DevOps

Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Origin on Azure in minutes!

Out of the box, OpenShift will give you a production ready solution for deploying containers at scale and tooling to easily integrate your CI/CD pipelines.  This article aims to demonstrate a quick to deploy Open...

Azure – Running Ansible Playbooks using Azure Cloud Shell

This article is an extension to our previous primer on using Azure Cloud Shell – Azure CLI Primer – Azure Cloud Shell This article aims to unlock the power of Ansible within Azure Cloud Shell. In the previous artic...

Security Hardening Linux Systems with OpenSCAP

This article will cover off the basics of SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) and using OpenSCAP to Harden our Linux based OS. We will show you how easy it is to proactively scan and lock down our systems to ensu...

Eclipse Development using Docker (Mac OS) – LAMP Stack

In this blog I will show you how easy it is to test code locally when using Eclipse IDE on a Mac. Rather than converting our local machine into a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server, we will use the power of Docker t...

Using LDIFDE to export/import Active Directory

Need to migrate a Active Directory from your current domain to a completely new domain? This can be daunting task which I will advise how simple it can really be by using a couple of simple tools. We will be using LDIFDE...

WMI – Auditing computer information in Active Directory (VB)

There are times when you need to programmatically query Active Directory for a list of computers. This can be handy for scripting/auditing purposes. The below source will query each computer in the specified OU and then ...

WMI Query AD for a list of Computers in an OU (VB)

There are times when you need to programmatically query Active Directory for a list of computers. This can be handy for scripting/auditing purposes. The below source will query each computer in the specified OU and then ...

Office 365 Migrating users from on-premise using PowerShell

[Background] This PowerShell script will assist in automating the task of migrating On-Premise Exchange users to Office 365 when running in Hybrid deployment mode. The script will simply automate the manual tasks done wi...