Managing VMware ESXi services with PowerCLI
ESXi hosts are Linux-based servers. Thus, it certainly helps if sysadmins understand Linux in order to manage and troubleshoot the...
Save yourself hours of time with this PowerShell PSReadline tweak
As someone who is absolutely obsessed with automation, I am always looking for little hacks or tweaks to make myself...
Automating Chocolatey package internalizing with PowerShell
Many organizations are turning to Chocolatey to manage their Windows packages, and for good reason. Chocolatey allows sysadmins to manage...
A recruiters guide to dealing with introvert IT candidates
Having been in the IT field for 10 years and worked at three organizations, I have dealt with many different...
WSUS Server is piece of hot garbage
I honestly cannot tell you how much time I have spent fixing a broken WSUS server, but it is way...
Chocolatey Is Quite Yummy
When it comes to package management, Windows has historically been far behind Linux. With Chocolatey, Windows users can now get...
Install OpenSSH on Windows for PowerShell Core remoting via SSH
If you have been following the developments over the last year on PowerShell Core, you’ll know that the PowerShell team has...
Deploying Windows Software with Puppet and Chocolatey
We live in a world of IT automation and currently, Microsoft is behind Linux in terms of having DevOps tools....
How I caught the coding bug
For the first few years of my IT career, I was strictly a point-and-click Windows admin. Installing a package? Click,...
Managing the VMware datastore with PowerCLI (PowerShell)
In a VMware vSphere environment, a datastore is the basic building block for storage. You can use a few different...