The Blog Post Was Ready. WordPress Wouldn’t Show It.
We finished a story about a disabled Windows button. Then WordPress blocked the article. How browser console clues, two CSP directives, and a corrected first diagnosis got the editor working.
Updates Ready, Install Button Disabled: An AI Agent Investigates
Windows said the updates were ready. The install button disagreed. A story of policy archaeology, restrained troubleshooting, and one approved registry change.
Setting SQL Server certificate using Ansible
this us usually implemented as Ansible role ansible-role-win-sql-certificate ├── defaults │ └── main.yml ├── handlers │ └── main.yml ├── tasks │ ├── get-first-certificate-thumbprint-issued-by.yml │ ├── get-first-certificate-thumbprint.yml │ └── main.yml . . . . .
Single Sign-On for web apps using Authelia
Authelia is an open-source authentication and authorization server and portal fulfilling the identity and access management (IAM) role of information security in providing multi-factor authentication and single sign-on (SSO) for your applications via a web portal. It acts a a…
Microsoft Teams AV Media Optimization for native onprem Remote Desktop environment
Validated on: Windows Server 2019 RDS and Windows Server 2022 RDS There are a lot of blog post out on the internet talking about Microsoft Teams AV Media Optimization. Especially for Azure Virtual Desktop, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop and…
How to create a .devcontainer for vscode to run ansible, terraform, packer and azure cli in Windows
When creating CI/CD pipelines for deploying IT infrastructures in onprem or in the cloud the preferred tools are: Ansible Packer Terraform Terraform is usually used for creating virtualized resources (compute, networks, storage,…). Packer is usually used for creating Windows and…
How to prepare the azure storage account and a storage container
The purpose of the azure storage account can be to centrally store files. It can act as bucket, act as a file share, host VHD files for VMs or lots of other use cases. Your can create a azure storage…
How to prepare a SSH Private Key in PEM format with empty password
usually you need a SSH key with an empty password for automation szenarios. Use the following commands to generate a private key. If your are prompted to enter a password, simply hit enter key on our keyboard to use an empty…
How to prepare a azure service principal
you can create an azure service principal for example using Azure CLI or using App registrations in AzureAD.We only cover creating it with Azure CLI. Create service principal using Azure CLI Login into Azure Create service principal. Feel free to adjust the name.…