Add AWS CLI to Windows Terminal
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by John
1y ago
I am a fan of Windows Terminal and some of the recent things Microsoft seem to be doing for SysAdmins. I like having all the tools I need in a single spot. Adding the AWS CLI is fairly straight forward but makes life a heap easier. Start by installing Python from python.org if you don’t already have it on your machine. Once installed (take note of the version, which as of publishing is 3.11... Source ..read more
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Hide the Bing button in Edge
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by John
1y ago
I’m not a fan of the Bing button that now appears in Edge. Microsoft seem to have rushed it out as there isn’t an easy way to remove it. We’ll do this via a registry key (that can also be deployed via Group Policy) Close out of Microsoft Edge completely and open the Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoft. Right-click on the Microsoft folder and select New > Key... Source ..read more
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Adopt Unifi Access Point over Internet or VPN using SSH
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by John
1y ago
If you’ve shipped some Ubiquiti Unifi Wireless access points to a remote site before adopting them or happen to have your controller on another network, you can log into them via SSH and point them to your Unifi controller. It performs discovery via basic L2 broadcast and DNS resolution of hostname unifi, if either of these methods do not reach a controller then you can follow these steps. Source ..read more
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Fixing Maximum connections reached by Clearing Connected Sessions on an APC UPS
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by John
2y ago
I was trying to log into an APC UPS with the correct login but still received an error, The maximum number of web connections has been reached or simply Maximum connections reached. Knowing I had the right login credentials, and that no one else was logged into, I was a little perplexed. There is a straight forward fix but can be a little annoying. Open up your favorite SSH client and connect via... Source ..read more
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Automate Lets Encrypt Renewals using Certify the web on Windows with Atlassian Jira behind a Apache Reverse Proxy
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by John
3y ago
So been a while since my last post. I’ve been recently pushing our machines into Azure as well as automating as much as possible. We’ve got an internal Jira instance that we use. It is still running totally on a VM with no fancy Azure PaaS features on it. I have a Lets Encrypt SSL certificate managed using Certify the Web. I am running the free and awesome Community Edition and have added a number... Source ..read more
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Queries for troubleshooting the Database Mail (dbmail) function of Microsoft SQL Server
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by John
4y ago
So just a quick one today. I was recently working on a SQL Server, running through some Database Mail setup and testing (see Microsoft Docs) with one of our applications. I needed a way to see what e-mails were being sent out as well as what wasn’t. The below queries will give you the info I was after, the first one shows any items that have run through DB Mail and their details for the last... Source ..read more
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Get the last Reboot or Shutdown reason and user from the Windows Event Log
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by John
4y ago
Start by going into Event Viewer (Windows+R or the Start Menu and type eventvwr.msc). Navigate to the System Log under Windows, we then want to use Filter Current Log to allow us to only show Events with certain attributes (such as Source or IDs). In our case, we want to filter on Event Source: USER32. Then for Event IDs we want to see only 1074. If you are after unexpected shutdowns, use 6008. Source ..read more
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Enabling BitLocker with Group Policy and backing up Existing BitLocker recovery keys to Active Directory
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by John
4y ago
So getting BitLocker enabled in an Active Directory environment is fairly painless and helps to get your end user devices more Secure. I’ll outline the steps you need to take to enable it as well as get the recovery keys stored in Active Directory. I’ll also dive into replicating this setup on Azure AD/Intune in a future post. First thing is to create a new GPO (i.e. Configure –. Source ..read more
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Windows 10 May 2019 or 1903 Software Update Management Changes for WSUS and Config Manager
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by John
4y ago
We’ve started to deploy the latest release of Windows 10 and it’s interesting to note that Microsoft have released with little fan-fare some changes to the way Updates are deployed for the 1903 release. Microsoft are now pushing updates through what is called the Unified Update Platform (see this RPC Mag article). Anyway, the main thing is there is now a new product category for WSUS... Source ..read more
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Copying files from one server to another as a different user (two separate domains) using PowerShell
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by John
4y ago
I’ve been working on needed to copy a number of files from one client site to another, my issue is that they have separate Active Directory domains and there is no trust between them. Using PowerShell, we can save a user credential and then use that to map a network drive with them and perform our copy. We will setup the credential to be stored in a text file, although a cool feature of... Source ..read more
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