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Managed Service Accounts, gMSA and Active Directory
One of the more interesting new features of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is Managed Service Accounts. MSA’s allow you to create an account in Active Directory that…
SSL or TLS – on Firewalls and Load Balancers – layer 5 or layer 6
For layer 7 firewalls, how does SSL / TLS exactly work? Since SSL lives in layer 6 (or 5) – but not 7, how does it even understand layer 7…
Twitter policy against defamation
Day 1 - A twitter handle named @sanden came out and personally attacked my name. They made up the following tweet: Tweet ID 1045547615318880257 @TudorFan2 @VarmaAnuj @TerryK59 @David_Bossie @DonaldJTrumpJr @realDonaldTrump…
git basics
Repos versus Branches – A repo can have as many ; And you can have multiple REPOS (typically one per product). Branching Best Practices Master (Prod Branch) ---> Dev…
Your windows license will expire soon–activation message
Windows 10 SolutionLaunch Cmd Prompt as Adminwmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKeyGo into settings—>Update and Security –>Activation - Enter the key retrieved aboveThat’s That should activate Activation MessagesIf you want to…
Add ics file in web outlook
Save your .ICS event form the email it was sent from to somewhere you can access it Go to O365/OWA ; Select Add Calendar from menu Select option "From File"…
Right Click stopped working–Windows Context Menu Issues
For me, the right click on the AWS WorkFolder Sync App stopped working. Here’s what I did to resolve it…(this should work for other apps, same registry key location) Type…
MariaDB auto update statistics
To check if auto update is enabled on statistics, try this command show variables like '%metadata%'; If you see an output such as: innodb_stats_auto_recalc = 1, you're all If you…
Abstract Factory Pattern vs. Dependency Injection
This is a frequent misunderstanding – Why use Dependency Injection when you can ask a factory for your object and have it returned to you? The answer is that DI…
Technical Architect, San Antonio
Anuj Varma spent 17 years as a .NET architect with experience in the Houston oil and gas industry, prior to becoming a cloud architect. More recently, he has been fortunate…