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Launch Windows Terminal with multiple tabs

First, I like Windows Terminal and it is only getting better. Second, I want to start it with multiple tabs. Here is how I did it.

Build Marlin Firmware in Docker with Configuration Management

My biggest pain points have been the firmware and configuration management

Script the creation of VM in Hyper-V

It's about time I automated the creation of VM's in Hyper-V to mount the ISO's and start the VM's if necessary.

Bootable Thumb Drive for Installing Windows

I needed to be able to install Windows via a USB thumb drive and I didn't want to use anything other than what comes with Windows.

Copying UNC path with PowerShell

If you copy a UNC path (like \\system\share\) to some folder with Copy-Item cmdlet you'll end up with the target path including the share name. And this is usually undesirable.

VSO Build and File Select/Exclude

Hey all, so today I wanted to use the new (finally) feature of pushing nuget packages to nuget feeds inside of Visual Studio Online's build environment. Which is turning out to be really awesome by the way. Anyways, I'm doing a vNext project and it creates 2 nuget packages *.nupkg. I create a new Nuget Publish task and it set the default. First, it won't work correctly, it'll try and upload some downloaded nuget packages. Lame. So we need to change the default of **\*.nupkg to **\artifacts\**\

Updating com+ component username/password in PowerShell

Here's a little PowerShell script that will update the username and password on a com+ component. Useful when domain accounts are used as identities on com+ objects on a bunch of systems and you need to change the username and password. write-host Starting $catalog = New-Object -comobject COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog $applications = $catalog.GetCollection("Applications") $applications.Populate() write-host "Collection populated" foreach ($application in $applications) { if ($application.Name -