Find Patch Tuesday with PowerShell
Patching Windows computers is essential, but the inconsistent date of “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of the month, can make scheduling automation difficult. The
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Two Azure IP Addresses You Need to Know About
This video goes over two Azure IP addresses used for Azure VM’s. The WireServer IP of 168.63.129.16 and the Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
How to use Postman and PowerShell to Query API Data
In this video, I demonstrate how to use Postman, a free API development and testing tool, to format URL’s and make requests against web
Git and VS Code for the Lone Scripter
This is where my last two articles, Git for System Admin Scripting and Get Started with Git Remote, come together. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code
Get Started with Git Remote
In my last post, I eulogized the virtues of using Git for the simplest of scripts. You can find that here. In this post,
Git for System Admin Scripting
I spent most of my time in IT as a system admin, on the “Ops” side of DevOps. Over the years, I have accumulated
JSON and ARM Templates
ARM Templates are written with JSON and are at the core of Azure Resource Manager deployments. I have used and developed templates for months.
Authentication and Azure Automation Runbooks
Recently I ran into an issue with Authentication and Azure Automation child runbooks. The goal was to call a PowerShell child runbook following the
