Notes on software, side projects, and figuring things out.https://souldo.net/https://souldo.net/blog/using-chocolatey-templates/https://souldo.net/blog/using-chocolatey-templates/This is a bit of a following up to the previous post, A Quick Chocolatey Packaging Walkthrough. In this post we'll walk through making a template that can simplify and accelerate your package creation process. Get your…Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/a-quick-chocolatey-packaging-walkthrough/https://souldo.net/blog/a-quick-chocolatey-packaging-walkthrough/With the new school year and a gaggle of "virtual learning" children in the home, I've been spending a lot of time rebuilding and repurposing laptops lately. What was previously an awful, time-consuming process has been…Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/new-puppet-dsc-lite-module/https://souldo.net/blog/new-puppet-dsc-lite-module/Puppet released a "lite" version of the DSC module today (release here. I've recently hit a wall where I needed to add a couple of DSC resources that weren't in the main module and figuring out the previous process was…Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/convoluted-blogging-part-one/https://souldo.net/blog/convoluted-blogging-part-one/So as mentioned in a previous post, I've been spending a lot of time lately trying to vet different cloud technologies for hosting a simple web app, and I've opted to use this blog as the guinea pig. It's been quite the…Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/make-blogging-hard-again/https://souldo.net/blog/make-blogging-hard-again/Why blog after so long? Well, mostly as a use case for working on various automation tooling and to dig more into containers on Windows.Sat, 10 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/getting-familiar-with-windows-server-2016-administration/https://souldo.net/blog/getting-familiar-with-windows-server-2016-administration/Late last year I was asked if I had interest in making a video on the basics of Windows Server 2016 system administration for Packt Publishing. It has been a great experience and I'm happy to say that as of last week…Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/windows-10-and-net-3-5/https://souldo.net/blog/windows-10-and-net-3-5/Call this group policy fail #436.Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/internet-explorer-disable-first-run/https://souldo.net/blog/internet-explorer-disable-first-run/I’ve been dealing with building packages in Chocolatey quite a bit lately, and one of the things I’ve run into is trying to get ZIP files to play nice when they need to be retrieved from Invoke-WebRequest. When…Sat, 07 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/windows-powershell-and-puppet-structured-facts-slight-return/https://souldo.net/blog/windows-powershell-and-puppet-structured-facts-slight-return/At the end of part one, I built a custom Puppet structured fact to relate the Powershell and .NET version information from a Powershell Object to a Ruby Hash that was readable by Facter. The end result was, well, a pile…Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/windows-powershell-and-puppet-structured-facts/https://souldo.net/blog/windows-powershell-and-puppet-structured-facts/The Goal: I need to return the versions of PowerShell and the latest .NET framework installed as facts.Thu, 05 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/how-to-generate-a-puppet-certificate-with-dns-alt-names/https://souldo.net/blog/how-to-generate-a-puppet-certificate-with-dns-alt-names/(for use with creating additional compilers)Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://souldo.net/blog/hyper-v-and-the-virtual-floppy/https://souldo.net/blog/hyper-v-and-the-virtual-floppy/I’ve been working on automating builds in Hyper-V using Powershell and given that for some reason every OS seems to need either a PXE setup or a floppy disk to auto-provision, I took the road that took fewer additional…Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT