January 11, 2020
In the event that you encounter the error in the title while running Veeam Endpoint Backup (Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows) it most likely means that your backups will cease to work, as mine have. The issue appears to be a flag set in the Veeam database which informs Veeam…
December 10, 2019
If you’ve ever managed a terminal server or RDS chances are there has been a need to identify the IP address of connected clients. Task manager gives us the client hostname but sometimes DNS can have stale entries or the client can be on the remote side of a VPN. We can use tools…
December 04, 2019
IP Geolocation is the mapping of an IP address to its geographical location, typically a country, state, or city. We can be confident that an IP block allocated by a regional internet registry (e.g, APNIC) to an Australian ISP will mean that IP range will be assigned to a service…
November 28, 2019
In this post we’re aiming to accomplish in PowerShell what the previous post did in Python, which is to create a pool of threads to carry out a set of given tasks concurrently. The closest equivalent to what we achieved in Python can be accomplished in PowerShell using Runspace…
October 17, 2019
One of the great things about Python is how easy it makes creating a pool of threads and assigning them tasks. A practical example would be if we’re looping through an array of 100,000 objects with each one containing a URL or IP address we need to hit, we wouldn’t want to…
October 07, 2019
Having previously written a few Amazon Echo Skills I knew AWS Lambda could run JavaScript and Python, but I recently found out it can also run PowerShell. Requirements PowerShell Core The first requirement is that only PowerShell Core 6 and later are supported. One advantage of…
October 02, 2019
I had a bit of spare time and wanted to mess around with Cisco’s NeXt UI Toolkit, a JavaScript library which, amongst other things, provides functionality for generating network topology diagrams. Once we download and extract the library from the Cisco site, we’ll have 4 folders…
October 02, 2019
What previously ran on Hugo is now running on GatsbyJS. For no other reason than that I’ve found myself increasingly using GatsbyJS for both work and personal projects, so it made sense to move this site to a platform I was using elsewhere. To provide some background on the file…