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Aaron Parker
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Developer of #Evergreen & #VcRedist. Senior Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO @GetNerdio. Born at 329.56ppm. https://stealthpuppy.com. Microsoft MVP (2011-2018, 2025)
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Having a phone number in 2026 is a liability
A smartphone call log shows four recent calls from flagged numbers labeled as spam, telemarketer, or fraud, with timestamps ranging from 12:21 pm to 12:56 pm.
January 20, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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Every frame makes for a lovely desktop wallpaper
January 9, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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Windows 11 supports web auth at the sign-in page (post provisioning) so anyone can have a simplified password-less auth sign-in experience learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...
Windows 11 sign-in screen showing the Entra ID web-sign in dialog box
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Local real estate doing some dodgy data collection
Flyer from a real estate agent - the flyer has the following printed on it: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN With Christmas just around the corner, I'm so excited to let you know that this year we have made direct contact with Santa Claus! Now, Santa has sent me on a mission with an important question for you. We would like to know if any of your kids would like to receive a personalised letter from him, Mrs Claus and all the reindeers and elves wishing the little ones a Merry Christmas? If you would like your kids to be surprised with this letter, please provide your details in one of the following ways and Santa will deliver these letters personally addressed to your children in December: Your Full Name: Your Child's Full Name: Address: Phone: Email: Take a photo of this form filled out and send it to us by Friday 12th Dec:
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Can confirm that you can sign into a on-premises Azure Arc enabled Windows Server desktop with Entra ID only credentials #AzureVirtualDesktop
A screenshot of a Remote Desktop session via the Windows App on macOS, connecting to a Windows Server 2025 desktop via Azure Virtual Desktop. The target VM is hosted on an on-premises Hyper-V server.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Well that ain't great #Microsoft - flagging your own site via SmartScreen
A screenshot of Microsoft Edge on Windows showing the site https://m365.cloud.microsoft as a dangerous site as flagged by SmartScreen. The error is shown in a full page red background and white text
October 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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"Windows back up"? Or is it Windows Backup?
Screenshot of the Windows 11 desktop showing the "Windows back up" application and shortcut A screenshot of the "Windows Backup" for Organizations documentation A screenshot of the "Windows Backup" and Restore settings from the Intune portal
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Yeah, nah...

What version of Terminal are you using?
October 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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If I were born 40 years earlier and ended up as a high school science teacher.

Also, seeing me with a beard is extra funny because I can’t grow one
AI generated photo of me as a man in the 1970s with a brown suit and tie, and a beard
September 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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macOS 26 Tahoe final looks to be done
September 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The funniest 1/2 second in cinematic history #JohnCandy
Reaction shot from Trains, Planes and Automobiles. John Candy has a surprised look on his face, looking through a taxi window with people in the background, but it's inside the airport
September 8, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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The Apple TV icon look real wonky on macOS 26, with the "Liquid Glass" style
Liquid Glass highlights on icons in macOS 26 visually skew the icon so that the top and bottom edges of the icon don't look parallel
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Simple colour output in Azure Pipelines by using $PSStyle with PowerShell 7.2+ learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...
Screenshot of an Azure Pipelines run showing log output with lines in green, blue/cyan and yellow using the $PSStyle variable in PowerShell
July 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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How is Australia’s worst prime minister in decades, who blindsided one of our allies, among the King’s Birthday recipients? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Morrison, the prime minister from August 2018 until May 2022, is also among the 14 people appointed companion of the order, with his leadership in Australia’s contribution to Aukus singled out for mention by the council overseeing the honours.
June 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Urgh. Over an hour to install Windows updates and language packs
Screenshot showing a Packer build of Windows 11 on Azure taking over an hour to install Windows updates and a language pack
May 30, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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I alway forget to keep an eye on the next milestone - #Evergreen passed 9m installs
Screenshot from powershellgallery.com showing the Evergreen PowerShell module at 9,157,317 installs
May 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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GitHub Copilot has done an amazing job translating a GitHub workflow to an Azure Pipeline. What a time saver
Side-by-side view in Visual Studio Code of a GitHub workflow and the Azure Pipelines version, automatically translated by GitHub Copilot
May 2, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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No one was recommending the #Azure portal to their friends, so Microsoft has finally changed the feedback question
Screenshot from the Azure portal showing the question "How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with portal.azure.com?" with responses for "Very dissatisfied to Very satisfied
April 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Why does it take over 30 minutes to install a language pack via the LanguagePackManagement PowerShell module on an Azure VM (even with Premium SSD)?
Screenshot of a Packer log via Azure Pipelines showing a time duration of approximately 34 minutes to install the en-AU language pack
April 20, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Can anyone explain why a largely current install of Windows 11 24H2 fails to install language packs with Install-Language, but then install the latest cumulative update, and reboot it then works?

This should work out of the box without updates, surely.
Windows 11 language pack install via PowerShell failing with "Install-Language : Language pack or features could only be partially installed. ErrorCode: -2147009295. Please try" Windows 11 system about dialog showing the OS build number 26100.3476 Windows 11 language pack install via PowerShell succeeding
March 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I think my virtual disk is melting
A screenshot from Windows 11 showing a VMware Virtual NVMe Disk with a temperature value of 11759°C
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Did Broadcom break the VMware Fusion updater? The direct download is also gone
Screenshot of VMware Fusion on macOS attempting an update and receiving the error message "A certificate error occurred while connecting to the update server"
March 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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How many search boxes does Windows 11 need? 3 might be the magic number, but the only one that's needed here is the one in the Start menu

(Default Windows 11 24H2 install with the latest updates)
Default Windows 11 22H4 desktop showing the Bing search bar on the desktop and the default Start menu and taskbar, both with a search bar showing
March 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Meanwhile macOS users using the Windows app to connect directly to Windows machines
March 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Microsoft released a Copilot app for macOS. Includes hotkey support for a quick search feature apps.apple.com/au/app/micro...
Screenshot of Microsoft Copilot on macOS Screenshot of the Copilot quick search box on macOS
March 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM