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Oilers had Stolarz and decided it didn’t work. That may have been 7 (8?) years ago but they don’t tend to review past decisions.

This is a pretty wild find. Thanks for documenting everything

Omnissa Horizon locked.properties Settings The Omnissa Horizon locked.properties file feels like the best worst-kept secret. The Horizon locked.properties file allows you to change many settings that aren’t accessible from the main Horizon adm...

Here's how to create the Horizon locked.properties file, including all the settings I could find.

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Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism While investigating some performance mysteries in Chrome I discovered that Microsoft had parallelized how they zero memory, and in some cases this was making it a lot slower. This slowdown may be m…

Years ago I complained about Windows creating 39+ page-zeroing pages on 96-core machines, which made memory zeroing much slower. The vast majority of the CPU time was consumed by fighting over a lock.

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Here are my thoughts on AI from #msignite 2026:

Agents, agents, agents. While I personally doubt most organizations are using a lot of AI agents *today*, I wouldn't be surprised if we're just a year early on that front. I personally haven't used agents much yet, there's so much on the to-do list

Introducing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (vMode) | Microsoft Community Hub Now in Public Preview  Windows Admin Center has long been a favorite tool for IT pros, trusted to manage millions of Windows Servers around...

I haven't seen anything official, so it may not be the case, but this looks like the end of SCVMM: "Introducing Windows Admin Center: Virtualization Mode (vMode)" techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...

YouTube video by Linus Tech Tips I Spent a THOUSAND Dollars on HDMI Cables.. for Science

I used to be a “digital signal is all 1’s and 0’s” and believed that a cable is a cable is a cable. Then I saw this video and, even though “digital” is 1’s and 0’s”, the electrical signal is still analog and can be manipulated.

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Here's a typical use case for me using -Outvariable in an interactive PowerShell command line where I'm searching for a file so I want visual output as it searches but I also want the results in a variable so I can access more properties later if I need them without searching again

I understand that Canadian officials can't blatantly tell Trump off. That makes perfect sense. But this TV commercial thing should also show you that there's no point in trying to work with him at all.

He's an angry toddler. He can't be negotiated with.

Find other trade partners and allies.

In the US, you have ICE agents. In Canada, we have NICE agents.
This agent was part of the ‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes’ Canadian television show. He was interviewing Americans and letting them pose for a Canadian passport ID. People were getting a kick out of it and having fun. Good on you Canada! 🇨🇦❤️

Honestly, I feel AI (or LLMs) is the newer version of the book “How to win friends and influence people”. It’s about manipulation. Playing to people’s need for validation of their ideas or beliefs.

The original book had that as a concept, AI takes it 10 steps further with interactivity.

At this moment, I liken it to paying for TechNet… at least I think that’s what it was called…

Or paying for the old VMUG Advantage…

So… I guess I pay for multiple solutions.

ChatGPT hasn’t been strong for me in writing powershell, too may hallucinating in parameters, cmdlets and non-functional code. But for writing I find it being pretty good.

Claude, I’ve found very good about programming/coding/etc.

My experience is different products have different strengths

Been there a few times the last couple years myself 😝

I have Gemini but I personally pay for Claude and ChatGPT

Screenshot of the Roomba Home application that says “Reading the room”

It’s oddly true. A Roomba can read the room better than most people

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If you can run psexec -i -s cmd.exe then you can impersonate a machine account on the network. Which might be problematic

If you want to quickly figure out if & where a process is writing a logfile, create a filter (ctrl l) in @SysInternals procmon for your process(es) and also Category = Write & turn off registry & network capture in the toolbar

Need to turn %USERDNSDOMAIN% into canonical form, eg for ADSI ?

"DC=$(($env:USERDNSDOMAIN -split '\.') -join ',DC=')"

That’s a good idea to remove any network latency, but it’s the application of FTA’s that’s slow. Reading the file (even over a high latency network) contributes the least amount of time to the process

I’ve wondered about removing all entries in the built in DFA, disabling the policy then use SetUserFTA to do the FTA application *after* logon.

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Things to ponder. Thanks for coming to my logon duration rant!

I haven’t confirmed yet, but this may be another reason published apps are so much faster. I suspect they don’t have this second FTA application phase.

So… what can be done to speed this up?

Disabling the Default File Associations policy will still have the built in FTA applied…

This may not be 100% accurate, especially during the “real” User Profile Event phase as the User Profile Service can be doing other things. But for the FTA Explorer.exe starts, it does appear to be only FTA application.

When Explorer.exe applies FTA it appears to programmatically call the User Profile Service to do the application. So the only markers I can use appear to be AppDefaults UserProfileLoaded event, followed by all the FTA application events and then find the User Profile Service completed event.

I noted that Microsoft might be aware of this as they reduced the number of FTA’s built into Windows 10 Multisession used in AVD. I haven’t revisited it to see if it holds for Windows 11 Multi-session

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FTA’s application appears to be a slow process and in my test environment can take between 15-30 seconds. So doing it twice REALLY doesn’t help.

Both times the User Profile Service is doing the application of the FTA… but the second time the DFA XML file events are being Open and Closed by…. Explorer.exe

So it appears explorer.exe will apply DFA again.

Ugh. Why Microsoft, why?!

So just trace the FTA logs by username right? You’d think that would work… until I saw it applying all the same FTA’s TWICE! AND it will block logons the second time it’s applying them too!

WTF?