I recently ran into a situation where I needed to run a test with a Québec City IP address. I checked every well-known VPN provider for their server lists, but none had servers specifically in Québec City. After additional research, I found it’s possible to create an Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway in Canada East and have the VM use the linked VNet as a NIC.

Do you need to create a specifically-size file down to the last byte and don’t care about the contents? It’s usually straightforward, but Windows has some extra fine print.

Need to create a file with specific size and random content? One or the other is fine, but both can be problematic. I’m lookin’ at you, Windows.