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[HOWTO] GitLab – Remove Two Factor Authentication (MFA) from an account in the database

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-11-16 0 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] Get the main group name for a username using Ansible

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-11-09 0 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] Setup secondary network card (NIC) on Ubuntu in AWS

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-10-23 0 Comments

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,…

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[HOWTO] – Get a list of repositories from Docker Hub using PowerShell

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-10-06 0 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] – PowerShell’s Invoke-WebRequest is very slow

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-10-04 0 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] Active Directory Replication fails – The target principal name is incorrect (-2146893022 (0x80090322))

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2023-06-28 0 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] EC2Launch – agent failed to assume identity

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2022-10-03 1 Comments

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…

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[HOWTO] Fix EventLog Invalid Handle and Powershell Invalid Class

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2021-12-06 0 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…

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

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2021-11-30 2 Comments

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

Jostein Elvaker HaandeJostein Elvaker Haande 2021-11-01 0 Comments

I have recently 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…

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Jostein Elvaker Haande

Computer nerd and amateur photographer

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