01/06/2022

Deploying Registry Keys via GPO

When working as a System Administrator you will often need to deploy one or more Registry Keys in your environment. The easiest way of doing this is […]
05/18/2021

Writing an install.sh. Scaling a LAMP install.

Writing a LAMP install.sh, but why?. Nobody wants to manually configure a server. Not every time you need one. What if you need to scale to […]
03/18/2021

Containing Your Game Servers – Building Minecraft Servers Using Docker.

In this guide we walk you through Containing your game servers by building Minecraft servers using Docker. This assumes you know how to install Ubuntu and […]
03/08/2021

Randomly Generate a Passphrase Using PowerShell

The fun part for me is working with an array. In writing this I have added almost 1000 words to this. Now, I am not going to post the entire array for this project, however I will give you a great starting point and you can add as many as you like. To start I created a variable named $namelist. I know original. It looks like so:
03/02/2021

Create Desktop Shortcut using Group Policy

Create Desktop Shortcut using Group Policy (GPO). You can name this GPO whatever you like. Try to stick to meaningful GPO's. If this is a new domain, in 20 years will you be able to find the GPO? If it is a much older domain, if you name it generically will you be able to find it easily?
03/02/2021

Modify Group Policy Refresh Interval for Windows Computers

Specifically we are referring to the GP setting “Set Group Policy refresh interval for computers“. This policy setting specifies how often each computer on the domain updates/refresh the GP. Thus the computers are updated while the computer is on, and on the network. If a user is logged in they will not see the changes as this specific change happens in the background without their knowledge.