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
Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for… Read More
In order to install VMware Tools On vCSA (Virtual Center Server Appliance) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server you will be employing a two step process. First you will need to right click on the Virtual Machine in vSphere and choose “guest” > “Install/Upgrade VMware Tools” pictured left. Next you will need to run the following… Read More
Geary is a simple and lightweight email client that supports email threading (some call it conversation mode). It is still in the early development stage, but it does show plenty of potential to become a great email client. Being a simple and lightweight app, Geary has trimmed most, if not all, of the fat found… Read More