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Fixing up a Sun Ultra 1

Fixing up a Sun Ultra 1

My experience repairing and setting up a Sun Ultra 1 from 1995.

pfSense CE has broken package manager on Azure

How to fix a broken package manager on pfSense CE running in Azure

The Story of pfSense, VLANs, and the one-armed router

My adventures with pfSense, MTU sizes, and the RealTek 8168 network adapter.

Bitnami images don't upgrade

Learn about my (mis-)adventures running this blog on a Bitnami image.

PowerShell - Lesson 2

The second blog post in my intro PowerShell series covers the PowerShell pipeline, some basic design patterns for using it, and a few interesting features and switches of Where-Object and Select-Object.

PowerShell - Lesson 1

Intro lession to PowerShell covering variables and cmdlets

Changing from Forms-based to Integrated Auth in Exchange

When changing your OWA/ECP directories from Forms-based Authentication (FBA) to Integrated Authentication in Exchange, you may start getting a blank page after the authentication redirect. If this happens, make sure you enabled another Authentication provider on the sites (Windows Integrated or Basic if using SSL). Set-OwaVirtualDirectory "owa (Default

MIM Provisioning Hierarchy

Have you ever wondered about the Provisioning Hierarchy screen in the MIM Management Agent configuration? Most of the examples out there ignore it and focus on other screens and features. I stumbled across the answer when provisioning some Novell groups into AD. This screen allows you to build OUs (or

Updating Office 365 services with PowerShell

This is pretty simple but it escaped me for quite some time. So, I'm posting it here in case I forget or it helps anyone else. When you are updating a user license in Office 365 via PowerShell, you can do it by calling Set-MsolUserLicense. If you are

MIM/FIM Oracle MA configuration

I worked out the below with the help of Google and I don't want to forget it. First, you must install the Oracle client for your version of Oracle. When configuring the Oracle MA in MIM/FIM, you must specify the connection parameters as below: Data source is

Office 365 batch user deletes

The Problem You need to remove all (or many) synchronized users from an Office 365 tenant. Maybe there was a mistake in scoping or you need to remove a domain that is associated with many User Principle Names (UPN). The "Solution" This can be done by a PowerShell