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Three quick commands to turn on/off and check BitLocker on Windows 10 Professional and Enterprise. You have to run the following commands in an Administrative terminal. To turn on BitLokcer against volume C: manage-bde -on C: -RecoveryPassword -skiphardwaretest -UsedSpaceOnly To turn off BitLocker against volume C: manage-bde -off C: To check BitLocker against volume C: … Continue reading BitLocker on Windows 10
It took me some time to get this one work, here are a couple of gotchas I learned. If the Fingerprint option is greyed out with a note '*Some settings are hidden or managed by your organization'. The fix is to update the registry key - [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "AllowDomainPINLogon"=dword:00000001 If the fingerprint sensor is not responding during … Continue reading Enable Fingerprint login on Windows 10
As mentioned earlier, I have been a Ubuntu and Mac user in the past a few years, but now I am using Windows 10 which is the standard OS of my new job. I like the package managers in *nix world, e.g. apt in Ubuntu, yum in CentOS/RHEL, and homebrew in Mac, and I would … Continue reading Chocolatey – Package Manager for Windows
I just started a new job this week, and the standard machine is HP EliteBook with touchscreen and Windows 10. I have been a Ubuntu and Mac user in the past couple of years, may be it is a good time for me to familiarise with the new Windows OS. I was told by many … Continue reading 3 steps to run Ubuntu in Windows 10
If you are looking for a tool which can restore the MS SQL DB backup from the production environment to the development environment, this script is just the one that you are after. In my example, the script does the following things: 1) Copy of the latest pro db backup to local. 2) Close all connections of … Continue reading Restore MSSQL database using batch script
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