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OK – I made it through the Master of Science degree program…was not easy, but nothing worthwhile ever is. With only the book binding left, I reflect upon my progress. I would like to count myself lucky as being able to be dangerous with both system administration and development tasks. I believe it was quite [...]

A useful trick for running commands as the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account – launch a command prompt as the system. This is useful for testing certain install processes or for killing some tasks that belong to the system. SCCM installation simulation is a good example. Here’s how: Open a command prompt as an administrator. Create a [...]