Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution. Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like “DevOne” in English. Its stated first goal is to provide a distribution without the controversial systemd installed by default. The Debian 8 Jessie release has caused polarization amongst Debian developers and users, due to the… Read More
If you read our previous article PXE Boot Almost Any ISO Image, then you will note in that article we detailed the steps to boot Macrium Reflect 6.0 over PXE. While it was not discussed in that article, Macrium Reflect Rescue media is WinPE based. The important takeaway here is that you are not stuck… Read More
Over the past few years with the advent of low cost USB drives, CD Drives have basically become legacy devices. For that matter, most new computers don’t even have one. With that said, there are lots of tools we typically use that boot from CD and yes these tools can be made to boot from… Read More
Jenkins is an award-winning, cross-platform, continuous integration and continuous delivery application that increases your productivity. Use Jenkins to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. It also allows you to continuously deliver your… Read More
Every so often I have clients requesting that OpenVPN GUI automatically map networked drives once connected to their OpenVPN Server. Fortunately OpenVPN GUI has built in support for running batch scripts once Connected or Disconnected. Note this tutorial is for the Windows based OpenVPN GUI client only. So without further ado, here we go. The… Read More
If you are using the Spark IM Client in your enterprise and would like to manage updates with a software install GPO, then this article is for you. This process was created in lieu of building a custom branded Spark IM client. If you would like to build a custom client, please see Build a… Read More
If you would like to use the latest version of Subversion and prefer using the package manager like me, the following steps below will enable you to install Subversion 1.9 from the WanDisco repositories. At the time of writing, the latest version in the WanDisco repo is 1.9.2. It is important to note that the… Read More
If you read our previous article Easy Debian Server Firewall, then you may have noted that on Debian Jessie the described method no longer works. This is due to systemd. In the article below we will walk through creating a persistent IPTables based firewall on Debian Jessie. First we need to install some required software… Read More
This article will provide C# code that will allow you to leverage the Exchange Management Shell to add a Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013 User to a specified group. In order to use the code below, you must have the Exchange Management tools installed on the machine which will be running this code. Exchange Management Tools installation… Read More
SaltStack platform or Salt is a Python-based open source configuration management software and remote execution engine. Supporting the “infrastructure-as-code” approach to deployment and cloud management, it competes primarily with Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. SaltStack software orchestrates the build and ongoing management of any legacy or modern infrastructure. SaltStack is known as the fastest, most scalable… Read More