List All Personal Access Tokens (PATs) expiration dates in Azure DevOps for all users.IntroductionMar 24Mar 24
Getting a list of installed applications on a Windows core serverIn this blog I will review a few options using PowerShell, to get a list of all installed applications on a windows server core in a…Dec 11, 2024Dec 11, 2024
Passing variables in Azure Pipelines YAML tasks, jobs and stages.recently I found it very useful to get a variable in one task, job or even a stage, and pass them on to the next step in the Yaml file in…Aug 22, 2024Aug 22, 2024
Changing the default browser in Windows 11 using a PowerShell script.Changing the default browser in Windows 10 and Windows 11 isn’t simple like changing the registry values, since from Windows 10 they are…Dec 19, 20233Dec 19, 20233
Dropdown Input choice workflows in GitHub ActionsSometimes, it's easier to select an existing option from a dropdown box, when running an automation process rather than filling up the…Jul 25, 2023Jul 25, 2023
Remark multiple lines in a Yaml, Terraform, a Json files or PowerShell.Often, I and many other decoders, get into a situation where you want to test only part of your code, or you need to make a temporary…Jun 18, 2023Jun 18, 2023
How to configure and use a Yaml reference file in Azure DevOps.In this blog I will describe and demonstrate, how to use a Yaml reference file in Azure DevOps. Using a Yaml reference file, makes the…Jun 8, 2023Jun 8, 2023
Preventing and recovering from MailStorm within Exchange serversIn this blog I will describe what are the signs and what must be done to deal with a MailStorm situation in which there is a “rampant” of…Jan 27, 2023Jan 27, 2023
Coping folder from Azure DevOps to an Azure Storage using a Yaml pipelineIn this blog I will review a short script which allows you to copy folder from the Azure DevOps repository (Repos) to a storage account’s…Sep 22, 2022Sep 22, 2022
Azure DevOps error: The current operating system is not capable of running this task.During one of my Azure DevOps projects, running YAML pipelines, I ran into an issue that appears to be quite common, but not so well…Aug 15, 2022Aug 15, 2022
Checking Azure provider’s apiVersions in Json files with Azure latest versionsEvery provider or resource type in Azure has one or more apiVersions, which must be specified in the json file. It might happen that the…Aug 11, 2022Aug 11, 2022
PublicAccessNotPermitted error during Azure image builder processIn this blog I would like to share a small but very annoying error I ran into, during my Image builder process with Azure pipelines.Apr 24, 2022Apr 24, 2022
Managing Azure Firewall reportingAzure firewall is commonly used in many Azure deployments all over. One of the great Azure capabilities are the logging options for almost…Apr 14, 2022Apr 14, 2022
Azure VMs Snapshot UtilitySnapshotting Azure VMs is not the most convenient and simple thing. Therefore, I have created a small PowerShell utility which make life…Mar 7, 2022Mar 7, 2022
Adding Date & Time to PowerShell's ConsoleThink about the amount of times you ran a PowerShell command or a script, but you didn’t remember the time it was initiated. Sometimes the…Feb 4, 2022Feb 4, 2022
Exchange 2013–2019 Maintenance & HealthCheck script (Vijaya Reddy’s Edited)It was really hard to get a good Exchange 2019 maintenance script. Therefore, instead of inventing the wheel, I have made minor changes to…Dec 26, 2021Dec 26, 2021
Exchange Client Access (CAS) connectivity testing script.In this blog, I will review a script that I wrote to test the different Exchange Client Access (CAS) components. Since the Exchange Client…Aug 24, 2021Aug 24, 2021
Managing mailbox access permissions using a GUI UtilityIn this blog, I will review a simple GUI utility based on PowerShell, which simplifies the way to add, check and remove Send As / Send On…Apr 8, 20213Apr 8, 20213
Managing Exchange / EXO Roles and permissions with RBAC ManagerIn this blog, I will explain how to use RBAC Manager utility to manage, create and assign the right permissions and roles within Exchange…Feb 5, 20211Feb 5, 20211
RDP Azure VMs using a GUI UtilityIn this blog, I will review a simple GUI utility based on PowerShell, which Automatically connects an Azure VM via the public IP, even if…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
