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Powershell: Profile locations

Hi,

if you want to customize your environment powershell has ability to load or execute some scripts at startup.

There are 4 files where you can define functions, aliases … The AllHosts variables does not mean Computers. Allhosts is relating to Programs with has an Interface to Powershell, for example Powershell itself, Powershell ISE and so on. While currenthost means a specfic program. The currenthost variables differ from Powershell to Powershell ISE.
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Windows: Installation of msxml4 failed. Could not register type library for msxml4.dll

Hi,

short post after Summer vacation 🙂 A customer had the problem that he couldn’t install msxml4 sp3.

During installation the setup could not register type library C:\Windows\SysWOW64\msxml4.dll.
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Debian: Configure wireless LAN by Systemd

Hi,

this post is a step by step tutorial for setup WLAN in debian by systemd.

Determine the WLAN Adapter and reachable Networks

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root@debdev ~# iwconfig
root@debdev ~# ifconfig wlan0 up
root@debdev ~# iwlist wlan0 scanning

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OpenVPN: Create a peer to peer Network between two Clients

Hi,

for creating a simple peer to peer network between two clients you do not have to setup a complete X.509 certificate based infrastructure. You can use a static key created by OpenVPN for such purposes.

In a Point-To-Point environment one Computer acts as server (vpnmachine1: 192.168.200.1) the other as client (vpnmachine2: 192.168.200.2).
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Systemd: Automount nfs export

Hi,

systemd can mount cifs filesystems at boot or on demand like autofs.

First cifs mount at boot time. Determine the share and the mount point.
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