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Jan 17, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Lab environments are essential to lots of people in IT, including system administrators needing to test out the latest software or software developers needing to deploy their own custom software to test before rolling it out to production.
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Jan 14, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Creating excellent PowerShell scripts is one thing, but sharing them with others takes them to a whole new level! One of the best ways to improve your PowerShell skills, share your scripts with the community, and make your work known is by publishing scripts to the ...
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Jan 11, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Kevin Conklin
You likely already realize that file transfers using the file transfer protocol (FTP) expose your sensitive data to high risks.
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Jan 9, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
Chances are if you are managing servers in an organization, you have also had a lot of experience managing SSL certificates. Practically any web server should be communicating over HTTPS to clients if you want to make it secure, which means you have to deploy an SSL...
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Jan 7, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
There once was a time where the worlds of Microsoft and Linux were greatly at odds. Each faction trying to destroy the other and win the war of the operating systems. Times have changed.
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Dec 19, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Michael O'Dwyer
In the computing world, virtualization by way of virtual machines is used to describe a method of avoiding the purchase of multiple physical computers or servers, one for each operating system.
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Dec 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
Vagrant is one of those tools that you may have heard about before but just have not used yet, but once you decide to use it, it will probably end up in your tool belt.
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Dec 14, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
One of the main goals of MOVEit Managed File Transfer, and Ipswitch as a whole, has been to help IT teams work more efficiently.
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Dec 10, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
If 2017 was the year of the ransomware attack, then 2018, insofar as it can be defined by malware, was the year of cryptojacking.
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Dec 10, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Greg Mooney
It’s the proverbial 1,000-pound gorilla—a compliance violation. Perhaps you haven’t seen one yet, but you know it’s out there lurking, and it just might come banging on your door any day now.
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Dec 7, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
While it supports Windows and Linux, creating an OS image is vastly different between the two. In this article, I will focus on how Packer is used for Windows OS image creation.
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Dec 5, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
Today, the world's largest hotel chain, Marriott International, disclosed what may be turn out to be one of the largest data breaches in history.
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Dec 3, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the most popular cloud platform and Packer provides great integration that enables users to import builds into AWS and convert them to Amazon Machine Images (AMI).
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Nov 29, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Michael O'Dwyer
In the BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance) industry,
choosing a managed file transfer solution is rather simplified as FTP alone is not enough to meet the necessary regulatory and compliance requirements.
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Nov 28, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
Collaboration is of utmost importance in the modern workplace, but when done incorrectly, a collaborative environment can also be an insecure one. Here's how you can allow increased workplace collaboration, without reducing security.
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Nov 26, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
One “free” solution for deploying Chocolatey packages remotely is PowerShell. Using PowerShell remoting techniques, software can be deployed in parallel on many different machines at once. In this article, I will demonstrate this.
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Nov 16, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Running commands locally on the remote computers is a common task many IT admins have to do every day. Here's how you can do that in PowerShell.
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Nov 9, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Nate Lewis
"The call is coming from inside the house...” This line from 1979’s When a Stranger Calls terrorized audiences by introducing the notion that the things we should be most fearful of may be in the spaces we feel most safe. This idea translates neatly to the enterprise...
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Nov 7, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Greg Mooney
Shadow IT is a real problem in the modern workplace. In this episode of Defrag This, we explore the reasons users turn to the dark side, the risks of unsanctioned IT stacks, and some of the solutions IT teams can use to curb Shadow IT.
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Nov 7, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
In this article, I will show how to deploy the Chocolatey Agent Service which allows end users to use a GUI to choose what packages to install or uninstall.
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