A short post while I am thinking about this - because I sorta figured it out. I am still working on sunsetting my monolithic server (well, it's a glorified desktop with relatively more storage than other hosts on my network), and was working on setting up CheckMK on a newly minted VM. CheckMK is an open-source …

Whelp, I'm not really certain how I got here.. but at some point, I wound up with a pair of computers running Proxmox with the intent of running Kubernetes. It started out pretty innocently: I watched a TechnoTim video: And it looked neat enough, so sure.. why not, let's try that out. In the video, around the 6:00 …

I am not very good at networking stuff together. I mean, if it's a simple network, I can usually manage. When it comes to thinking about VLANs and similar topics, I start to get a bit hazy.. but when it gets into configuring devices to carry VLAN traffic, I really need to get back to basics and do a lot of "Ok, …

I have this short little PowerShell function that I use all over the place. It simply adds an ACL entry to an object, usually a network folder: 1function AddNTFSPermissions($path, $object, $permission) { 2 $FileSystemRights = [System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemRights]$permission 3 $InheritanceFlag = …

The problem... I have something like 1200 PDfs, and the list is growing, of deliverables that we own the copywrite to that we want to put in a central place called SharePoint Online. This library will then get the benefit of being searchable, have associated metadata, and should free up time from a bunch of people for …

The Issue We have been working on a long, slow project to bring some new services online for our staff. One is our "Knowledge Hub", the other is our "Connect" site - a SharePoint Hub site, linking various functional group's SharePoint sites together. This post is about "Connect". One …

Another post with notes from my former to my future self. What was I trying to do? We had to wire up a firewall configuration policy for a group of computers so that they'd be prevented from accessing the internet. Ok, no problem, except that our email comes from Office 365 which happens to be on the internet. …

The problem to solve... Every so often, I need to automate something. Duh. Today, I would like to manage the group memberships of some Azure AD users. This doesn't require any local resources so there's no reason to run this on-premise. There's also no need to store credentials in the script - that's what managed …

A while back, scrolling through YouTube, I stumbled across a video titled "High Availability Pi-Hole? Yes Please!", which I thought was interesting - it seemed to address a problem that I didn't really think I had.. but why not poke around at it? Pi-Hole is a network-wide ad blocking DNS server. It can …

One more issue to solve... We have one domain controller at work that is kinda critical to the entire operation. I mean, not like this particular server is the only AD server on the site, but it somehow became only LDAPS server responsible for authentication for non-AD enabled services. Like VPN. Like our ERP. So when …