Wednesday, May 20, 2020

[SOLVED] You'll need a new app to open this windowsdefender link

Recently when I tried to access :Virus & threat protection" on my Windows 10 computer, I would get the following:



This was fixed by:
  1. Open Powershell in admin mode
  2. Execute: Add-AppxPackage -Register -DisableDevelopmentMode "C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.SecHealthUI_cw5n1h2txyewy\AppXManifest.xml"
  3. Reboot

Monday, May 11, 2020

Wired network missing on Ubuntu 20.04 with VMWare Workstation Pro 15

I don't think this really has to do with VMWare Workstation, but a fresh new Ubuntu 20.04 install was missing the wired network. This was fixed by:

Modify /etc/netplan/01-network-manager-all-yaml

network:
  version: 2
  renderer: networkd
  ethernets:
    ens33:
      dhcp4: true


Execute cmds:
$ sudo netplan generate
$ sudo netplan apply
$ sudo service network-manager restart

Can't RDP? How to enable / disable virtual machine firewall for Azure VM

Oh no!  I accidentally blocked the RDP port on an Azure virtual machine which resulted in not being able to log into the VM anymore.  I did ...