Tag: SysAdmin

No. Fastest completion time ever OR maybe we need to go into more detail? Okay, to explain my conclusion, I need to go back to the origins of both protocols.

The future is here and now! These are the top 3 new technologies that will make IT's life that much easier in 2020.

In this article, we’ll look at the ways to publish your draft runbook and to trigger it to run manually and linking it to a schedule. We’ll also look at how we can check the logs of the previous runbook executions.

In this article, we’ll prepare the test automation project and I’ll show you how to use these assets to test our draft runbook.

One of the most significant issues faced in a Microsoft Windows environment is the ability to steal credentials and utilize these credentials to move throughout the network laterally.

Adversaries can utilize MITM attacks to steal credentials, even when they are protected by SSL.

One of the most popular automation tools is Azure Automation and this will be a series of posts covering the introduction to Azure Automation, creating automation runbooks, dealing with assets, testing and publishing runbooks.

If you are a small or medium business, you may have left your data backups in the hands of outside help or, even worse, to chance.

In enterprise environments, you will usually find an array of different Windows operating systems, hardware and of course software. Typically, machines are managed and configured with group policy and SCCM, or perhaps other more modern methods like Chef or Puppet. One of...

In this article, we discuss how to grant users simple admin rights temporarily like installing software. This helps keep IT from getting bogged down.

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.

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.

Tired of managing Windows system administration tasks manually? Wish you could set up a few Python scripts instead? Where there's a will, there's a way! In this article, we'll show you how to install Python's WMI module and how you can use it to perform system...

There are times when you have a complex script that you just need to get into configuration management. Re-writing scripts into manifests is time-consuming, no doubt about it. In this article, I will show how to run PowerShell scripts from Puppet.