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Bookmarklets for Scheduled Tasks in ServiceNow (creation and direct URL)

Little helpers for ServiceNow ScheduledTasks

Posted on May 3, 2018

So, recently we’ve moved over to ServiceNow for incident/request management. There are two things I wanted to be able to do: [Read More]

Listing Documents via Jekyll without collections

How to avoid configuration files for document meta-data? Just use the file names!

Posted on April 26, 2018

Recently, I moved all of our static sites over to hosting on github using github pages. Github uses jekyll for generation of the static content and there are tons of themes out there to utilize. [Read More]

Running PiHole on a Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm

Victory Pi(Hole)!

Posted on April 17, 2018

OK, so this was a bit entertaining. There are a ton of articles out there on how to get a Docker Swarm running on a RasPi cluster. Basically, just get all of the Pis up, updated, and setup with static/reserved IPs, then install docker, then run the docker swarm init... [Read More]

Add Global Admin Directory Role in Azure AD via Powershell CLI

RBAC, why do you hate me?

Posted on April 16, 2018

Note that this won’t work in the azure portal powershell console or in a docker container as those do not seem to be able to let you login to the azure ad interactively. [Read More]

Setting up Raspberry Pi Zero redundant PiHole Ad Blocker

Block Ads on your Network

Posted on April 14, 2018

I am a big fan of pihole. I had used it a little bit off and on for a couple of years a while back, and finally implemented it as a permanent part of my home network a couple of years ago. I’ve been a happy camper ever since. [Read More]

VMware Snapshot Removal Stuck At 99 Percent

To cancel or not to cancel?

Posted on April 12, 2018

So recently we were performing some patching on a critical server in production. This server had not been rebooted or patched in many years due to downtime concerns, but the time had come that it needed to be patched as the system had become unstable forcing us to do the... [Read More]

Queue up or pre-download windows updates with powershell

How did we get here?

Posted on April 3, 2018

I hope no one reading this ever actually has to do this. In my case, I have some old’ish servers that have very limited downtime windows. While I was updating these I noticed that a lot of them still did not actually ‘download’ the updates even though they were set... [Read More]

Quick Performance Monitoring from Powershell

but why tho

Posted on April 2, 2018

If, you wanted to take a quick peak, using powershell, on some performance metric and show it in write-progress, here’s how you would do it. [Read More]

Get Windows Update Info via Powershell/COM

A Difficult Simple Thing

Posted on March 28, 2018

I have recently needed to check what windows updates have been applied to a number of machines. What I ended up using was something like this: [Read More]

Setting up PowerShell on my RasPi

What's easier than pie? Prepping the RasPi for PowerShell!

Posted on March 25, 2018

I own several raspis that I have fiddled around with for various reasons over the years. Recently, the only one I have had running anything permanently is my pihole. It works great, but generally the raspi is fairly dormant so I wanted to perhaps get some other items running on... [Read More]