, but it is working well and allows you to Upgrade Windows 2012R2 to Windows 2019, here is step by step. Disable BitLocker (Suspend-BitLocker -MountPoint “C:” -RebootCount 0) if enabled of course. Download Windows Server 2019 – e.g. from https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Windows%20Server%202012%20R2&pgroup=. Unzip .iso file using 7-zip. Run command prompt as a administrator and change directory to unziped .iso with Windows Server2019. Run command: setup.exe /auto upgrade /DynamicUpdate enable /pkey WMDGN-G9PQG-XVVXX-R3X43-63DFG /showoobe none and follow installer. Btw. You noticed that Azure uses KMS for Activating Windows – here semoe more keys: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/jj612867(v=ws.11) And enable BitLocker again via GUI (right clink on disk).

Everyone knows that we can use Azure File Share Service as a Shared Network Drive using SMB protocol. But what software use to transfer files, just normal Control-C, Control-V via explorer is not so efficient. One of the Azure native tool is Azure File Sync – but it is also not so efficient during first migration and moreover transfer fromm Azure File Share to On-premise is once per day. My favorite alternatives: https://freefilesync.org/ (two way) https://fastcopy.jp/en/ (one way) http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/dsynchronize/dsynchronize.html (uses NTFS journal for detect changes, Two way)  

Qualys and Security Center reported this: 91682-Microsoft .NET Framework Security Updates for October 2020 Description Impact An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability can disclose contents of an affected system’s memory. Remediation is quite easy just update using Windows Update, until you have not Bit-Locker Enabled. Yaa… I do not know why, but after disabling bitlocker and restart machine 3 times this issue gonna away. Command to Suspend BitLocker for 5 reboots: Suspend-BitLocker -MountPoint “C:” -RebootCount 5

25 years ago in Windows 95/98 time, I remember a great, but not popular tool for desktop automation it is still active here: https://www.winbatch.com/ It allows record mouse movements and does repetitive tasks. But it was also including his own very simple language similar to basic as far I remember. There is a library of examples also, and what is important is almost 30 years of experience. Some other competitors are: https://www.perfectautomation.com/ https://www.autohotkey.com/ https://www.autoitscript.com/ – it is popular nowadays also. Nowadays Microsoft starting to provide similar tools, so I think it is worthy of investigating and the best value of it is remote execution – via the cloud, code repository, and tight integration with the operating system. Some useful links: Power Automate Desktop AI Builder Power Virtual Agents Power Apps and Microsoft Teams Power Apps – it is quite old, but can be answered for child Scratch and App inventor – just see https://powerapps4kids.com/. In my opinion, the above tools should be included in compulsory computer science studies, as well as Scratch and AppInventor.