Starting with Vagrant and VirtualBox: A Basic Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server

As a part of my #vDM30in30 post series, I’ve got some lab work that we will be doing together. This is the start which will be the foundation for the next set of posts that work with Vagrant and VirtualBox. We are about to go on an adventure together! Using Vagrant is becoming a standard … Read more

Stateful Scripting – A quick video primer for those new to scripting and orchestration

While I do a lot of scripting and orchestration in my day-to-day activity, I sometimes find that those around me may not have had the same exposure. In order to bring some of my team up to speed on the high level principal of orchestration I gave a lightning talk at the office to talk … Read more

Is this thing on? Using the PowerShell Test-Connection CmdLet

As a lover of all things PowerShell, I’m constantly doing queries and tasks against large pools of computer objects from my Active Directory network. One of the continuing challenges I run into is machines which are registered computer objects domain, but not online. It’s not a problem that they aren’t online in general, but the … Read more

Automation, Orchestration and Increasing the value of Human Capital

Automation and orchestration is a particularly hot topic these days, and with good reason. We are reaching a sort of critical mass in the expansion of software and infrastructure development. There are buzzwords flying about with the wide acceptance as Software Defined <insert technology here> because there is a fundamental shift in how we are … Read more

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