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VMWare Fusion Series - Hide Windows VM Apps from your Mac OSX desktop when sharing your Desktop

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This blog explains how to declutter your OSX desktop of Windows VM shared desktop files If you are sharing your desktop between OSX and "Windows 10" like this: Then you may see all your windows desktop APPs on your MAC Desktop, not a great look.  I might like to see some, but certainly not all. Solution 1: "If you want to keep Desktop Sharing" Move all your Windows desktop icons from "This PC > Desktop" to the "Public > Public Desktop" folder within Windows 10 itself. open two "Windows Explorer" windows side-by-side 1 st  window: navigate to "This PC > Desktop" 2 nd  window: navigate to "This PC > Local Disk (C:) Users > Public then "Desktop" Drag and drop the desired shortcuts from the 1 st  window to the 2 nd  window When you delete the shortcuts from the  1 st  window, you will see the icons gone from your Mac desktop I'm not sure if it is possible to get rid of the desktop.ini or rec

PowerPoint VBA Series - How to loop through each PPTX's Slide Master(s) and it's related Layouts

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Looping through Slide Master Layouts Summary: what is demonstrated in this example? determine how many, then loop through how many Slide Masters you have determine how many, then loop through each custom layout of each Slide Master determine if any shape is out of bounds of the Slide Master height if the shape meets certain required conditions set the activewindow so the user can see the slide being examined select the shape with your matching conditions, making it visible to the use later call a subroutine/function to act on your shape pass variables to a subroutine use a case statement that evaluates your shape.type use a msgbox to ask to user what do do with the matching shape If you need to use VBA to update your Slide Master and it's Layouts First, there may be more than one Slide Master, and each SM will likely have multiple layouts. modify the SM, then loop through each of it's layouts to modify them as well repeat for each SM, if more than one exists In the following ex

ArubaOS 8.x AP Console Protection

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Recent versions of ArubaOS 8.x   have introduced the concept of AP console protection.   This includes default enablement of: AP console protection (a password is required to access the CLI) a randomized password (is automatically applied to protect your console) To see that randomized password: find your AP's Controller on your Mobility Conductor (formerly known as Mobility Master) #cd /mm #show ap database find the AP your interested in, notice it's Group and switch IP (MM-1) [mm] # show ap database             AP Database ----------- Name  Group    AP Type  IP Address   Status    Flags  Switch IP    Standby IP ----  -----    -------  ----------   ------    -----  ---------    ---------- AP1    default   335      10.1.13.150  Up 9m:0s  2      10.1.13.100   0.0.0.0 #logon " your switch IP " notice you just performed a SSO logon to your gateway/controller on your Mobility Controller #show ap-group < your ap- group > | include "AP system profile" noti