Zen masters Fireman311 and Xiakit are here to teach you the zen way of IT
This post is about a recent vulnerability published by VMware, allowing hackers to run code on the virtual machines host system. The following PowerCLI functions will help you to set up the workaround faster. Official statement of VMware: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0026.html Description by VMware VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB... Continue Reading →
Does this seem familiar? You are sitting in a meeting and the discussion is heated. Your thoughts wander and suddenly you are directly addressed. That's exactly when you should have had a cat fact at hand to defuse the situation. We show you how to have a cat fact ready every time you need one.... Continue Reading →
This is a small example for handy use of PowerShell. In this post, I will show you how to clean up your clipboard from double entries by using PowerShell. We will also add it to the context menu for easy access. To clean up the clipboard we will use Get-Clipboard to fetch it and use... Continue Reading →
I often had the situation that a user has to restart a service he needs, and since I don't want to do that all the time, I found a pretty good solution to give him exactly those rights 😉 Enable the rights on the server site First, we need a Little tool, download the SubInAcl... Continue Reading →
This will show you how to install a managed service account on a domain joined computer to run a scheduled task. It will not explain how this technology works and will be limited to one computer (further information). There are managed service accounts and group managed service accounts. We will cover the managed service account... Continue Reading →
This is a template in order to send messages to your server to run commands or do checks on the server. I use it on a Ubuntu 18.04 server to trigger LXD backups (Sorry Linux Admins, I was too lazy to rewrite it in Python). Another Telegram "Bot" runs on my little home lab to... Continue Reading →
You all know how it feels to run out of space 😉 Well it is not very fun and also not very zen...But installing a heavily oversized monitoring solution for every little test server is also not the zen way. So why not create a little script, alerting you over Telegram telling you how much... Continue Reading →
This post is about a simple solution to monitor active directory group changes using PowerShell. Please note, this is not the best practice and will only give you insight about a new member or if a member was removed from a group. The best practice way to monitor group membership changes is to change the... Continue Reading →
Often when you have installed and configured a system you take a step back and look at the work you did. Everything runs well and looks great. But how do you know if something fails on your newly installed Veeam Backup & Replication server? In this article, I want to show you how to monitor... Continue Reading →
Sometimes your eyes need something to look at and relax while starting up PowerShell. Add the following code to the path in the $Profile variable and enjoy your Unicorn. Yes, this may be a rather useless thing to do. But remember you can add everything into your $Profile and load it whenever you start your... Continue Reading →
