These days Terraform is the infrastructure as a code standard (IaC). Terraform can be used with various platforms, while I am writing about Azure here. One can provision almost any resource in Azure by Terraform. Terraform is a great tool for a resource provisioning automation and a cornerstone for DevOps. HashiCorp develops …
Once I got a task to create Windows Server local users on 10 machines and give them Admin permissions. I’ve found that I’d rather automate and be effective. I prefer to spend 10 minutes writing a script and 10 minutes running it rather than spending 30 minutes for manual job. This small …
When I was implementing Azure Storage File Sync solution, I found that it worked pretty quick with the files to be uploaded from a server to the cloud storage. The reason for it is the agent installed on the server checks for file changes. Unfortunately, when a file needs to be downloaded …
Once I got a task that required PowerShell Az modules to be installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box. Azure PowerShell modules updates quite often and I wasn’t sure if that will work at all. I found that it requires at least PowerShell 5 and .NET 4 framework on MS Docs …
This article guides you with the options you have for savings with Azure. There are some for different size environments and goals.
It is a quite common situation. when you need to send an email from a PowerShell script that contains a status report or another kind of data. Nevertheless, before you can send a normal email you would like to run a quick test to confirm that you can send email from this …
I believe that every server, and a Domain Controller especially, should be tested after a restart or another kind of maintenance job. The task to test AD DC replication test using PowerShell needs to be executed on each DC in AD. My team asked me if there is a way to automate Active …
This could be helpful when you need to update existing CSV file and you don’t have Excel in hand. You can do it in Notepad for sure, but it is easier with PowerShell. If you are curious what else you can do with Excel spreadsheets in PowerShell – check out the ImportExcel …
