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Block Level Clone of HDD

I am attempting to pull this info into a script that would prompt the individual running it for details. Info such as the name of the output name, credentials used to mount network shares, selection of the drive which will be cloned. Below are steps that work, wondering if I can build a script around […]

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vSphere Customization Specification and Ubuntu 17.10

Has anyone noticed issues with #vSphere Customization Specification and #Ubuntu 17.10 (GNU/Linux 4.13.0-25-generic x86_64) – Now that the network settings are located in: /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml, I’m back to manually updating IP information (Server Naming still works). Although the traditional /etc/network/interfaces reflects the information provided by the customization process, the host still acquires a DHCP issued address. After some digging […]

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Network Wide Ad & Malicious Website Blocking | Pi-Hole

For a few months now I have used the software package named Pi-Hole as an internal network DNS server to prevent ad sites in addition to malicious websites from being accessible form compute resources on my home network. Pi-Hole is a small install that can be installed on any Linux system and it works like […]

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Tech Short: How To Change The MTU – Server 2016

  Troubleshooting an application issues which could possibly be network related.  I found myself needing to make some adjustment to the maximum transmission unit (MTU) setting of my server.  As such what better time to post a quick technical short on how to go about doing this.   How To Change The MTU – Windows Server […]

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Disable Windows Firewall Server Core

Server Core now installed and what is the first command I choose to run in PowerShell Its a command to disable all firewall profiles: netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state off  

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TechShort: PowerShell to Setup VPN Connections

Here is a way we can be consistent with our setup of VPN connections on computers. Using PowerShell this is made simple with a small script on a USB stick, network share or whatever method you choose to get the to the client machine The following is a one line PowerShell command: Add-VpnConnection -Name “VPN Connection Name” […]