Information I often come across situations where some unlucky IT Admin is tasked with finding out what happened to X file(s) on a Windows file server or system. When they start their investigation, they come to find out that they are unable to find out who did what to a…
The goal of this post is to share my experience and to teach and help others who need it, to make life easier. I want to focus on building some usable PowerShell functions to get you automating with Azure Automation PowerShell Runbooks (and PowerShell itself) using MS Graph API, in…
There are a lot of ways to back up Linux, but it might not immediately be clear how you would go about backing up your VPS (Virtual Private Server) when you have no place to store your backups. This will be from a personal point of view, not enterprise, but…
The Win10 crAPP Remover PowerShell script GUI is a PowerShell script used to granularly remove unneeded or unwanted applications and settings from Windows 10 easily via an intuitive GUI without installing anything, with minimal requirements, and without the need to run the script with switches or edit anything within the…
In this post, my goal is to provide the steps one must take in a typical non-domain environment to set up Hyper-V Server 2016 and remotely manage it via Hyper-V Manager from a Windows 10 PC. I will split this post into three sections; what to do on the Hyper-V…
UPDATE April 2018: I found a really nice MIT course at edX.org “Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python” and jumped into that. I’m still deep into that in my spare time and it’s going great! I do recommend it. I’ve recently become a little interested in getting my…
How often do you wish you didn’t have to spin up a full blown Windows File Server, but would rather spin up a minimal Linux Samba file server with Microsoft AD for authentication instead? Spinning up a Linux file server running Samba and using MS Active Directory for authentication via…
Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a browser-based, locally deployed management tool for IT Admins to manage Windows Server and Windows 10 systems. Windows Admin Center is now production ready and will continue to grow and mature. In this post, I’m just going to cover the bare-basics of getting it up…
This guide assumes you already have a working LAMP server, and have already met the WordPress requirements. Prerequisites The WordPress requirements as of 2018 February: PHP 7.2 or greater MySQL 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB 10.0 or greater Nginx or Apache with mod_rewrite module HTTPS support PHP-JSON (required for wp-cli)…
This will guide you through the process of setting up a Fedora 27 LAMP server with SSL (https) from Let’s Encrypt. Installing Fedora 27 Install Fedora 27 via Net Install ISO. In Software Selection, select Minimal Install. It may take a minute to download metadata before you can go in…
