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Week roundup
Last week recap and links: Azure Resource Manager Compute Templates, that’s right resource manager now include Compute, Network, and Storage Get started with Pester, PowerShell unit testing framework Reduce the Size of Your WinSXS Folder on Windows 7 or 8, … Continue reading
Shrink MS Word document
A docx document of Microsoft Word is actual a zip archive. You can open it and see why some documents are so large yet contain only a few pages. First drill into the folders to find the file that is … Continue reading
SpiraTeam database hack for user access
My test colleague uses SpiraTeam and needed some help restoring a backup. After restoring we granted access to the database from IIS (network service). But now he tells me nobody knows the Administrator password. What to do? Solution The SQL … Continue reading
Remove package from octopusdeploy built-in nuget
Octopusdeploy has an built-in nuget feed as of version 2.1. This nuget feed is based on Nuget.Lucene. It is read-only and not usable from visual studio or other tools. A nuget delete will fail with “Not found” every time. During … Continue reading