Powershell
Shorten your PowerShell one-liner
Need to fit your PowerShell oneliner in a Twitter message? Oh, noes!!! Too many characters! Let’s shorten that oneliner with some useful tricks.
Hardware
Add a graphical battery level indicator to your PowerShell prompt
Laptops are cool for some scripting on the go. But sometimes you need to check on your juices. You don’t want to end your PowerShell session mid-command! Enter the commandline battery indicator.
Hardware
How to check if your rebooting device is back online using PowerShell
Rebooting a switch is easy. Having patience enough to not frantically click the F5 button to check if the webinterface is back online is next to impossible. Here’s a quick PowerShell snippet with a solution!
Azure
Structure of an ARM template – ARM template series
Second article in a series on how to use Azure Resource Manager templates. This time a deeper dive in the JSON structure of ARM templates.
Azure
How to use Azure RM templates series – Introduction
This time we’re going to start an Azure RM template series. Got the hang of deploying Azure resources the manual way? Let’s auto-deploy that stuff!
Azure
Benefits of Azure managed disks and how to create and attach one
File storage in Azure can be quite daunting. Blobs, files, queues,… what do I really need? And what about managing those storage accounts with their nice, ahem…, naming convention?
Azure
How to manage Azure virtual machines with Just in time access
Network Security Groups (NSG) are great for securing devices and networks in Azure. But a strict policy can hinder fluent management of your resources. Just in time access provides a reasonable compromise.
Powershell
Brute force PowerShell in search of unknown aliases
As humans, we normally have 10 fingers. Keeping these fingers in control is not an easy feat. That is why we invent things like aliases.
An alias shortens long functions or commands to just a few characters.
Powershell
Toggle boolean in PowerShell without using $true and $false
Switch on, switch off. Enabled, disabled. Up, Down. All possible wordings for $true and $false in PowerShell. Unfortunately, there is no simple way to toggle between 2 variables when not using these boolean values.
Azure Active Directory
4 ways to assign local administrator rights to Azure AD joined devices
For a while, it is possible to log on to Windows with your Office 365 account. This enables a nice amount of flexibility. Especially when using different devices in your company. Sometimes you need local administrator rights, however. Here are 4 ways to assign local administrator rights to Azure AD joined devices.