This is a second part of OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows. In this part I am generating private and public keys, which will be used to login into Windows OpenSSH server. When using key based authentication on OpenSSH, you don't need to provide a password to connect Windows Server over Ope…
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OpenSSH Server configuration for Windows
I had a requirement to test configuring OpenSSH server on Microsoft Windows and connect it through OpenSSH client. Using given below steps in this article we can setup OpenSSH server on Windows server and connect through Linux SSH client.
First go to Settings >> Apps & features >> Optional featu…
Get Nutanix virtual machine details using PowerShell
This article is demonstration on how to connect to Nutanix using PowerShell and fetch virtual machine inventory. This is the view of Nutanix prism central portal and on the dashboard I can see all the information related to Nutanix objects.
In this prism central I can see virtual machines. My…
Create PowerShell array of object in different way
When working with arrays and PSObject
in PowerShell, there are several efficient methods for creating and managing array elements. Below are examples that highlight both the creation of arrays and the addition of elements in different ways.
To create an empty array in PowerShell, you have two m…
Broadcom VMware PowerCLI based ESXi capacity planner html web portal
I had a requirement to provide a solution for monitoring ESXi servers' CPU, memory, and datastore usage to non-IT or developer users without giving them direct access to vCenter or ESXi servers. The solution needed to avoid using any additional applications or tools. Previously, I had set up a syste…
Deploying Azure ARM templates using Terraform
This article demonstrates how to deploy an Azure ARM template using Terraform. I encountered several scenarios where resources deployed through Terraform, Bicep, or the REST API didn't function as expected. However, when I deployed the same resources using an ARM template, they worked flawlessly.
…Azure resource group deployments with ARM JSON templates in Subscription with PowerShell
In this article, this example shows how to deploy resource group in Azure subscription. While deploying resource group with PowerShell you need to use New-AzSubscriptionDeployment cmdlet. Below is the output after deploying Resource Group in the subscription.
.\091-Complete_ARM_Template> # Crea…
Create CPU quota usage alerts for subscription using Azure ARM templates
This article is about Implementing of CPU Quota Usage Alert for Azure Subscription. As part of my recent assignment, I successfully created a CPU quota usage alert for an Azure subscription using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. The deployment enables real-time monitoring of CPU quota usage, …
Part 4.1 GitHub Actions deploy azure resources with PowerShell
After successfully configuring and setting up Azure and Terraform in GitHub Actions, I embarked on a Proof of Concept (POC) to automate PowerShell scripts (Azure az module) using GitHub Actions. I meticulously automated all the job steps using PowerShell, with a primary focus on utilizing credential…
Configure SNMP Service on HPE ILO Redfish Rest API using PowerShell
In our team, a colleague was tasked with configuring SNMP settings on multiple HPE ILO portals. To streamline this process and avoid manual labor, they sought my expertise in automation. I leveraged the HPE ILO Redfish REST API with PowerShell to automate the task, utilizing the comprehensive API do…
Reboot remote Linux server from PHP PowerShell web server for privileged users
This HTML tool enables users to restart Linux servers remotely from their web browser, providing a convenient and efficient way to manage server operations. Built using HTML, PHP, and PowerShell, this project is designed to be hosted on a Windows XAMPP server only.
For added security and author…
Generate GUID using PowerShell GUI tool
This PowerShell script provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for generating new GUIDs. Each time the "Generate" button is clicked, a new GUID is created using the [guid]::NewGuid() command. The interface is built using Windows Forms, offering a user-friendly way to quickly generate and view uniq…
PowerShell create resources on Azure using Rest API with user account
Using client id (Service Principal) and client secret to connect Azure Rest API is fairly easy and simple. As I have shown in my earlier articles. I am using another way of using your organization Username of Password to connect to azure Rest API instead of client id and client secret. You generate …
Azure Rest API connect with Powershell and create resources
I had a task to explore and deploy resources in Microsoft Azure using Rest API. Very good and detailed documentation is provided by Microsoft for Azure Rest API here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/.
In this example I will use PowerShell to automate Azure Rest API and cre…
Terraform Force-Unlock Command and Unlocking State file on Azure backend with PowerShell
While working on collaborative environment of Terraform deployments, you might encounter an error of acquiring the tf state locking issue. In Terraform word when backend is configured to store state file on remote. It limits multiple users from making changes to environment at the same time to avoid…
Create storage account and Service Principal using PowerShell for Terraform Azure Backend
While working on earlier article Configure Azure Storage Account Blob as Terraform backend to store tfstate file, I wanted to test terraform backend configuration with Azure Service Principal (App registrations) account. To configure initial resources on Azure for backend, I have automated all the …
Automate chrome browser with PowerShell using selenium
Working with deprecated Internet Explorer using PowerShell to automate it was very easy earlier. To automated clicks or auto type on Internet Explorer, I was just using native .net com objects, which was a very simple and comprehensive. But since Internet Explorer is deprecated, I switched to Google…
Adding parameters in Azure DevOps pipelines examples Part 1
This is an example of how to use parameters in Azure DevOps Pipeline YAML configurations. To start with this I have added first parameters: in the YAML file configuration. Under it I have multiple parameters, to create basic string parameter 3 properties are required name, displayName and type as …
PowerShell convert shared folder permissions SDDL to readable format
While working with shared folder permissions, I wanted to document access and permissions of folders in readable format in automation way with PowerShell, You can see the permissions with below command of a folder. Access and permissions are in SDDL format, not in user friendly format to read, it co…
Generate PowerShell Tree View HTML diagram of Active Directory group recursive memberships
Long back I wrote article on Powershell Active Directory: Show treeview of User or Group memberof hierarchy, where it was showing group Tree View on the PowerShell command console. In the hierarchy it was only showing Tree View of groups only. I improvised this script and included users as well. A…
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