If you’ve had to diagnose application issues where there may be a network fault (or the vendor is blaming the network 😡) you may have taken packet captures at both sides of the connection and then compared them. Sometimes this is relatively easy if you can trigger the traffic…

In Part 1 we deployed a simple Application Gateway configuration and discussed the various components that make up the service. In Part 2 we’re going to configure a more realistic deployment by implementing end to end encryption as well as path based routing and HTTP header…

I’ve recently spend some time with Azure Application Gateway and wanted to put my notes in a format that can benefit others. Part 1 will be an overview of Azure Application Gateway and walking through the process of creating very simple deployment using the Azure CLI. Part 2 will…

I wasn’t planning on writing a post on this but after spending far too long looking for a simple solution I figured it was worth sharing. Plus I haven’t blogged in a while so this is what you get 😀. The problem You’re connected to the remote console using Dell iDRAC, Lenovo…

There are a few ways to get the version of a Veeam Backup & Replication install, most of the online content points you towards querying the property of the file. And this works quite well if you just want to the version, but it doesn’t give you the full build which changes with…

If your journey into Azure is anything like mine you started off wanting to write some simple PowerShell automation or reporting, probably for Azure AD or Microsoft 365, and went searching for how to create service accounts. This led you to service principals, which then led you…

Quick and short post today - we’re going to be retrieving the current Cumulative Update (CU) level of Exchange servers. There are already a ton of articles covering this but they all have one problem, they extract the Exchange build number using PowerShell and then ask you to…

There are several ways to get a list of local administrators on a Windows system - be it a server or a client, but the accuracy of the data returned can vary based on the method and whether there is domain controller reachability (assuming the system in question is domain joined…