[HOWTO] Could not find a login matching the name provided. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
Jostein Elvaker Haande In the process of expanding my home lab, I ran into an issue as I was setting up a Microsoft SQL Server instance in my network. The installation breezed through…
[HOWTO] Upgrade all Python packages after Ubuntu distribution upgrade
If you are anything like me, you use Python extensively for a wide range of different tasks. My main usage for Python is through Ansible, a tool I use often.…
[HOWTO] GitLab – Remove Two Factor Authentication (MFA) from an account in the database
The other day I was faced with the challenge of restoring an old backup of a GitLab instance. This is in itself is fairly straightforward process, as long as you…
[HOWTO] Get the main group name for a username using Ansible
The other day I needed a way to get the main group of a user account in a playbook in Ansible. I figured there was a way to do this…
[HOWTO] Setup secondary network card (NIC) on Ubuntu in AWS
This simple how-to enables a secondary network card on an Ubuntu instance running Amazon AWS EC2. It assumes a setup where the primary network card is in a private subnet,…
[HOWTO] – Get a list of repositories from Docker Hub using PowerShell
The other day, I had the need to get a list of all the repositories from an organization in DockerHub to gather some statistics. Being a huge advocate I wanted…
[HOWTO] – PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest is very slow
Preface If you have ever used the PowerShell cmdlet Invoke-WebRequest to download content, you might have observed that it is terribly slow. Files that typically download within seconds with any…
[HOWTO] Active Directory Replication fails – The target principal name is incorrect (-2146893022 (0x80090322))
I was doing some maintenance work on one of the many different environments I help maintain today when I noticed that Active Directory replication failed to one of the Domain…
[HOWTO] EC2Launch – agent failed to assume identity
The other day I stumbled upon a string of similar events logged from some of my Windows EC2 instances in regards to the SSM Agent. It simply refused to start…
[HOWTO] Fix EventLog Invalid Handle and Powershell Invalid Class
After upgrading to Windows Server 2019, both the Event Log and Powershell commands on the servers displayed errors about Invalid Handle and Invalid Class. This is a howto on how…