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  One day for no apparent reason (although switching off bluetooth may have caused it) certain features such as bluetooth for the phone connection, car-play (android and apple) and SatNav all stopped working in my VW Golf Mk7 GTE.  Basic attempts to resolve such as resetting to factory defaults did not solve the problem.  Somehow a software glitch seems to have removed the SoftWare as a Product (SWaP) / Feature Enablement Codes (FEC).  Taking it to the dealer to fix would have likely cost a minimum of over £200 for diagnostics only and that is without any additional charges. It took a significant amount of time to research the problem and find the solution.  There are many helpful videos on YouTube which show how software updates can be applied however, none of them showed the exact method I used.  They are still useful though to familiarize with updating.  Review some of these videos because the techniques you use will be similar.   These st...

I had problems RDPing to an Entra (AAD) joined endpoint which I fixed but I'm not completely sure how I fixed it, so this is relegated to the amazing randomness blog. Use AzureAD\<email UPN> in the connection string. It's possible these policy settings had an effect however when I checked them in the registry they were not there, so really not sure. On both the remote and target endpoint set the following: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Credentials Delegation Restrict delegation of credentials to remote servers - Enabled - Require Remote Credential Guard