From time to time it happens that you install a sql server (or SQL express) and that you forget to assign local admin permissions. When this happens, you can choose to do a reinstallation... or you can try to assign the permissions after all through a backdoor. I chose the latter! Open a cmd prompt (as admin) {% …

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I must admit, it was hidden very well... but apparently there is an emoticon picker that is available in windows. It allows you choose from a wide range of emoticons and lets you insert those in the text in an application that you are working in... You might it is stupid, but I like it. I tend to forget the key combo's …

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From time to time, it happens that you get/buy a new computer and that you have to set up everything from scratch. All your software gets installed either by hand or by some sort of automated process (pushed to you by your organization or something that has been set up by you) and you get to do your work pretty fast …

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For some time, I've been struggling with this, but we are using Microsoft Office365 with shared (free) mailboxes and from time to time, someone wants to have a calendar of such a shared mailbox on his iOS device. The idea of such shared mailboxes (and why they are free) is that they do not represent real users, but …

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A few years ago, Microsoft announced that you could upgrade your (official) windows 7 (or 8) installation to windows 10 and that this could be done for free! The reasons for this move are outside of this post, but the idea is that this offer was only limited in time and the free upgrade supposedly ended in July of …

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MTM (of Microsoft Test Manager) is an application that allows for the management of test cases and that is linked to TFS VSTS "Azure Devops". On a depricated page, I found the following explanation: Use Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to help you test the application you built. MTM stores your test plans and …

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