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Month: February 2016

Converting OpenSUSE 11 Guest from VMWare to Hyper-V

Tasked with a V2V of an OpenSUSE 11.3 web app server, I fired up Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter and expected to be met with little resistance. Unfortunately things didn’t go smoothly. I found a few places on the internet referring to a blog post at http://www.coretekservices.com/2014/apr/29/converting-vmware-linux-guest-hyper-v… but it looks as though the URL schema for […]

Win 10: Changing the default app for PDF files

Microsoft have apparently modified the handling of file associations in Windows 10, adding additional layers of protection for some file types in an effort to prevent file association hijacking. A number of clients I work with have encountered issues with Edge as the default PDF viewer, namely with printing. Unfortunately, existing GPOs to modify these default app […]