So you’d like to setup an Intranet SSL Certificate for pfSense, Let’s Encrypt & CloudFlare. You have pfSense running on your home network. You got all the great goodies to play with but every time you log in you get that screen come up that says your connection is not secure. This must not stand, I want all things to be secure! SSL all the things! Follow this little guide, and you too can have Let’s Encrypt create you an SSL certificate, automagically, for free-ish…, have it automatically validate via the DNS-01 challenge method and have SSL Certificate automagically renew.

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Here is my guide on how to Join Ubuntu Workstation to a Windows Domain using SSSD and Realmd. There are a few different methods out there on how to do this but from what I’ve tested and researched, using SSSD and Realmd is the most up to date and easiest way to achieve the desired result at the time of writing this. I’ve included links to all of the relevant documentation that I used in researching putting together this guide.

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Here is a short step by step guide for installing x11vnc server on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus. I prefer this to Vino that comes pre-installed because Vino doesn’t play well with Windows. If you are back and forth between Linux and Windows x11vnc server works really well. Disclaimer: I’m a Linux n00b. I’m enjoying playing with Linux but my background is in Windows. I’m putting this up for my own benefit so I can find it later and hopefully it may benefit someone else.

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After a little trial and error here is a brief instruction on how to install Nixnote2 Beta 7 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.� NixNote is not in software repositories for� Ubuntu. You can however download it from the� Sourceforge� page.� � This is a workaround until a patch is released. There is a bug filed for this already. I tried installing Nixnote 2 beta 7 on Ubuntu 16.04 using the Deb package and that didn’t seem to work.

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Anyone who has administered a little SCCM in their time, would be be familiar with the tool CMTrace or SMSTrace. CMTrace is a tool that comes with System Center Configuration Manager. It allows you to view the myriad of logs files that SCCM generates in a consistent and easy to read format. Being used to the log format that CMTrace generates, I thought it would be a great idea to use that format for logging Powershell script actions and errors.

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Connecting Word 2016 to a WordPress Blog is suprisingly easy. It allows you to create your blogpost in Word, insert your pictures etc and then press the publish button and your post will published with all of your images uploaded to your blog site. It’s a pretty handy feature if you prefer to use Word for blogging as opposed to something like Windows Live Writer or the updated open sourced version called Open Live Writer.

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Sometimes when you are checking an objects members you will come across the membertype ScriptProperty. I recently ran across this when I was troubleshooting some issues I was having with the Get-Hotfix cmdlet. When you pipe Get-Hotfix to Get-Member you can see that the property InstalledOn has the membertype ScriptProperty. I wanted to know what was actually going on in that definition but as you can see from the screen shot below it’s truncated.

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Since the release of Windows 10 I have spent some time playing with the Production Preview of Powershell v5.0. The new PackageManagement module is a great addition to this version of Powershell as it allows you to install software from the Chocolatey resource. Documentation and examples is a bit scarce at the moment but I found some cmdlets have some online help files. Here is what I’ve found so far: –

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I recently upgraded to SCCM 2012 R2 and also upgraded to MDT 2013 to take full advantage of its OS deployment goodies. Everything has been going well until I decided I’d like to deploy an OS to a 2nd Generation Hyper-V Virtual Machine. I started getting all sorts of different errors. It really started driving me insane. A lot of four letter words were used. For that I am sorry. Good news is, I got it working in the end.

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Copying a word document or HTML to a SharePoint Wiki that contains articles can be a long manual process in SharePoint 2010. I’ve tried many different techniques and looked at many different articles to try to achieve this. This is the only “free” work around I can find. I hope it helps you. This process outlines how to create a Personal SharePoint Blog and also how to then copy SharePoint Blog entries into the SharePoint Wiki.

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