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[HOWTO] Fix EventLog Invalid Handle and Powershell Invalid Class

tolecnal December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 General No Comments

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 I fixed it.

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[HOWTO] No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 5

tolecnal November 30, 2021December 3, 2021 General 1 Comment

After upgrading from Windows 2012 R2 to Windows 2019, the SharePoint Management Console failed to load its snap-in. How is here I fixed it.

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[HOWTO] apt upgrade fails – dpkg: error processing package grub-common

tolecnal November 1, 2021December 3, 2021 General No Comments

Quite recently I have seen some cases of apt failing when doing package upgrades. It seems like there is a change in the package grub-common that breaks on some systems, but works well on others. Systems installed with the same

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[HOWTO] Pretty print AWS encoded authorization failure message

tolecnal September 14, 2021December 3, 2021 General No Comments

When working with AWS command line tools such as aws or their PowerShell tools, you will from time to time encounter that the error message for the failing command will be an encoded error message. To be able to view

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[HOWTO] Fix broken pip/pip3 in Ubuntu – f”ERROR: {exc}”

tolecnal March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 General No Comments

So the other day I was upgrading some old test instances and setting up some roles using Ansible and the role geerlingguy.pip, and ran into an issue. The issue was that pip simply wouldn’t work, throwing the below error message:

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[HOWTO] Transferring Route53 domains between Amazon AWS accounts

tolecnal March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 General No Comments

Ever had the need to transfer a registered Route53 domain from one AWS account to the other? Follow this guide to transfer your domains using PowerShell.

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[HOWTO] Create list of ISO3166 Language Codes in Debian/Ubuntu

tolecnal November 10, 2020December 3, 2021 General No Comments

The other day I needed to create a list of ISO3166 language codes in the following format: ‘XX’,’YY’,’ZZ’. Being lazy, and also a fan of performing a bit of bash oneliner magic, or oneliner golf as some refer to it,

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[HOWTO] Using wildcards with logrotate

tolecnal November 6, 2020December 3, 2021 General No Comments

Need to rotate your logs for your Linux service(s)? Follow this guide to use logrotate to keep control over your logs.

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[HOWTO] Tag EC2 instances based on platform type

tolecnal October 1, 2020December 3, 2021 General No Comments

Recently I had the need to tag all our EC2 instances based on the platform, as I wanted to create resource groups based on the actual underlying platform used for the EC2 instances. Much to my surprise the AWS console

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An open letter to the people of USA

tolecnal November 7, 2016 1 Comment

  For the first time ever, I’m worried senseless about an election in the US. This election is one of the most important elections in modern history, and stands to shift the political climate not only for the US, but

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