Instructions are provided to install Java (OpenJDK) on an Ubuntu Linux installation....

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A bug in Parallels 17 prevents a host Mac from communicating with a virtual machine with Shared Networking or Host Only networking. Read on for a fix....

The OpenSSH SFTP server bundled with Windows can have the default remote connection folder changed by following these instructions....

PowerShell script execution is disabled by default on Windows 10 and 11. If you try to run a script, you receive the error "File c:\scripts\MyScript.ps1 cannot load because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system." Read on to learn how to enable it....

When using the macOS to connect to network file shares that do not support extended attributes, such as Samba on Linux, the Mac instead creates files prefixed with a dot-underscore ._ to hold that metadata. Read on to learn how to block these files from Samba on Linux....

Silent (GUI-less) JRE installations are a necessity if you want to script the build of a new Windows server with as little human interaction as possible. It's very simple to install a JRE silently through a script, you call the EXE from the command prompt with a few customization parameters....

I've recently been researching SQL Server database compression in an effort to save disk space in my company's production and non-production environments. Much of our database contains text that would...

Adding a Windows user to the local Administrators group will not necessarily give that account full administrative access, as Microsoft has also introduced an additional layer of security called "User...

I am currently in the process of migrating my company's SQL Server replication strategy from Log Shipping to Always On Availability Groups. This involved the addition of several new VMs to my producti...