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Getting good performance with Windows 11 Pro running under Libvirt/KVM on Linux requires some special configs, especially if one wants to enable WSL2 (which requires ‘Nested virtualization’). This is a brief cheatsheet on the required configuration.

A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.

This article details using the XCA GUI for creating private SSL certificates for enabling end-to-end SSL on non-public servers.

For Power BI, if your data source does not already have a date dimension table, Microsoft strongly recommends adding one in Power Query M-code. Here we show how to do that for a fiscal year date table.

For Windows PowerShell, adding a security privilege to a user takes more effort than one would expect. Here we show a method with no third party dependencies. Discussion Basically we use PowerShell’s Add-Type cmdlet to add .NET (C#) code which calls a Win32 API function (LsaAddAccountRights) to the script’s context. We then instantiate a wrapper class and call a method which calls the LsaAddAccountRights function (with necessary setup and cleanup).