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Configure OU permissions for Okta Active Directory agent

2 minute read

User PowerShell and dsacls to update the OU permissions for the Okta Active Directory agent.

Find AMI names with AWS PowerShell for Packer Filter

2 minute read

How to find the name of an AWS AMI using PowerShell that can be then used for a filter by Packer

Use PowerShell to get the lastest EC2 snapshots of all volumes attached to an instance

less than 1 minute read

May 2018

Using Docker container for Pester testing

2 minute read

August 2017

Windows 10 Search stopped working

1 minute read

On my main VM Windows 10 search stopped working along with input to the Edge browser

Get the public IP address of a network with Ansible

less than 1 minute read

Use Ansible and the ipify api to get the public IP address of the network you are currently connected to.

Using an Ansible role from github enterprise where authentication is required in a Jenkins job

2 minute read

How to use the SSH Agent plugin for Jenkins to authenticate to a Github Enterprise server to install an Ansible role

Get DynamoDB table names with Ansible and AWS Cli by tag values

1 minute read

Use Ansible to get AWS DynamoDB tables for automation. How to get the tables by specifying certain tag values.

Create AWS IAM instance profile for the CloudWatch agent with PowerShell.

2 minute read

Use PowerShell to create the required IAM EC2 instance profile for the CloudWatch agent to collect more system level metrics and send them to CloudWatch.

Starting EC2 instances by tag & EC2 Filters

3 minute read

Use PowerShell core to start AWS EC2 instances on a daily schedule and some useful EC2 filters for PowerShell

Tagging AWS EC2 unnamed EC2 volumes with a PowerShell Core lambda

3 minute read

This post will cover how to use PowerShell core running in a lambda to tag unnamed EC2 volumes.

Create AWS Backup Vault, Plan & Rule with PowerShell

4 minute read

How to use PowerShell to create a backup strategy with AWS backup.

Manage AWS IAM Users and groups with PowerShell

3 minute read

Overview of managing IAM Users and Roles in AWS using PowerShell

Create AWS EC2 instance with a custom volume size

5 minute read

Create an AWS EC2 instance with a specified volume size instead of the default size and tag with a Name and Description tag.

Deploy an AWS CloudFormation stack with PowerShell

2 minute read

Deploy a CloudFormation template into AWS with PowerShell and the AWS PowerShell module

Test-CFNTemplate PowerShell

1 minute read

How to test an AWS cloudformation template with PowerShell

Get the lastest Amazon AMIs using PowerShell

less than 1 minute read

June 2017

2 EC2 Instances and EIPs with AWS Cloudformation YAML

less than 1 minute read

June 2017

AWS Cloudformation with YAML

1 minute read

June 2017

Automate sending guest invites to Azure AD with PowerShell and Azure automation

5 minute read

Solution using PowerShell and Azure automation to send invites to guest users leveraging Azure AD B2B capabilities.

Azure Runbook to check last Active Directory to Azure AD sync time

4 minute read

Create an Azure Automation Runbook to check the last sync time between Active Directory and Azure AD.

Create Azure Automation Job triggered by a webhook with PowerShell

4 minute read

Create an Azure automation job that is triggered by a POST to a webhook with PowerShell and output data from the JSON payload

Connect to an Azure Linux vm with ssh and Windows Subsystem for Linux

5 minute read

How to create ssh keys and use them to connect to a Linux vm running on Azure

Stop Azure VMs with Azure Automation PowerShell runbook

5 minute read

Create a PowerShell run book to stop VMs with a certain tag value to automatically stop Azure VMs

Azure Automation PowerShell runbook failing to login to AzureRM

1 minute read

My Azure Automation PowerShell runbook started failing with the error Run Login-AzureRmAccount to login.

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part 4

3 minute read

Domain joining the management VM

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part 3

3 minute read

Creating a VM to manage Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part 2

1 minute read

Setting up Azure Active Directory Domain Services in the Portal

Azure Active Directory Domain Services Part 1

4 minute read

VNET setup for Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Deploy Storage to Azure via VSTS

4 minute read

July 2017

Create a self signed certificate for local development

4 minute read

Create a self signed certificate and use it with HAProxy and in the Windows store for local development with HTTPS sites

Azure SC-300 Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

6 minute read

Resources I used to pass the SC-300 Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Certification Exam.

Run Pester tests with Test Kitchen & Chef

1 minute read

Use Pester for integration testing for Chef recipes

Chocolatey fun, Windows package management

3 minute read

Using package management on Windows with Chocolatey and useful commands.

Use SSL Poke to test Java SSL connection

1 minute read

How to use SSL Poke to test Java SSL connections and verify the cacerts file has the correct certificates.

How to create JSON Web Key Sets (JWKS) with Python

1 minute read

Creating a JSON Web Key Sets (JWKS) with Python for use with an Okta service application to authenticate with Terraform.

Running Kubernetes on minikube and using authentication with Azure AD

3 minute read

I was asked to investigate how to authenticate our proof of concept

Permissions required to deploy to Azure from Dynamics 365 lifecycle services

1 minute read

How to set the correct permissions for the service account linking Microsoft Dynamics 365 lifecycle services and Azure DevOps to deploy to Azure.

Microsoft Graph App and Scope permissions.

Details including the IDs of the MS Graph permissions. Useful for deploying Azure AD applications via code.

Create VM images in Azure with Packer

8 minute read

How to use Packer with Azure to create custom virtual machine images for Azure vms.

How to call a Python script from PowerShell

1 minute read

Call a Python script passing an argument and saving return value in variable example.

Get list of AzureAD User Principal Names of Global Admins in Azure AD.

2 minute read

Use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module to get a list of User Principal Names of Global Admins Azure AD role.

Get list of AzureAD users by licence type

1 minute read

Use the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module to get a list of users consuming a particular licence.

Use PowerShell to extract an email address from a string

less than 1 minute read

Short post on how to use PowerShell and regex to extract an email address from a string.

Create an Azure DevOps build dashboard

8 minute read

Use the Universal Dashboard PowerShell module to display build data from Azure DevOps.

Use PowerShell to see UPN lengths of Active Directory users.

1 minute read

Small script that will get the UserPrincipalName lengths of all users in Active Directory and sort them by size.

Create an AWS CloudTrail trail for all regions with PowerShell

3 minute read

Use PowerShell and the AWS module to create a CloudTrail trail for all regions that captures S3 and Lamda events and saves the logs to S3.

Manage multiple Azure accounts with PowerShell using AzContext cmdlets

2 minute read

Using the AzContext cmdlets to manage multiple Azure environments and subscriptions

Use PowerShell Core and the AZ module to manage Azure Active Directory Users and Groups

5 minute read

Going over the basics of using the AZ PowerShell module to manage users and groups in Azure Active Directory. This post was crafted on Ubuntu 18.04

Get EC2 details with PowerShell

1 minute read

Use AWS PowerShell module to get basic EC2 information including the AMI name used to create the instance.

Finding installed software with PowerShell on Windows

3 minute read

How to find installed software on Windows using PowerShell

Updating TeamCity build step parameters using PowerShell

4 minute read

How to pass variable between build steps in TeamCity using PowerShell

Create and remove Azure Container Instances from a TeamCity build

8 minute read

Create Azure container instances from a TeamCity build job to run tests against. Use a service principal to authenticate and carry out actions against an Azu...