Howtos

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.

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).

Once you are sure everything is correct for the initial boot into your configured system, commit (store) your changes.

Disallowing SSH login with only a username and password is a well known security best practise, therefore we implement it.