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 up, and examining the log files, I could see the following:
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.
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.
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 version of…
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 this, you…
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:
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.
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, I decided…
Need to rotate your logs for your Linux service(s)? Follow this guide to use logrotate to keep control over your logs.
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 did not…