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COPY ALL FILES IN S3 BUCKET TO LOCAL WITH AWS CLI

The AWS CLI makes working with files in S3 very easy. However, the file globbing available on most Unix/Linux systems is not quite as easy to use with the AWS CLI. S3 doesn’t have folders, but it does use the...

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AWS Cloud

USING UNIX WILDCARDS WITH AWS S3 (AWS CLI)

Currently AWS CLI doesn’t provide support for UNIX wildcards in a command’s “path” argument. However, it is quite easy to replicate this functionality using the --exclude and ...

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AWS Cloud

AWS CloudWatch – Reporting on RAM, Disk Usage & More

Amazon Web Services reports some good metrics on the console by default, like CPU, but it’s missing some key metrics like memory usage or disk space; these are important to monitor to ensure instance uptime...

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Linux Ubuntu

How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS provides you the ability to add a user for anyone who plans on accessing your server. Creating a user is a basic setup but an important and critical one for your server security. In this...

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Microsoft Office365 Security

Configure Office365 for DLP

To configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP), perform the following steps: 1. Login as tenant admin to the Office 365 Admin center from or by clicking Admin from the App Launcher 2. Click on the Security &...

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Microsoft Office365 Powershell

Set a Room Mailbox to Show Details of a Meeting in its Calendar – Office 365

You may notice that meetings with a ‘Room’ mailbox will by default only show a “Busy” status. Many, including the organisation I work for, wish to have (at the very minimum) the following displayed in the Room’s...

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Microsoft Windows Server WSUS

Fix WSUS Console Crash

I recently deployed a new WSUS server on Windows Server 2016 but the console would crash, the WSUS engine had crashed and it turns out the problem is it runs out of memory. Make sure your WSUS server had at least 8GB of...

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Microsoft Windows Server

Use the Command Prompt to Clean Up the SxS Folder

If you want a more thorough view of how much space the SxS folder is taking up and the option to clean up unneeded files, use the Command Prompt.

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Virtualization VMWare

Configure Time Synchronization Between Guest and Host Operating Systems

When you turn on periodic time synchronization, VMware Tools sets the time of the guest operating system to be the same as the time of the host. After time synchronization occurs, VMware Tools checks once every minute...

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File System Microsoft

Windows 7/8/10 – How to change a files ‘Created’ and ‘Modified’ dates

If you need to change the ‘Created’ or ‘Modified’ dates on a file you have two options: Change the date and time on your computer, then save the fileUse a third-party utility. Using option two, my favourite utility is...

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Microsoft Windows Server

Windows account lockout error code (Netlogon, EventID, Kerberos)

Here some tables with authentication error code for quick understand what’s happpen NETLOGON LOG ERROR CODEDESCRIPTION0x0Successful login0xC0000064The specified user does not exist0xC000006AThe value provided as the...

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Microsoft Windows Server

Windows Server management – Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands

Active Directory ItemCommandActive Directory Rights Management ServicesAdRmsAdmin.mscADSI Editadsiedit.mscActive Directory Certificate Servicescertsrv.mscDFS Managementdfsmgmt.mscDHCP Consoledhcpmgmt.mscDisk...

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Linux Ubuntu

Mount Windows Shares For Everyone On Ubuntu

This post is going to show you how to automatically mount the Windows shared folder on Ubuntu machines for everyone to access. No passwords needed and everyone body will be able to create, modify and delete files and...

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CentOS Linux

Network configuration using a text user interface (nmtui) (CentOS 7.x)

The NetworkManager text user interface (TUI) tool, nmtui, provides a text interface to configure networking by controlling NetworkManager. The tool is contained in the NetworkManager...

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File System Microsoft SQL Server

Get the allocation unit size of an NTFS partition in Server 2012

If you’re a SQL Server Pro you will know that the volumes the SQL log and datafiles are stored on should be formatted with a 64K cluster size. This is a SQL Server Best practice as stated...

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AWS Cloud

Integrate Azure AD with Multiple AWS Accounts

To configure the integration of AWS into Azure AD, you will need to add the AWS application from application gallery on Azure to your list of manage SaaS applications.

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File System Microsoft

Full Control v Modify – Why you should be using modify in most cases

Full control is a set of permissions that I see granted quite a bit, perhaps more frequently than it needs to be. For example, I see quite a large number of customers with the full control NTFS permission for each...

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COPY ALL FILES IN S3 BUCKET TO LOCAL WITH AWS CLI

USING UNIX WILDCARDS WITH AWS S3 (AWS CLI)

AWS CloudWatch – Reporting on RAM, Disk Usage & More

How to Add a User and Grant Root Privileges on Ubuntu 16.04

Configure Office365 for DLP

Set a Room Mailbox to Show Details of a Meeting in its Calendar – Office 365

Fix WSUS Console Crash

Use the Command Prompt to Clean Up the SxS Folder

Configure Time Synchronization Between Guest and Host Operating Systems

Windows 7/8/10 – How to change a files ‘Created’ and ‘Modified’ dates

Windows account lockout error code (Netlogon, EventID, Kerberos)

Windows Server management – Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands

Mount Windows Shares For Everyone On Ubuntu

Network configuration using a text user interface (nmtui) (CentOS 7.x)

Get the allocation unit size of an NTFS partition in Server 2012

Integrate Azure AD with Multiple AWS Accounts

Full Control v Modify – Why you should be using modify in most cases

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