How to Configure Microsoft SQL Always On Databases using Windows 2019 and SQL Server 2019

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This is a post that describes how to configure Microsoft SQL Always on databases.  We will be using SQL Server 2019 standard edition so this only gives you a read-only copy of your replica.  However this is perfect for uses such a Remote Desktop Farm where we just need a standby database to failover to.

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Add Microsoft Authenticator MFA to AWS Accounts

The aim of this post is to configure policies in AWS to allow accounts that have been provisioned for users with specific permissions to register for MFA themselves.  The authenticator we will be using is the Microsoft IOS app but it could also be Google or any other authenticator.

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Extract Image Files from Microsoft Word and Rename

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I frequently need to extract images from Microsoft Word documents and save them to a folder with a new file name that matches my article/naming convention.  Saving individual images is slow and most of the workarounds found online involve saving the Word file as an html file which produces duplicate images.

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