🐝 Why Flyoobe?
Originally, Flyby11 was a simple patcher to remove the restrictions stopping you from installing Windows 11 (24H2) on unsupported hardware.
Old PC? No TPM, no Secure Boot, unsupported CPU? Flyby11 let you install Windows 11 anyway.

After helping thousands upgrade, one thing became clear:
Bypassing checks is only half the battle.
We needed a full setup solution — one that respects user choices instead of Microsoft's defaults.

Flyoobe was the next step:

• Skip the fluff
• Remove the junk
• Take full control from first boot

Because your PC should work for you, not the other way around.
Flyoobe keeps the original idea alive and pushes it even further.

This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978.

• Delprof2
• SetACL Studio
• SetACL
• SendToSplunk
• DiskLED
• FileIOTest
• SessionProtocolInfo
• ...

This article explains how to install a Samba v4 Active Directory domain controller in a Docker container. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with dockerized or virtualized services.

This is a ACMEv2 client for Windows that aims to be very simple to start with, but powerful enough to grow into almost every scenario.

• A very simple interface to create and install certificates on a local IIS server
• A more advanced interface for many other use cases, including Apache and Exchange
• Automatically creates a scheduled task to renew certificates when needed
• Get certificates with wildcards (*.example.com), international names (证书.example.com), OCSP Must Staple extension (optional).
• Re-use private keys for DANE, use EC crypto or bring your own CSR
• Advanced toolkit for DNS, HTTP and TLS validation: SFTP/FTPS, acme-dns, Azure, Route53, Cloudflare and many more…
• Store your certificates where and how you want them: Windows, IIS Central Store, .pem files, .pfx file or KeyVault
• Compatible with all popular ACME services, including Let’s Encrypt, ZeroSSL, DigiCert, Sectigo, Buypass, Keyon and others…
• Completely unattended operation from the command line
• Other forms of automation through manipulation of .json files
• Write your own Powershell .ps1 scripts to handle installation and validation
• Build your own plugins with C#

clipscreen is a simple application that creates a virtual monitor that mirrors a portion of your screen. A green rectangle highlights the specified area.

Why's this useful? You can use any screen sharing tool (Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Jitsi Meet, etc.) to share the virtual monitor instead of your entire screen. No need to share individual windows and having to switch between them, just move any window you wannt to share into the green border.

You can use Docker with the Dev Containers extension in a few ways:

• Docker installed locally.
• Docker installed on another machine or remote environment.
  • You only need Docker installed on the remote host, rather than Docker installed locally.
• Other Docker compliant CLIs, installed locally or in a remote environment.
  • For instance, Rancher Desktop is another way to install Docker, providing container management and Kubernetes on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Since Rancher Desktop supports Docker CLI via Moby, you can use Dev Containers extension with it. You may learn how to get started in Rancher Desktop's guide.
  • Dev Containers interacts with CLIs; it makes no assumptions about how a container engine works and does not interact with container engines or daemons directly.
  • Note that other Docker compliant CLIs are not officially supported.

Continue reading to learn alternate ways you can install and use Docker or a Docker compliant CLI.

• VSCode extension: Dev Containers
• GitHub - microsoft/vscode-remote-release: Visual Studio Code Remote Development: Open any folder in WSL, in a Docker container, or on a remote machine using SSH and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.
• Visual Studio Code Remote Development
• Developing inside a Container using Visual Studio Code Remote Development

Make every word matter

Welcome to the Microsoft Writing Style Guide, your guide to writing style and terminology for all communication—whether an app, a website, or a white paper. If you write about computer technology, this guide is for you.

Today, lots of people are called upon to write about technology. We need a simple, straightforward style guide that everyone can use, regardless of their role. And it needs to reflect Microsoft's modern approach to voice and style: warm and relaxed, crisp and clear, and ready to lend a hand.

Here's what you will find in the Microsoft Writing Style Guide:

Top 10 tips for mastering Microsoft style and voice

Bias-free communication

Global communications

Robocopy is a Windows tool that specialises in copying processes and backups. The programme is controlled with special commands and parameters that are entered in the Windows command prompt. However, less experienced Windows users do not necessarily have to resort to the command line (cmd.exe).

Webseiten setzen nicht nur Cookie für sich selbst sondern gerade Webseiten mit Werbung binden Inhalte von anderen URls ein, die ihrerseits auch Cookies setzen. Diese "Unart" macht Internet-Benutzer quasi gläsern und seit 2018 haben Gesetzte die Betreiber gezwungen, sich das Einverständnis zu holen (Cookie-Banner). Mittlerweile erlauben aber auch normale Browser ohne AddOns so genannte "3rd Party Cookies" zu blocken. Das funktioniert aber nicht immer, denn auch kommerzielle Produkte binden heute zusätzlichen Code von anderen Webseiten ein. Dazu gehört z.B. auch Microsoft Teams.

When using VS Code and flake8, line width of python code is by default limited to 79 characters.

For people like me, 79 characters are not enough. How can we increase it?

• VSC Setting python.linting.flake8Args

  • add item --max-line-length=80

• Update VS Code configuration file :

  {
  "python.linting.flake8Args": [
  "--max-line-length=80"
  ]
  }

#Design principles

The Azure SDK should be designed to enhance the productivity of developers connecting to Azure services. Other qualities (such as completeness, extensibility, and performance) are important but secondary.

The Azure SDK for Python is composed solely of many independent libraries, which are listed on the Python SDK package index.

All the libraries share certain common characteristics and usage patterns, such as installation and the use of inline JSON for object arguments.

VSCodium is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode

Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.

NOTE: This solution should only be used in non-production environments as a method to get familiar with Ansible. For production use, I recommend installing Ansible on a dedicated Linux server.

An automated deployment tool is a must have for any IT environment. In my lab, that’s Ansible. I’ve used Ansible in my lab to automate VM deployment/destruction, adding SSH keys for remote access to my servers, joining/leaving AD domain, and monitoring the newly deployed VMs. This is very useful as I frequently deploy/destroy VMs for testing a specific use case.

For a Windows admin, Ansible can seem daunting… For one, it runs on linux. Second, it’s based off of Python. I’m here to tell you, it’s not that difficult. In fact, did you know that Ansible is one of the few configuration management tools out there that can easily/natively use PowerShell code?

In this post, I’m going to review the steps involved in getting Ansible installed & running on Windows Server 2019. While install times may vary due to lab resources and internet speed, I’m able to complete the steps outlined below for installing Ansible in a little over 20 minutes.

Microsofts bekannten Verzeichnisdienst Active Directory gibt es inzwischen auch in der Cloud des Herstellers. Golem.de zeigt, wie er dort funktioniert.

Unternehmen haben viele Gründe, auf zentrale Verzeichnisdienste für die Verwaltung ihrer Dienste und Benutzer zu setzen. Besonders die Verwaltung von Benutzerzugängen spielt dabei eine herausragende Rolle: Es ist im Jahr 2021 nicht mehr zeitgemäß oder sinnvoll, jedes System als Insel mit eigenen Benutzerzugängen zu betrachten.

To send messages to the Microsoft teams channel, we will use the requests module.

Sometimes the size of the ondisk transaction area does not fit the update package size and will fail on reboot.
You can circumvent this by extend this area with the command before update and reboot the system:

fsutil resource setlog maxextents 100 C:\

Microsoft Docs: fsutil resource …