Entries by Mike Khzouz

Resetting Office 365 Activation MAC

To reset Office 365 activation license, or if you click on Activate and the activation window won’t open, opens blank or says that “Another account from your organization is already signed in on this device. Try again with a different account..” Quite Microsoft Office on MAC, open Terminal / Command Line on the MAC and […]

How to Download and Install Microsoft Updates via PowerShell

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force Install-Module -Name PSWindowsUpdate -Force Import-Module PSWindowsUpdate Install-WindowsUpdate -AcceptAll -AutoReboot This will download, install and reboot the computer.  If you don’t want to reboot after installation, remove the “-AutoReboot” from the last command/line.

Software Is Becoming a Negotiator

The Quiet Shift No One Is Talking About: Software Is Becoming a Negotiator When most people think about the future of technology, they imagine smarter apps, faster computers, or more realistic AI. What’s far less discussed—but already underway—is a deeper transformation: software is starting to negotiate on our behalf. This isn’t science fiction, and it’s […]

AI and Quantum Computing

Over the next ten years, technology will shift from being something we use to something that quietly runs alongside us.  Artificial intelligence will no longer feel like a feature or an app; it will become embedded infrastructure, similar to electricity or the internet.  AI systems will anticipate needs, manage complexity, and make routine decisions in […]

How to register and unregister a VM in vmware esxi using cmd

You can unregister a VM from ESXi directly using ESXi Host Shell / SSH (vim-cmd), vCenter will update automatically. List VMs:               vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms Note the VMID. Unregister the VM: vim-cmd vmsvc/unregister <VMID> Register:               vim-cmd solo/register /vmfs/volumes/<datastore>/<vmname>/<vmname>.vmx               You will need to know the datastore and VM names.