Now we have a RV I wanted the pi to copy media files over when it is on the network. I have a share for our DVR where the media files are placed (HD Homerun + Emby) and wanted to copy certain TV shows over automatically when the RV is home and I put it on the network.

I use keyboard shortcuts a lot and in outlook I am used to the Ctrl+1/2/3/4 to go between mail, calendar, contacts, etc. In teams I found myself using Ctrl + 2 to go to the calendar which actually brings you to the Chat tab. I know I could use Ctrl + 4 but you know muscle memory…

Had an issue the iPhone hotspot would not work on windows, it would see the network and try to connect, on the phone the hotspot bar at the top would appear and disappear. Simple solution… Go to settings and change the name of your iPhone and remove any single quotes (’) from the name. Go back and turn the hotspot on and enjoy the connection. Well it worked on my computer :)

Why? Because it is faster to test installs and adding items to the DietPi installer with snapshots!

So, tried to do this. Failed… Why? Not because there was an issue with the share or the user/pass combination. It was the SMB process and stack locations in the I/O request packets (IRPs) that are used by Windows.

I have just moved to Two-Factor authentication, there was a bit of work to get everything signed in again but the additional security is worth it.

I was looking at getting the house wired for Ethernet. I do not have any major requirements at the moment, I do not intend to stream HDMI over the network :). About as bad as we get is streaming from the media centre to an extender (XBox 360) which is around 1.5Mb for a HD stream. I found out about MoCA and did some research, from what I could tell it would meet all my requirements, better still I did not need to get anything re-wried as we have points at every place in the house that I wanted a network outloet. I picked up 2 of them which gave me 4 points, I now have a nice stable network (Wireless N was spotty when streaming from my Media Centre to the XBox 360) which allows me to stream and move my server to a out of the way location in the house. It does not have the same capabilities as a fully wired Cat6 network but for my needs it works a treat!

I use AutoHotKey for automation, I needed to make a link to the Libraries in Windows 7 as they hold all my info in one place now. To do this just use the following line.

When running SharePoint locally it is a good idea to control the memory usage of SQL. To do this use the SQL query below.

I recently needed to get the Url of the CA for a SharePoint farm, after a bit of hunting in the API it was tracked down under the SPAdministrationWebApplication object.

SharePoint Content Deployment can be a fun beast at times, this article will walk you through a approach for resolving issues. While working with a client we had the following error in a incremental job: