In this article, we will explore how to configure Ansible to manage Windows servers using OpenSSH. This approach is particularly useful when WinRM is blocked or not feasible due to organizational policies. Prerequisites
OpenSSH server installed and configured on the Windows machine
This is a second part of OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows. In this part I am generating private and public keys, which will be used to login into Windows OpenSSH server. When using key based authentication on OpenSSH, you don't need to provide a password to connect Windows Server over Ope…
I had a requirement to test configuring OpenSSH server on Microsoft Windows and connect it through OpenSSH client. Using given below steps in this article we can setup OpenSSH server on Windows server and connect through Linux SSH client.
First go to Settings >> Apps & features >> Optional featu…
In this article I posting terraform configuration script to deploy and configure complete function app with private endpoint and related resources in Microsoft Azure. This is complete configuration script for function app with private endpoint. With this configuration code it creates all below l…
Using client id (Service Principal) and client secret to connect Azure Rest API is fairly easy and simple. As I have shown in my earlier articles. I am using another way of using your organization Username of Password to connect to azure Rest API instead of client id and client secret. You generate …
I had a task to explore and deploy resources in Microsoft Azure using Rest API. Very good and detailed documentation is provided by Microsoft for Azure Rest API here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/.
In this example I will use PowerShell to automate Azure Rest API and cre…
While creating a new resource Service Plan Web APP with Container, while choosing option Image Source from Azure Container Registry (ACR) and selecting docker image I was receiving error Cannot perform credential operations for /subscriptions/9e22xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/vc…
While configuring new Azure DevOps pipelines in the project I found classic editor is not visible in Pipelines section also few options under Pipelines were not visible such as releases and task groups. There is s a option to enable classic editor in Project Settings. To make changes navigate to P…
In this HashiCorp Terraform configuration example article, I am using if condition to filter list of variable objects. Here in this configuration I am have multiple list of resource group, Their name and location are different in the variable objects as mentioned below.
In my previous articles I was testing my variable information to see output, one thing I observed in the output was showing all the variable content information in the output.
This is a one liner PowerShell script to change multiple files names in bulk. In this below given example I had multiple png images. I will take one file name Button_Icon_Black.png as an example. I wanted to just keep the name of the file with the Black.png (color name). Using below command you can…
This will be multipart article series on DevOps. In this part I am going to configure SCM git (Source control) and push my code to centralized repository on Github.com. For this first I need a system where I will complete all my DevOps Labs configuration and use it as a workstation. I will create a …
HashiCorp Packer.exe is an open source tool for building identical Virtual machine golden images for various platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly efficient, creating Master/Base machine images for several platforms i…
I wrote this article as a first part of a Configuring and creating VMWare virtual machine template using HashiCorp Packer.exe. While automating and installing unattended Microsoft Windows VM template on VMWare vCenter Server using packer I was facing few challenges such as it was getting stuck and f…
This script helps to get last installed patches, updates with dates, Server/System Last boot Uptime and C drive disk space information. This script was asked by one of the my SCCM team to troubleshoot in case if patches/updates installation are failing.
I was working with one of my client on a automation solution with PowerShell for Exchange Online. I wanted to write a PowerShell script to add secondary alias email addresses to Distribution Groups in Exchange online Office 365.
Base of the script is Set-DistributionGroup cmdlet which does all …
After upgrading Ansible Azure plugin module, while running my old ansible scripts against Azure resources to change or get information I was receiving error of TypeError: deprecated() got an unexpected keyword argument. (My credentials are stored in the file location of vim ~/.azure/credentials)
This script helps to find files and folders on Azure Storage Accounts blobs and containers.
There are two PowerShell variables I have mentioned, First Variable is $searchFile use file extension or names you want to search. Report are generated in file path mentioned under variable $exportCsv.