Active Directory is an incredibly powerful tool that pretty much every business relies on for user authentication and management. That doesn’t mean that people set it up properly though, and Microsoft has provided a very good guide on how to avoid those mistakes.

One of the biggest and most welcome changes to the Windows 10 1809 update and in Windows Server 2019 was the addition of the OpenSSH Client and OpenSSH Server features. Certainly, this was something that I never expected to happen, but it is a welcome change.

The New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed its flyby of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69) at 12:33am on January 1, 2019. So far there has not been a lot of information released due to the slow (but steady) retrieval of data from the spacecraft, but the initial images are amazing.

When I decided that I wanted to start a dedicated website/blog earlier in 2018, I intended to use it to showcase what I was working on and what I have accomplished overall. I find that I work through a lot of problems, and I never share the solutions with people, which is one of the main reasons that I wanted to create this site. I also wanted to use this site to show what I was interested in with subjects other than IT, which I ended up not doing (even though I had several ideas, I never posted anything). I ended up not posting as often as I wanted to, but that will be something that I intend to change in 2019.

I recently ran into an issue with my ThinkPad while trying to run VMware Workstation 15.0 when I had the Hyper-V role installed on Windows 10 Pro 1809. Having VMware installed at the same time as having the Hyper-V role installed is not an issue, but it is not possible to run both at the same time.

I found a good blog article about the changes that were made to the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Windows 10 1809 update (or whatever it will be called when they eventually release it again) on the Windows Command Line Blog.

The Windows Kernel Internals team posted a very interesting article about the architecture of the Windows Kernel and on its ability to scale up from embedded IoT devices to servers running the Azure datacentres.

I wanted to do a follow up my previous post about Windows on ARM since I have had some recent hands-on experience with this platform. I was able to obtain a Lenovo Miix 630 through a contract that I am working on, and I have been using it in a daily basis for the last 2 months. I had wanted to give this platform a fair chance, and here is what I found out.