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Configure GPU Passthrough (GPU-P) for a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

When testing graphics-intensive applications such as Autodesk Revit or Epic Games Twinmotion in a Hyper-V environment, GPU Partitioning (GPU-P) may be required to enable hardware-accelerated graphics. This involves assigning a partition of the host’s physical GPU to the virtual machine...

October 10, 2026

Miscellaneous

Run an Executable after Windows Logon

This post explains how we can run an executable after Windows logon. This could be used to invoke a background process once or every time a user logs in. The Windows Run Registry Key The Windows registry contains the following...

August 31, 2023

Miscellaneous

Microsoft Edge Prompt This Site Is Trying To Open

Have you ever been using Microsoft Edge and tried to launch a Teams URL, or maybe a Citrix Receiver URL, and received the Microsoft Edge prompt This Site Is Trying To Open [protocol]? In older versions of Edge you might...

July 14, 2022

Miscellaneous

Twitter API Giving HTTP 404 Not Found When Requesting a Token

We have recently experienced the Twitter API giving HTTP 404 Not Found when requesting a token to authenticate users on one of our websites. The issue appeared suddenly through no changes in our own code. What suddenly started happening is...

June 7, 2022

Miscellaneous

Use Visual Studio to Publish an Unreferenced Assembly to the Bin Folder

This blog explains how to use Visual Studio to publish an unreferenced assembly to the Bin Folder. There are lots of examples on Google that provide explanations on how to copy unreferenced assemblies (DLL files) to the bin folder at...

March 12, 2022

Miscellaneous

App-V Applications and the CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j Exploit

$packageRoot = Get-AppvClientConfiguration | where Name -eq PackageInstallationRoot | Select -ExpandProperty Value $packageRoot = [System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables($packageRoot) $jarFiles = gci ($packageRoot) -rec -force -filter *.jar -ea 0 | where Name -like "*log4j*" | select -ExpandProperty FullName foreach ($jarfile in $jarFiles) { $PackageId...

December 15, 2021

Miscellaneous

Redirected Homeshare folders displaying as Documents

When organisations redirected their documents folder in Windows 7, it often led to administrators seeing a redirected Homeshare folders displaying as Documents on the network share. Microsoft documented the issue here. Administrators could simply display the ‘Filename’ column as in...

November 26, 2021

Batch Scripts Miscellaneous

Avoid Error 0x800f0906 by Bypassing the Windows Updates Server

An organisation we work with have removed Microsoft QuickAssist from their corporate build – presumably they saw this as a potential security risk. Here we explain how to avoid error 0x800f0906 by Bypassing the Windows Updates Server. We had an...

July 30, 2021

Miscellaneous

IR35 and Off-payroll Working

IR35 is a set of tax laws in the UK designed to combat tax avoidance by hiring companies and the workers that they hire. Here we explain how Alkane Solutions can assist hiring companies with compliance issues related to IR35...

March 6, 2021

Miscellaneous

Windows Run Commands and Shortcuts

This post contains lots of useful Windows run commands and shortcuts! These commands are really handy for when these shortcuts are hidden or disabled by group policy. Windows Run Commands and Shortcuts Have you ever tried to launch a control...

January 20, 2021

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Category: Miscellaneous

Configure GPU Passthrough (GPU-P) for a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Run an Executable after Windows Logon

Microsoft Edge Prompt This Site Is Trying To Open

Twitter API Giving HTTP 404 Not Found When Requesting a Token

Use Visual Studio to Publish an Unreferenced Assembly to the Bin Folder

App-V Applications and the CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j Exploit

Redirected Homeshare folders displaying as Documents

Avoid Error 0x800f0906 by Bypassing the Windows Updates Server

IR35 and Off-payroll Working

Windows Run Commands and Shortcuts

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