Active directory dynamic groups and role based access using PowerShell
Creating, updating and maintaining Active Directory group members can be a boring time intensive job. The following script creates new groups for all kind of unique job titles available in Active...
View ArticleHow to loop over a block or multiple tasks Ansible
One of the biggest shortcomings of the Ansible syntax is the ability to loop over a block with tasks in it. It is possible to loop over multiple arrays, nested objects etc. But looping over a set of...
View ArticleHow to get a free SSL certificate for your website?
There are multiple ways to get an SSL Certificate for your website. The most used one for non-technical people is buying one from the hosting provider where your website is running. Buying a...
View ArticleHow to download a GitHub artifact using PowerShell?
Last day I was struggling to download a GitHub artifact. Tried with invoke-webrequest, web session and even with curl. After reading the GitHub documentation, it seems to be possible with the GitHub...
View ArticleGIT schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: Unknown error...
During a git sync, I faced this error on a corporate network. This could have multiple reasons, the most common one is a network security setting is blocking the revocation list to prevent MITM...
View ArticleWindows Update error: 0x80244010 – The number of round trips to the server...
This error is mostly raised when a Windows client hasn’t been updated for a long time or when the software distribution store is cleaned and need to build up again. The default round trip value is...
View ArticleCustom credential types in Ansible Tower / AWX
Saving encrypted credentials is another cool feature in Ansible Tower / AWX. By default, there are a lot of custom credential types available, and a lot are added each release upgrade. With using...
View ArticleWindows set WSUS Registry Settings using PowerShell
After seeing a lot of unusual scripts on the internet, I decided to find out the wheel by myself. Tested this script against 900 different 2016/2019 servers with different configurations. The cool...
View ArticleWindows update stuck at 0% – Server 2019
Last day I was struggling with an issue that my Windows client was not downloading the Windows updates from WSUS. While debugging the issue, I saw in the windowsupdate.log that the wuclient tried to...
View ArticleCertificate not issued (Denied) Denied by Policy Module 0x80094800. The...
Last week, I was getting a Web server certificate in our PKI environment for our new WSUS deployment. When submitting my csr file with the web server template, I faced some dumb error which has cost...
View ArticleSCVMM Error 12711. The cluster resource could not be found (0x138F)
Sometimes SCVMM Cannot refresh a VM and returns this error code. Don’t know why this happens, maybe during a refresh while there is a back-up running. But like the most of the SCVMM Refresh issues...
View ArticleThe Basics of Kubernetes
In this blog post Ill tell you something about Kubernetes. What is Kubernetes? What are the Kubernetes concepts? The Kubernetes Components Architecture and the benefits of using Kubernetes. What is...
View ArticlePowerShell Scheduled task failed with error code: 0xFFFD0000 and 4294770688
After creating a new PowerShell task and copying some parameters from my “old” task i get this strange error code. How to Run PowerShell scripts from Task Scheduler: Create new task. Give it a name....
View ArticlePowerShellGetFormatVersion is not supported by the current version of...
To solve this error, start PowerShell as Administrator: #Run Install-PackageProvider Nuget –Force #And Install-Module –Name PowerShellGet –Force Then close that Window and open a new one. Problem...
View ArticleGit Cheat sheet – Collection of most used Git commands
In a DevOps way of working GIT is a powerful tool for each team member must know. GIT is used for sharing, versioning, tracking changes and most of all for making code together. If you know the git...
View ArticleHow to get your Windows Release Version and Build number?
It’s very simple to get your Windows Build number, like “Version 10.0.18363 Build 18363”. You need to seek a little bit longer to find your Windows Version number. In this short blog I will tell you...
View Articlefatal: Authentication failed git on Windows
If you change your password, or the git repository password is changed you can get the following error. In this situation you cannot make any changes or if it is a private repository even make a clone...
View ArticleAutomatic way of making a lot of folders
There are multiple reasons why you need a lot of pre-created folders. Making the folders by hand would be a very boring time intensive job. So make use of the available script languages in your...
View ArticleNew-VM Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source
The following error: “parameter name source cannot be null” is just an exception in the VMWare.VimAutomation.Core module. With this error its hard to find the actual issue. The version i’ve running: PS...
View ArticlePowerShell: Execution of scripts is disabled on this system.
This error occur when the default PowerShell execution policy is active on the system, the default policy is restricted on fresh Windows Installations. Windows Execution policy is a security mechanism...
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