Installing RSAT in 1909+ Online or Offline
In previous versions of Windows and early versions of Windows 10 RSAT was installed via an update package or .msu file. Recent versions of Windows 10/11 have...
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powershell
Using Signed RDP Certificates
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
Finding certs that are self-signed or have an untrusted-root
I needed to find all of the self-signed certificates on my machine so I whipped up a tiny function to do it. The largest caveat is the inability to distingui...
Send-MailMessage : Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed
I was having issues with emails for my various backup scripts not sending emails with my submodule, I was seeing hit or miss results but I mostly disregarded...
AD Backups in PowerShell
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
Windows CA Backups in Powershell
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
DHCP Backups in PowerShell
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
DNS Backups in PowerShell
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
Using an email script in a submodule to simplify your life
Updated on 2022-02-08 for Send-MailMessage issue
backups
AD Backups in PowerShell
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
Windows CA Backups in Powershell
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
DHCP Backups in PowerShell
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
DNS Backups in PowerShell
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
windows_server
Using Signed RDP Certificates
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
0x800f0922 and FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
Send-MailMessage : Unable to read data from the transport connection: net_io_connectionclosed
I was having issues with emails for my various backup scripts not sending emails with my submodule, I was seeing hit or miss results but I mostly disregarded...
obsidian
Obsidian CSS Snippets
I have not written a full post on how I use Obsidian yet but I talked about it in the first post here. I plan to write more in the future but for the mean ti...
Publishing to Github Pages with Obsidian
Reasons I used to host a personal Bookstack and still host one for r/Techsupport but I realized that putting all of my notes into a public cloud was a waste ...
truenas
Using rclone to recover data from Backblaze buckets
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
TrueNAS alert on Cloud Task Failure
I use FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core) as my backup destination for everything in my lab, I push these backups offsite to Backblaze on a schedule using Cloud Sync...
windows_ca
Using Signed RDP Certificates
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
Windows CA Backups in Powershell
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
RHEL
Getting started with RHEL Kickstart files
RedHat and its derivatives can utilize special configuration files called “Kickstart files” to make installation automated and repeatable. I wanted to explor...
RHEL 8 Migration
My current project is moving off CentOS 7 to RHEL 8. I am doing this partly due to the deprecation of CentOS 8 into Stream but also I want to redo everything...
github
Publishing to Github Pages with Obsidian
Reasons I used to host a personal Bookstack and still host one for r/Techsupport but I realized that putting all of my notes into a public cloud was a waste ...
homelab
TrueNAS alert on Cloud Task Failure
I use FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core) as my backup destination for everything in my lab, I push these backups offsite to Backblaze on a schedule using Cloud Sync...
rhel
RHEL Developer Setup
I want to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for my homelab, I am currently on CentOS 7 and due to the CentOS 8/Stream shennanigans I believe that just mi...
jekyll
Theming my code and Gist blocks in Jekyll
While the default code blocks are OK in this theme (Minimal Mistakes) I wanted something more “me” that blended better into the Dark skin. The official docs ...
windows_dns
DNS Backups in PowerShell
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
windows_dhcp
DHCP Backups in PowerShell
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
active_directory
AD Backups in PowerShell
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
backblaze
Using rclone to recover data from Backblaze buckets
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
rclone
Using rclone to recover data from Backblaze buckets
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
freenas
Using rclone to recover data from Backblaze buckets
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
xencenter
Windows Media Player randomly opening (in XenCenter console)
I was troubleshooting a server that was not liking RDP, so I was interacting with it via the XenCenter console. For some reason this server (Server 2016) kep...
onedrive
Proactive OneDrive Monitoring
Microsoft is very keen on pushing OneDrive, anyone who has stood up a Windows 10/11 workstation recently knows that.
azure
Making a Hard Link Between On-Prem and Azure-AD Users
When moving from on-prem to 365 you may be left with a .local TLD in addition to a proper public .com or whatever domain. When making a new user in AD you wi...
O365
Making a Hard Link Between On-Prem and Azure-AD Users
When moving from on-prem to 365 you may be left with a .local TLD in addition to a proper public .com or whatever domain. When making a new user in AD you wi...
linux
Using .deb files on non-debian systems
While using Solus I found some apps that were not in the repos like Obisidian and Tabby. I stumbled upon this post on the Solus forums that talked about usin...
xen
0x800f0922 and FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
XCP-NG
0x800f0922 and FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
Homelab
RHEL 8 Migration
My current project is moving off CentOS 7 to RHEL 8. I am doing this partly due to the deprecation of CentOS 8 into Stream but also I want to redo everything...
windows
Installing RSAT in 1909+ Online or Offline
In previous versions of Windows and early versions of Windows 10 RSAT was installed via an update package or .msu file. Recent versions of Windows 10/11 have...