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October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Kubernetes: Cert-Manager Certificate Request YAML Example

# Set variables certPrefix=kimconnect domainName=kimconnect.com domainName2=www.kimconnect.com serviceName=kimconnectblog-wordpress servicePort=8080 # Create a yaml file and create…
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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Obtain List of Hyper-V Hosts via Active Directory

# listHyperVHostsInForests.ps1 # Version: 0.03 function listHyperVHostsInForests{ # Ensure that AD management module is available…
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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

T-SQL: How To Rename Database in Microsoft SQL Server

The T-SQL USE master; GO ALTER DATABASE TEST_MSCRM SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE; GO ALTER…
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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: How To Use Dig

Checking Name Server(s) kim@kim-linux:~$ dig @8.8.8.8 microsoft.com ; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 microsoft.com ;…
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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Cramp For a Test

From my experience, the trick to memorizing 10,000+ questions and answers at the 90% accuracy…
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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Bash Shell: Rename Files – Prepend and Append

Pre-pending # Prepend any file that doesn't have the word "/thumbs_" in its full path…
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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Add User To Group in Active Directory

$userId='kimconnect' $groupName='Remote Desktop Users' function addUserToGroup($userId,$groupName){ $userExists=Get-ADGroupMember $groupName|?{$_.SamAccountName -eq $userId} if(!$userExists){ Add-ADGroupMember -Identity $groupName -Members…
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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Domain Name Records Overview: A-record, MX, DKIM, SPF, SRV

A RECORD (A-host): - What: address record (A-record) specifies the IP address(es) of a given…
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October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Installing Simple NFS GUI (for Ubuntu / Mint / Debian)

Overview: Simple NFS GUI is a Linux application that automates the whole NFS share configuration…
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October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: Performing Speed Test via Command Line Interface (CLI)

Install Speed-Test (if not already installed): kimconnect@linux-client:~$ sudo apt install speedtest-cli Reading package lists... Done…
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October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Improve WordPress Website Rendering Speed

These are the recommended plug-ins to enable caching, database cleaning, image compressing, and minify codes…
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October 23, 2021October 23, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Bash: How To Join Array With Comma Delimiter

# The following function joins an array of numbers # Limitation: the delimiter is expected…
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October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Reset Active Directory User Password

# User input variables $adminUsername='intranet\kim-a' $adminPassword='SOMECOMPLEXPASSWORD' $userId='kim' $newPassword='SOMECOMPLEXPASSWORD' $domainController='intranet.kimconnect.com' # Auto-gen Variables $encryptedPassword=ConvertTo-SecureString $adminPassword -AsPlainText…
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October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Notify Each User Before Password Expires

# This script email users basing on their password expiration dates # User input variables…
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October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Check Windows Scheduled Tasks To Correlate Object Creation Time of a Zip File

$file='c:\temp\backup.zip' $computername='SERVER008' $minutesVariance=15 checkScheduledTaskMatchingFile $file $computername $minutesVariance function checkScheduledTaskMatchingFile{ param( $file='c:\temp\PROD.zip', $computername=$env:computername, $minutesVariance=15 ) if($computername…
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October 19, 2021October 19, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Puppet Client Server Lab Setup

Server # Setup client machine name sudo vim /etc/hosts ## Insert this line ## xx.xx.xx.xx…
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October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Install Selenium for Python on Windows or Linux

Windows # This error would occur if pip is not up to date PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>…
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October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Run Python Interactive Command Line Mode (CLI)

Windows PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> python Python 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:37:50) [MSC v.1916 64 bit…
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October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Fix History Disabled in Task Scheduler

Issue: When checking certain tasks, one may find that the 'History' tab is appended with…
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October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

The 5 Rules of Thumb of Business Presentation (To Attract Investors)

I'm noting this here so that I can revisit these bullet points in the future...…
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