On October 14, 2025, Windows 10 reached end of life and no longer receives updates. To keep getting updates, you must upgrade to Windows 11 or enroll in the Windows 10 ESU (Extended Security Updates) program. In this post, I will show you step by step how to enable the commercial Windows 10 Extended Security…
slmgr.vbs is the Windows Software Licensing Management Tool, a Microsoft Visual Basic script that comes with Windows and is a core part of the Windows activation system. The full path is C:\Windows\System32\slmgr.vbs. You can use slmgr.vbs to troubleshoot, activate, change, and uninstall your Windows activation. In this post, I will show you how to use…
CyberChef is a web application with an abundance of tools, including decoding and encoding to and from various formats such as Base64, ROT13, XOR, and Hex. It is often referred to as the Cyber Swiss Army Knife, and I can see why. There are over 400 tools. I’ve personally used CyberChef on many occasions, most…
In this post, I will show you how to use my Duo Authentication for Windows Logon PowerShell scripts to check whether Duo Win Logon is installed, install Duo Win Logon, or upgrade Duo Win Logon. Previously, I wrote the blog post Upgrading Duo Authentication for Windows Logon. That blog post covered how to upgrade Duo…
At EUC World Amplify 2025, I gave a presentation titled “Transforming Chaos into Control: Mastering Windows App Deployments with Intune“. The presentation covered the ways I’ve been deploying applications with Intune that aren’t just repackaging the same Win32 application each time there’s an update. Instead, I package a PowerShell script as a Win32 application. If…
Duo Authentication Proxy is a very useful way to add MFA to LDAP and RADIUS. It is also a way to sync your users with Duo. You can install Duo Authentication Proxy on Windows or Linux. While older versions of Duo Auth Proxy typically keep working, a Duo certificate expires in February 2026, and you…
VMware by Broadcom has now enabled home labs to generate tokens and license VCF 9. Before the change, when you passed a VCP VCF exam, you were eligible for vSphere 8 and VCF 5.2 license keys, but you couldn’t create any tokens, which prevented you from using VCF 9 beyond the 90-day trial. In this…
I recently had the opportunity to attend the very first Workplace Ninjas US conference, which took place in Dallas, Texas, USA, on December 9th and December 10th 2025. If you’ve never heard of Workplace Ninjas, it is a community of IT professionals focused on Microsoft technologies used in the workplace. Workplace Ninjas US is the…
In this post, I will show you, step by step, how to configure the locked.properties file for Omnissa Horizon (formerly VMware Horizon) to work with the Omnissa UAG (Unified Access Gateway). The Omnissa Horizon locked.properties file is a key component of Horizon’s functionality and security. When the locked.properties file is not configured correctly, Horizon may…
In this post, I will show you step by step how to configure the Omnissa UAG (Unified Access Gateway) to work with Omnissa Horizon (formerly VMware Horizon). Prerequisites If you need to learn how, my post Install Horizon Connection Server details all the steps. If you need to learn how, my post Install Omnissa Horizon…
