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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…
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.
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…
Call this group policy fail #436.
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…
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…
The Goal: I need to return the versions of PowerShell and the latest .NET framework installed as facts.
(for use with creating additional compilers)
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…