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I've been playing around with Azure DevOps Pipelines in my quest to become a better programmer. After spinning up an on-prem agent running on Server 2019, I kep

For the better part of the 2020 I've been using a defaults resource within my DSC modules as outlined in THIS post. This suddenly stopped working, failing with

If you're running a non-SYSTEM Hybrid Runbook worker and you replace your RunAs certificate, you may encounter a login failure with ClientCertificateCredential

I've been using Sophos' UTM since forever, but at work we're moving away from our legacy Cisco ASAs, and to FortiGate. So I'm making the switch at home with an

The lack of clarity in FortiGate's error messages and documentation continues to irk me. The syntax required for it to include multiple DNS names in the certifi

Fortinet's documentation is pretty terrible. This is especially true for their Hyper-V deployment instructions which leave out multiple steps, and left me frustrated trying to piece together instructions from multiple articles.

I've been learning a lot about how to use Azure Automation to manage DevOps deployments of our Windows Servers. This has led me to a dozen DSC modules, some wit

We're finally at the point where our infrastructure is cleaned up enough that getting usable signal through all the logspew is finally possible. After comparing

In September, 2019 I spent 10 days aboard the MV Ambai, traveling through Raja Ampat and the Banda sea. It was incredible to behold the breadth of wildlife, and the sprawl of plastic waste.