Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

If Microsoft 365 deployment tool is not working properly, and you see We couldn't find the specified configuration file, Download failed ODT error, see this post.

Take advantage of configuration providers and dependency injection to configure your ASP.Net Core applications in a loosely coupled manner Microsoft’s ASP.Net Core is an open-source, cross-platform, ...

If you receive a Your PC needs to be repaired, The Boot Configuration Data file is missing some required information, 0xc0000034, message on your Windows 11/10 ...

A publicly accessible configuration file for ASP.NET Core applications has been leaking credentials for Azure ActiveDirectory (AD), potentially allowing cyberattackers to authenticate directly via ...