Windows: Enable (WSL) Windows Subsystem for Linux

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these are the steps to enable WSL (2) on Windows 10 >= 2004.

Open Powershell with administrator permissions (right click) and install the features VirtualMachinePlatform and Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux.
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Windows: Cannot uninstall Store App. Error: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80073CFA

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if you want to uninstall some preinstalled store apps you get an error “Deployment failed with HRESULT: 0x80073CFA, Removal failed. Please contact your software vendor.”

This error could happen if the App is not correctly registered.
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Tasmota: Build your own tasmota firmware

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if you want to use Conditional Rules in tasmota you have to built your own firmware, because Conditional Rules are not included in the precomplied binaries.

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Linux: ssh error “too many authentification error”

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if you cannot logon to a linux machine and you got an error:

ssh - too many authentification failures
ssh – too many authentification failures

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VMWare vSphere: Update VCSA Appliance from command line

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I will show you how you can update a VCSA Appliance from command line rather then from webfrontend.

I assume you have configured a proxy server when you do not have a direct internet connection.

Login to the appliance at the console or by ssh.

First of all check the state of the lookup service by lsdoctor

Run the lsdoctor tool to recognized some certificate issues. Certificate issues are often the problem when an update fails.

Command> shell
root@vCenter [ ~/lsdoctor-master ]# python lsdoctor.py -l
2021-12-13T12:52:04 INFO generateReport: Listing lookup service problems found in SSO domain...
2021-12-13T12:52:04 INFO generateReport: No issues detected in the lookup service entries

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