Plain Coffee · Antoon Bouw
Notes from the cloud, hands on the keyboard.
Microsoft Foundry, Azure, infrastructure as code, Microsoft 365, and the occasional unfiltered take. Written for engineers who’d rather read than scroll.
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AI on your own terms: a deep dive into Foundry Local
We’ve grown accustomed to the idea that AI lives in the cloud; you send a prompt to a server, and you get…
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How AI can finally drive the chip industry to new heights
While everyone talks about what AI can do, less attention is given to how AI drives (much needed) innovation in the chip…
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Edge stable goes live before official announcement
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] When you Google ‘Edge Stable’ today, you’ll get the official download link for the stable version of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge.I downloaded it and saw it had the same Chromium version-number als the beta-channel, which most likely means it will be released soon. Here’s a screenshot for when…
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Automatically clean folders in batch (Powershell Scripts)
Introduction This script is made for automatically cleaning folders. Getting Started You can create a scheduled task to automatically clean a folder. If you create a scheduled task using Auto_cleanup.ps1, you can clean a single folder (recursively). You can use the Path argument to define a path, and use the daystokeep argument to define the…
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Why I really like the Windows 10 April Update
After working for a week with a preview of Windows 10 1803 (which will be called the April update), yesterday I had to swap my Surface Pro and I went back to the stable build. The first thing I miss after going back: I used Timeline a lot: Every time I used Windows-Tab to switch,…
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Read all services and scheduled tasks in your server environment (including Server 2003)
At one point we found out that many system administrators had used their own administrator account for Windows Services and scheduled tasks. This became a problem only when a few colleagues decided to leave for another company. Accounts were turned off and all kinds of services fell out. Among other things, an SQL server that…
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Troubleshooting Guide to WSUS
I have had an issue with WSUS on Windows Server 2016 which resulted into computers not reporting correctly to WSUS. Thinking that I have configured everything correctly because computers where connecting to WSUS (they targeted the right WSUS groups from the Group Policy in the WSUS Console), they where not reporting their status to WSUS.…
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Sync AD Groups with Microsoft Teams (BETA)
Microsoft Teams doesn’t allow you to define a group for membership (dynamically). When you add an Azure AD group to a Team, all users will be added once. Once someone is added to that group, it won’t be added to the team automatically. For this I created this script. You define an Active Directory group…
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Problems with WSUS on Server 2016
Yesterday I have had an issue with computers not reporting to a newly installed WSUS server. However targeting worked (computers where placed in the right Computer folders in WSUS), computers wouldn’t report. When I looked into the ReportingEvents log in C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution folder, it showed a error “Windows Update Client failed to detect with error 0x8024401c”. However this error wasn’t consistent (sometimes it did…
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Deploying an RDS farm in an Server Core environment
Note: The RD Web Access role requires Desktop Experience; In Server 2016 you can’t change between core and desktop anymore. First of all, I have made a script that will install and configure all roles and tools. It installs the management tools on the server which the script runs on (from this server you can…
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Saving on certificates in an multi-tenant Exchange environment
By default, alot of companies buy certificates for Exchange based on the domains that are added to Exchange. While a company is expanding, it can be very expensive. In an organization using enormous amounts of domains, it can be challenging to keep up with certificates. These issues you don’t have with Office 365, since Microsoft…
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User interaction script for SCCM
This script (made by me) allows you to use user-interaction to notify your users about an installation or update of software. It also allows you to push an installation (with administrator priviliges), while still including the user in the process. If there is no interaction within 20 seconds per notification, it will go on. You…