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This is presuming the WireGuard has been installed on the EdgeRouter, either by updating it to EdgeOS 3.0 (currenly EA) or by installing WireGuard manually.

Generate the key pair for the router

mkdir /config/auth; cd /config/auth
wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey
mv privatekey wg.key
mv publickey wg.pub

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If a Hyper-V VM failed to start due to access denied errors when accessing the VHDX, it might be due to the VM itself does not have read/write permission to the VHDX.

To grant the VM permission to access to VHDX:

$vmId = (Get-VM "<VM-Name>").VMId
icacls.exe <VHDX-path> /grant "$vmId`:RW"

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1. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles.

2. Double click/tap on the Profiles key in the left pane to expand it.

3. Click/tap on each long GUID number subkey, and look at its ProfileName string value in the right pane to see if it has the current network name.

4. When you find the correct ProfileName for your network name, double click/tap on the Category DWORD value in the same right pane to modify it.

5. Type in a new Value data number for the network location you want, and click/tap on OK (Public: 0, Private: 1, Domain: 2).

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Running apt-get autoremove will remove all kernels except for the latest one and the one used in the last successful boot.

If /boot is 100% full and apt-get can't run (showing error message 'disk is full'), use rm to remove the oldest kernel in /boot:

cd /boot
sudo rm *-3.16.0-23-generic

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The Ethernet chip on Intel NUC (I-218V) is not supported by Windows Server 2012/2012 R2, but it has a identical (?) twin I-218LM that is supported.

1. Install the driver that came with NUC. It will fail with an error saying no adapter found

2. Right click the network card in Device Manager and go to Update Driver

3. Click Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer

4. Select Intel (not Intel Corporation) under manufacturer and Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I218-LM from the list

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A neat batch file from JJClements.co.uk will do the trick:

@echo off
:menu
echo RDP:// HyperLink - James Clements - james@jjclements.co.uk
echo ----------------------------------------------------------
echo.
echo.
echo 1. Install RDP Association

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To change one file:

(Get-Item ".Pi.bin").LastWriteTime = "2015/3/14 9:26 AM"

To change multiple files:

Get-ChildItems -recurse | where { $_.LastWriteTime.Year -eq "2014" } | foreach { $_.LastWriteTime = "2015/3/14 9:26 AM" }

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Visual Studio 2017 and later comes with a Git client, Git for Windows. However, as it is installed within Visual Studio, VS Code is not aware of its existence and complains about the lack of a Git client.

To make VS Code use the Git client already exists in the system:

1. Add these two path variables:

   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw64\bin
   C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\usr\bin
   

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Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 VM with a GPT disk on Hyper-V.

1. Extend the VHD in Hyper-V

2. Extend the partition:

   1. $ sudo parted

   2. print free It should show a warning:

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1. Run the following command in PowerShell:

   gci | Select-Object -Property Name | Export-Csv .\rename.csv

2. Open rename.csv file and delete the first row. Create a second column called NewName and list the new names of files in the column. The final rename.csv should look like the following:

Name,NewName