Disable Copilot in Windows 11

AI technologies are great, but the new AI-powered recall feature in Microsoft's Co-pilot on Windows 11 raises privacy concerns. This feature has the capability to take periodic screenshots without notification, highlighting potential risks to user privacy(read here).

You can however chose to disable below feature with below steps...ironically provided by copilot itself 🤣

Connect-VIServer The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception [Solved]

Recently, i've taken up familiarity with Powershell interfacing with VMWware for automation and first issue i came across was when attempting to connect to EsXi with below command

"Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer"

NFS Datastore inaccessible after ugprade to ESXi 8.0 update 2

After recent upgrade From ESXi 7.0 U3 to ESXi 8 update 2, i lost access to my NFS datastore. After hours of online search, i realized the culprit was the esxi firewall.

Resolution:

1. Enable SSH in esxi   

2. Log into ESXI host via ssh using putty and execute below command: