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Web Platform Installer 5.0

Wow! Ok so I am somewhat behind the times here but I was investigating how to "stand up", to use the LINUX community parlance, an instance of the excellent MediaWiki on a Windows 2012 box and came across a Microsoft blog talking about WebPlatform Installer 5.0 So far this is awesome. Basically download it and have a play. You simple select from the lists what you want the installer to download and install - I think it even installs the required Windows features for you too - it happened so quick I'm not sure!? Want MySQL database?  MediaWiki?  Just select em.  Then click install - I had to provide MySQL root credentials to setup MySQL. More when I know how it went - initial thoughts are that this is MAGIC! Happy Friday!

Patching and HTML Tables...

Ok so this isn't really to do with patching well only slightly. I use the awesome, https://www.ultimatewindowssecurity.com/patchanalysis/default.aspx site to assist with understanding the slew of patches which avalanche their way into my world each month. Using the website below I can convert the HTML tables of Randy's analysis into a CSV! http://www.convertcsv.com/ For free! Astounding!