One cloud consultants building journey
One cloud consultants building journey
The Challenge A client will be decomissioning a Windows print server but will keep the printers and have Windows clients print directly to print devices. How can we automate the setup of the new printer ports and printers?…and as a bonus we’ll get a simple way to mitigate your environment from Printnightmare. The key there […]
I had been using credential files in my terraform projects. Recently I switch to use AWS SSO and providing the profile name in the code. At runtime (plan, apply, etc.) terraform will use the token from the given profile. If AWS returns expired, the command will stop with authentication errors. Simply authenticate by cli via […]
I discovered a handy trick to get the account id of the given profile/account. The key is to use a new data source object and pass it the provider. See the code below. So no need to ever put account ids in terraform code again? I’m good with that. Happy building, D
My latest project is a bit of a return to my old life with Microsoft. The majority of my AWS work has been with Linux workloads, so it’s been nice to brush off my old skills and return to PowerShell 😃. After manually joining a couple of instances to a self-managed AD (not an AWS […]
My current project is a datacenter migration where we’re moving Windows workloads up to AWS. One item we had been struggling with was with two large file share servers. The shares are multiple terabytes in size with lots of small files/docs and subfolders. The challenge we had been dealing with the performance of DataSync with […]
For most of my IT career I’ve been in the Microsoft space. And much of my first “cloud” work was with Azure…but I was also doing some AWS. Then my mentor told me I had to make a choice. I like to say that I was given the choice between the orange pill or the […]
I’ve thought about the blog for a long long time. Thanks Todd Rundgren 😉 A lot has happen sense my last post, lots of different projects, I’ve moved to more AWS work and I’ve changed jobs….not to mention the pandemic, Atlanta Braves and UGA championships. All that being said, there are quite a few things […]
Hello again (yes it’s been awhile sense my last post). Working on a script for work I came across an interesting behavior of WinRM. When I attempt to connect to a domain controller of a non-trusted domain and I use a samAccountname [domain\username] I get the following (and typical) error: The $sam cred looks like: […]
It’s been awhile sense I’ve setup an Azure VPN for a customer and I had to relearn the process – particularly with ARM. Â So I thought I’d share some tips on getting this setup without any hassles. Be sure to check the endpoint Azure will connect to is on the supported list. Make sure you […]
After reading that Azure can support Application Proxy, I began to think of ways I could use this to expand the configuration of my lab. My lab is hosted in my closet and brought to the Internet via AT&T fiber. So I only have a single IP which limits what I can do/publish externally. So […]