I think it’s safe to say; I’m a big fan of PowerShell. However, when checking Azure resources, it can be a lot quicker to use the portal/GUI–unless you’ve got the commands already cached in your shell. Also, there isn’t a great way to lookup a virtual machine’s subscription if you’re working in a different one. […]
More companies are adopting pronouns with digital identities. It’s not just social media platforms; C-Suite and staff are looking to add pronouns to their Outlook and even their Windows login. While it may be easy enough to do this for a few users, updating an entire organization with hundreds (or thousands) of people is incredibly […]
It’s easy to forget how crucial time synchronization is across a network/domain until it stops working. After you setup your Domain controller and pick a time zone, it should all just work–and it typically does. However, if you manage Windows Servers for long enough, this is probably going to be something you have to mess […]
I’ve been remiss with keeping up with my technical articles. I’ve devoted a lot of time to studying for the RHCSA, and last week, I passed on the first try. Feels amazing to achieve that goal; and no better way to celebrate a Linux achievement, than to write an article about Windows Server :-). Web […]
I’ve been working on the RHCSA, an Exchange migration and updating an Active Directory forest for the last few months, so I haven’t been writing as much as I’d like to. There’s quite a bit of new information I’ve picked up recently, but this was something I wanted to touch base on before (potentially) writing […]
A few months ago I started looking for a new job. I wasn’t excited to start over again, but I wanted more challenges and technologies to work on. I remember starting my first few technology jobs, and thinking how difficult it was to find documentation for the servers and networks–I was even left to figure […]
DNS is pretty crucial in a domain environment. If you pull up DNS on your domain controller(s), you can see a listing of, well, a lot of different stuff–PC names to start in DNS > Forward Lookup Zones > domain name. There’s also reverse lookup zones, possibly even mail server records and even more. DNS […]