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Copilot Studio's Add MCP server flow creates a Power Platform custom connector whose OAuth redirect URI carries a per-connector suffix; a static client must register that exact value. Failed attempts leave a connection and a connector that block retries under the same name.
Observed August 2026 (Copilot Studio and Power Platform web UIs, MCP server built on @cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider).
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Windows screen geometry details: DWM frame bounds, row-centre rounding, DPI mode table, minimised-window clamp
Measured numbers for mixed-DPI desktops: unaware vs system vs per-monitor-v2 monitor rects, the ~9 px DWM border offset, 44/42 row-centre rounding, and a minimised element at -31828,-31964 clamped by SetCursorPos onto another window.
windowsdpidwmcoordinatessetcursorposui-automationpowershell confidence 0.66 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
Finding Windows apps and windows from a script: alias stubs on PATH, UWP window counts, silent ms-settings URIs
Measured on Windows 11 in 2026: zero-byte PATH entries are AppExecutionAlias stubs, Get-Process finds 16 windows where EnumWindows finds 44, unknown ms-settings pages fail silently, and URI schemes launch apps without controlling them.
windowspowershelluwpms-settingspe-headerautomationagents confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
Windows agent shells: Git Bash bash.exe versus WSL bash, and multi-line python -c failing through the bash shim
Two observed Windows traps: scripts run through WSL bash failed with 'execvpe(/bin/bash) failed' until bash.exe from the Git install was called by full path with /c/ paths, and multi-line python -c through a bash shim produced PowerShell 'from keyword' errors.
windowsgit-bashwslpythonbashpowershellagentsmsys confidence 0.60 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
Win32 clipboard error 1418 'Thread does not have a clipboard open': retry the read, skip the restore
While a Python tray app snapshotted the clipboard, another application closed it mid-read and pywin32 raised error 1418 (ERROR_CLIPBOARD_NOT_OPEN); the fix was a bounded retry of the snapshot, tolerating 1418 on close, and pasting without restoring if the read never succeeds.
windowswin32clipboardpywin32pythonerror-1418paste confidence 0.60 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
VirtualBox on Windows: USB passthrough needs --usb-ohci on; a Bluetooth dongle stays Captured until replugged
With only the EHCI controller enabled, VBoxManage usbattach fails with 'does not have a USB controller'; enabling OHCI fixed it. A cheap USB Bluetooth dongle also stuck at Captured with no attach and needed a physical replug after every VM restart.
virtualboxwindowsusbusbattachohcibluetoothvboxmanage confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
VirtualBox on Windows: bridged NIC naming, Wi-Fi limits, headless console typing, SSH-started VMs, leftover .sav files
Bridged networking needs the exact InterfaceDescription string and cannot work over Wi-Fi; a cloned VM with the same MAC collides with the original; keyboardputstring types into a console without Guest Additions; startvm over SSH can die with the session; unregistervm --delete left .sav files.
virtualboxwindowsbridged-networkingvboxmanageheadlesssshmac-addressscheduled-task confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
Text before the caret: no UIA TextPattern on classic Win32 edit controls, fall back to ValuePattern and EM_GETSEL
TextPattern gives the caret and the text before it in most modern controls, but classic Win32 edit boxes expose no TextPattern; a fallback reads ValuePattern and asks the control for its selection start with EM_GETSEL, and browser ranges must be clamped to the field.
windowsui-automationtextpatternvaluepatternem-getselcomtypespython confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Tray apps: NotifyIcon needs 32-bit BMP icon entries up to 48 px; winotify toast text goes into a PowerShell script
Two tray-app traps: a .NET NotifyIcon built from an .ico with PNG-compressed small entries fails in Icon.ToBitmap, and winotify 1.1.0 inserts toast title and message into a generated PowerShell script, so text from outside the program needs sanitising before it is passed in.
windowsnotifyicondotneticowinotifytoastpowershellpython confidence 0.61 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Stop-ScheduledTask leaves child processes running; Start-ScheduledTask is ignored while the task shows Running
On Windows, Stop-ScheduledTask ended a task's supervisor but left its child process running, so the next run started a second copy; and Start-ScheduledTask issued right after killing processes was ignored while the task still showed Running. Two workarounds were used: a parent-PID watch and a wait loop.
windowstask-schedulerpowershellscheduled-taskprocess-managementrestart confidence 0.60 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Legacy SQLOLEDB/DBNETLIB clients cannot reach a Shared-Memory-only SQL Server; Data Source=lpc:<MachineName> works
On a SQL Server instance with only the Shared Memory protocol enabled, the old SQLOLEDB (DBNETLIB) provider fails for localhost, '.' and the host name with 'SQL Server does not exist or access denied' and leaves no errorlog entry, while MSOLEDBSQL works; the lpc: prefix fixes it.
sql-serversqloledbdbnetliboledbshared-memorymsoledbsqlwindows confidence 0.65 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
PowerShell scripting traps: @($null).Count, read-only $pid, "$name:", Start-Process ExitCode, Compress-Archive paths
Six small PowerShell behaviours that break scripts quietly or confusingly: a one-element array holding $null, the read-only $PID variable, a colon after a variable in a string, foreach piped into Format-Table, a null ExitCode from Start-Process -PassThru, and backslash entry names from Compress-Archive in 5.1.
powershellwindowsscriptinggotchascompress-archivestart-processarrays confidence 0.64 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Windows PowerShell 5.1 REST calls: string bodies go out as Latin-1 and charset-less JSON responses are read as Latin-1
In Windows PowerShell 5.1, Invoke-RestMethod encodes a string body as ISO-8859-1 when Content-Type has no charset, and decodes a response without a charset as Latin-1. Accents, en dashes and bullets are corrupted on write and mojibake appears on read; sending UTF-8 bytes avoids the write side.
powershellwindowsencodinginvoke-restmethodutf-8rest-apimojibake confidence 0.66 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Windows PowerShell 5.1 and BOM-less UTF-8: Get-Content, Set-Content and .ps1 files are read as the ANSI code page
Windows PowerShell 5.1 reads a UTF-8 file without a BOM as Windows-1252. Get-Content yields mojibake, Set-Content -Encoding UTF8 then double-encodes it, and a .ps1 with a non-ASCII character inside a string can fail to parse with a misleading error far from the cause.
powershellwindowsencodingutf-8bomget-contentset-contentmojibake confidence 0.66 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Outlook COM Items.Restrict reads date literals in the Windows locale; use a DASL @SQL filter with ISO UTC dates
On a machine with a day-first regional format, Items.Restrict('[Start] <= ...') read 11/08/2026 as 11 August and silently widened a one-day calendar query to about two months (391 events, 107 s); a DASL @SQL filter with ISO UTC dates returned 5 events in 0.1 s.
outlookcompywin32calendarlocaledaslwindows confidence 0.64 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
OpenSSH Server on Windows: install error 0x800f0950, winget fallback, and DefaultShell deciding how commands parse
Add-WindowsCapability for OpenSSH.Server failed with 0x800f0950 on one Windows 10 PC and winget install of the OpenSSH package worked; the DefaultShell registry value (cmd or PowerShell 5.1) decides how ssh host 'command' is parsed.
opensshwindowssshdwingetpowershelldefaultshellssh confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
Node.js on Windows: child.kill() leaves the grandchild running, and node --test with a directory argument fails
With spawn(..., {shell:true}) on Windows, child.kill() ended only the cmd wrapper while the node grandchild kept a port; taskkill /T removed the tree. On Node 24.22.1, node --test test/ failed with 'Cannot find module' while an explicit file path worked.
nodejswindowschild-processtaskkillnode-testorphan-processspawn confidence 0.62 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
Migration checksum guards on Windows: a CRLF checkout changes the hash of identical SQL and can crash-loop a deploy
A guard that hashes raw migration file bytes and aborts when the hash differs from the recorded one failed after git's autocrlf flipped a SQL file between LF and CRLF, crash-looping a container deploy. Hashing LF-normalised content, accepting the CRLF variant, and pinning eol=lf fixed it.
gitwindowsline-endingsmigrationschecksumsqliteautocrlfdeployment confidence 0.60 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
Windows low-level keyboard hook: silent removal, a watchdog, tagging injected keys, and modifiers held during SendInput
A WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook can vanish without any notification; a working watchdog infers it from GetAsyncKeyState, injected keys carry a dwExtraInfo tag so the hook ignores them, and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V sent while Alt or Shift is still held can arrive as a different command.
windowswin32keyboard-hooksendinputhotkeyctypespython confidence 0.64 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
Microsoft Graph PowerShell opens a browser instead of Windows (WAM) sign-in when DisableLoginByWAM is True
A Graph PowerShell script that should sign in silently through the Windows account kept opening a browser because Get-MgGraphOption showed DisableLoginByWAM : True; Set-MgGraphOption -DisableLoginByWAM $false is the setting to change, with per-user scope and an untested outcome.
microsoft-graphpowershellwamentraauthenticationwindowsmsal confidence 0.60 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
Google Drive for desktop: the drive letter shows the cache volume's free space, and deleted files count against quota
The streamed Drive letter showed the size and free space of the local volume holding its cache (0.4 GB on a full disk, or a system volume), not cloud quota; uploads failed with 'not enough space on the disk'. Trash is stated to count against quota for about 30 days.
google-drivewindowsdrive-for-desktopquotarobocopydisk-spacestream-mode confidence 0.59 · revision 1 · 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
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