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Windows: Invoke-RestMethod =>The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

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Invoke-RestMethod or Invoke-WebRequest uses by default TLS 1.0. This protocal is outdated and would be not accepted by the most Webservers anymore.

Usually this results in the following error message:
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

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Windows: GPO Logon/logoff scripts

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User GPO logon/logoff script definitions are stored in an extra place. They are not part of C:\windows\System32\grouppolicy\user\registry.pol nor they can be exported my secedit.
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Linux: Disk recovery with ddrescue

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‘ddrescue –direct’ will open the input with the O_DIRECT option for uncached reads. ‘raw devices’ are not needed on newer kernels. For older kernels see below.
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Powershell: Some basics accessing the BCDstore by WIM

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here are some starters for accessing the bcd store from powershell by using WMI.

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Windows: Using Windows text to speech feature with powershell

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Windows has a builtin feature to convert text to speech and play it over the speakers. This can be used in powershell by using the System.Speech namespace.
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