Top is a super-cool interactive tool. It displays real-time processes and resources. And you can interact with them. Linux guys always have the shiniest command prompts… pfff. Let’s try to fix that! TLDR… Right to some code! What do I want from Top on Windows? First, it should look the Read more…
Need to fit your PowerShell oneliner in a Twitter message? Oh, noes!!! Too many characters! Let’s shorten that oneliner with some useful tricks.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.