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How to capture network …
Intro If you need to capture network traffic from a Windows server, you may find that that standards or controls in your organisation prevent or forbid you from installing tools such as Wireshark on your Windows servers. This may be enforced by AppLocker or other controls. However, if you do have …
Overcoming power supply …
Intro In my first post in my Raspberry Pi NAS series, I mentioned I had issues with my external hard drives and had to buy an external (powered) USB hub, but I didn’t elaborate further. What’s The Issue? Among the many changes from its predecessor, the Raspberry Pi 4 now uses USB-C as …
How to use your Raspberry …
Intro In my last post, I walked you through the basic setup and Operating System install of a Raspberry Pi. Now lets move onto making it a NAS/Media Centre device. I actually went down 2 different paths - initially I went with OpenMediaVault and reverted to a my previous setup when I encountered …
How to use your Raspberry …
Intro I recently replaced my Raspberry Pi 3B+ NAS/Media Centre with a Raspberry Pi 4B+ and it occurred to me that others may want to do likewise, so here goes. Why a Raspberry Pi? In truth theres a few reasons: When I first done this on my Raspberry Pi 3B, I was frustrated by limitations (lack of …
VS Code: Dialog PopUnder …
Image by James Wainscoat on Unsplash Intro I recently hit upon an annoying problem when using VS Code and wanted to share with you how I worked around it. The Problem I was trying to run some powershell commands against Azure Active Directory using the AzureAD Powershell module to query and …
Azure: Context is king
Image by mohammad takhsh on Unsplash Intro A quick post just to get me back into the routine, and to cover off an issue that I encountered recently, and how to resolve it. The problem I hadn’t done anything in Azure at home for a while and tonight I wanted to manage some VMs of mine from AZ …