Streamlining Port Connectivity Checks in PowerShell
In the ever-evolving landscape of network administration, the ability to quickly and efficiently verify open ports across multiple hosts and destinations is paramount. This task, though crucial, can often be cumbersome and time-consuming. Recently, I found myself in…
Read More »How to Fix WSUS After an In-Place Upgrade to Windows Server 2022
If you’ve recently upgraded your Windows 2012 or above server to Windows Server 2022, you might have encountered an issue with WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) not working correctly. This problem is caused by certain changes, leading to…
Read More »How to: Watermark photos with a days since date time stamp (Days since birth time stamp)
I recently had my first child and I found myself taking countless photos of my little one, but struggled to keep them organized. I wanted a simple and efficient way to keep track of his growth by watermarking…
Read More »How To: Find all RDS session hosts
If you’re working in a large environment without a lot of management consoles to see the roles deployed in the environment you can do this easy with Active Directory and the magic of script blocks. The below script…
Read More »How to: Find stale servers in Active Directory
For any system engineer working with Active Directory or just about any IT service out there, good IT hygiene (cyber hygiene) is key to maintaining a healthy and manageable environment. For Active Directory it’s a good idea to…
Read More »How to: Run Kubernetes Locally
Why run Kubernetes locally?If you want to run your app in a dev environment that will emulate what production will look like this is a way to do it locally from your workstation. There are kubernetes mechanisms like…
Read More »How to: Setup Kubernetes on your workstation
There are a lot of good guides for this around but I wanted to write this to have my own with all the commands needed in one location. This guide is for developers working with Kubernetes and is…
Read More »How to: Detect log4j vulnerabilities on Windows Servers.
If you’re working in a business environment you want to be sure that your Windows servers are safe from log4j vulnerabilities. If you’re running some kind of management tool across all servers this is easy enough. You just…
Read More »How to: Fix or mitigate log4j vulnerabilities on Windows server.
If you’re here reading this you’ve probably already heard about the log4j vulnerability and you’re wanting to eliminate it in your environment. This article just focuses on Windows server. The first thing you should do is to update…
Read More »How to move docker data directory to a different mount – Ubuntu
I’ve recently been working with docker to deploy containers on Ubuntu server. By default they deploy in the standard data directory used for docker is /var/lib/docker. If you’re using a cloud platform like digital ocean the standard storage…
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