Once you stop learning, your career starts to die
Working in IT is hard. Not to say I do not enjoy what I do, but working in a field...
Setting Up Your First Puppet Master Server
If you’re managing servers and aren’t using an infrastructure-as-code solution such as Puppet, Ansible or Chef, be warned: you should...
Installing Your First Vagrant Box
Vagrant is one of those tools that you may have heard about before but just have not used yet, but...
Increase PowerShell remoting security with two simple techniques
In this article, I will discuss two simple methods to improve PowerShell remoting security. The first is by temporarily increasing...
PowerCLI examples for advanced VMware tasks
When it comes to making sense of data intelligently, programming can help significantly. PowerCLI combined with some PowerShell is a...
Don’t become the (insert technology here) guy
Throughout my career I have enjoyed learning many different technologies such as Active Directory, Exchange, PowerShell and Linux. I would...
Beginners guide to the PowerShell community leaders
So you are new to PowerShell. You are enjoying the experience of getting to know the language but you still...
Tracing Malicious Activity On Windows With Sysmon
For Windows IT professionals, perhaps the most popular set of troubleshooting tools is Sysinternals, the creation of none other than...
Startup and shutdown a VMware cluster with PowerCLI and PowerShell
It is possible to use a GUI to start up and shut down VMware vSphere clusters, but as we all...
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...