Scale Computing actually has a fairly undocumented foreign VM Import method that seems to work reasonably well if you know what to do! What follows is the instructions provided by scale computing + a few extra steps provided by me to get everything working. The following steps will work for Windows 10 / Server 2016 […]
If you are already using AWS CloudWatch for monitoring CPU, Disk & Memory usage of your AWS EC2 instances, I’m sure you agree with me that it’s a great monitoring platform (and pretty cheap). But if you aren’t using any custom metrics you aren’t getting the most out of it. With a little bit of […]
WARNING: You should only consider this process if you have an instance with an old and no longer in use AWS Marketplace code that is stopping you upgrading to a new instance type. If you do this on an instance that is still using a marketplace license this will stop working. So recently I came […]
Just a quick post to share a script I just had to write to split an NSJSON file out into individual JSON files for processing through a 3rd Party Application. $content = Get-Content “path to NDJSON file goes here” foreach ($data in $content){ $random = -join ((65..90) + (97..122) | Get-Random -Count 25 | % […]
An MSP recently contacted me asking for a way to audit all Office 365 Licenses in use by users that have been blocked and then give them the option to remove them, this is right up my street so I immediately started work on a PowerShell script to complete this for them. This is what I […]
Here’s a quick PowerShell script that allows auto-reconnect of Windows VPN connections without having to use VPN Re-dial / Re-connect. You could also use this script to automatically connect the VPN at logon or to stop users disconnecting the VPN manually to bypass company controls. $vpnName = “<VPN Name>”; $vpn = Get-VpnConnection -Name $vpnName; […]
Did you know you can easily and cheaply encrypt emails directly from Office 365, did you also know I’ve just written an Outlook plugin that give users an encrypt email button that with a very small amount of admin configuration will allow users to easily select which emails they want to send as encrypted and […]
Just a quick post on how to fix this, I’ve seen numerous people facing this issue on the latest version of SQL Server Data tools and was having it myself. I assume there is some problem with the installer rather than actually with the SSDT, to get it installed you need to install SSDT from […]
I’ve been pulling my hair out for about a week on this one so now that I’ve sorted it I feel the need to write this up in case anyone has the same issue in the future. I know it’s not that common to logon to Ubuntu AWS Instances by using password authentication instead of […]
I want to start this article by saying I wouldn’t recommend doing this if you are looking to run any kind of database style application with files stored in the bucket, this solution will work for any kind of flat storage system you are using. At the end of the day if you are looking […]