Tuesday, 25. August 2020
I have recently gotten into working with PowerShell Universal Dashboard. At work we have some requirements that Universal Dashboard will help accommodate. So I got to work with the community edition to be able to do a proof of concept. Everything has gone very well and we are purchasing the suite. That being said the biggest issue I ran into was being able to update the page with results by pushing a button.
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Thursday, 13. February 2020
Recently I was writing a script to create Azure Route Tables and I kept having issue with getting virtual network gateway route propagation to be enabled.
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Saturday, 18. November 2017
In a perfect world no one would ever store usernames and passwords in code. We are on in a perfect world and I myself make mistakes and in the past I have created scripts that required passwords in them and I accidentally pushed the code to VSTS with the password entered. So I had to figure out how to remove that from the history of the file. I could have deleted the project and created a new one but I would have lost all my history of commits which I did not want to do. Here is how I found to remove text from commit history.
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Monday, 6. November 2017
Working with a lot of VMs in Azure it has be come more essential to be able to run my scripts on many VMs at a time. The first step in doing this is to enable remote PowerShell and keep it secure. Below is the script that I use to enable remote PowerShell and generate a cert to use for encrypting the communication.
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Sunday, 5. November 2017
I have been doing a ton of PowerShell scripts lately and I was wanting to find a way to tie into a version control system. Originally I wanted to do something like GitHub but since I want to do a free option GitHub was out as everything is public on their free option. So I looked at Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). They offer 5 users for free and the repositories can be setup as either git or TFS. So VSTS was it.
My next challenge was PowerShell ISE. I was wanting to interrelate VSTS into ISE but I did not find a solution that I liked but I did stuble across Visual Studio Code. VS Code is pretty neat. It has a ton of addons and can support many languages including PowerShell. Also there is an addon for VSTS which is nice.
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Monday, 3. August 2015
I have been wanting to setup Snort on a CentOS based firewall for a while and I finally got around to it. The good thing is I finally got it working thanks to a blog Dennis Panagiotopoulos here, I have confirmed this works for CentOS 6.6 and 7.1. The problem is as with getting Snort to run inline. I was unable to find any thing on getting this to work correctly. So here is what I had to do in addition to Dennis’s blog post:
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Thursday, 7. March 2013
I recently upgraded one of my laptops to Windows 8 and I noticed that it could run Hyper-V, so I enabled the Hyper-V feature and everything went smooth until I setup the Virtual Switch. I set it up to use my wireless NIC and I left the check mark for “Allow management operating system to share this network adapter”. Once it was done setting up the Network Bridge and the vEthernet interface I could no longer access the network. Read more
Thursday, 19. July 2012
When deploying Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange and enabling file filter the majority if not all emails being sent and received had the body of the message replaced with:
FILE QUARANTINED
Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange Server removed a file since it was found to match a filter.
File name: “winmail.dat”
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Saturday, 8. January 2011
I was tired of having all these invalid or untrusted certs on my network applications and devices so I decided to load up a CentOS box with OpenSSL and make my own Certificate Authority (CA). See the steps after the jump. Read more
Wednesday, 5. January 2011
I wanted to write a quick post about an issue that I ran into but could not find much information on. When running SQL 2008 R2 Management Studio on Windows 7 x64 ( I have not tried on 32 bit) there are a couple of catches.
- First one I ran into is the user must run the Management Studio as an administrator if they are in an active directory group that has been given access to a database because if Management Studio is not run as administrator then for some reason the users group information is not passed to the SQL server.
- Second is when connecting to a SQL 2005 server the user is not able to update or delete tables in a database. Creating a new table was not an issue it was just when modifying, updating or deleting an entry in a table or the entire table its self. The user was set to owner of the database and was not apart of any group.
The first issue is a pretty easy fix but I have not found a fix for the 2nd issue.