Dec 2015

Password Expired

You ever have that one user that calls you on a trip and says, yeah i’m getting the password expired message. Of course they’re either a critical, high up person, or on a system that you know will wreak havoc if you push a new password to them. Every once in a while this happens to me. Of course, its clearly the users fault for ignoring the 14 days of

So, yeah…  Do what?  Why would you ever move a 2003 server to Azure?   Don’t you know its end of life? Ok, hear me out, but there are times when companies do silly things like install applications that get well rooted, but then the software company goes under or the team that took care of the application was laid off and it went into the the “just reboot it”

With Azure, you’ll see a few standards – a Windows server usually has a C:\ Drive with ~100gb free when you select it from the gallery. A linux server usually has a 30gb sda disk free. Sometimes you need just a tad more on the primary or you have added a second disk and you want some more there as well. Currently, there’s no way to do it in the

One thing that always appeals to me is the power of automation.  I took a Puppet course last year and really started to get more involved with a larger picture of things that I was automating on a much smaller scale via powershell and older versions of batch files I’d been comfortable with since the 90’s. I picked up a powershell course at Microsoft Ignite on Thursday night lead by