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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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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