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Join Linux Servers to Active Directory

Join Linux Servers to Active Directory

If you are a sysadmin managing both Linux and Windows servers, you might have wondered how to join your Linux machines to Active Directory (AD) and enjoy the benefits of a single sign-on and centralized authentication. Well, wonder no more, because, in this, I will show you how to use

Use PowerShell Script for Inventorying Computers on a Domain.

Use PowerShell Script for Inventorying Computers on a Domain.

This PowerShell script is a useful tool for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) looking to inventory their computer hardware and monitor information without any hardware asset management tool such as PDQ deploy, ManageEngine EndPoint Central (previously Desktop Central) or SCCM. It utilizes the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) technology to remotely

AWX Password Reset / Unable to log in

AWX Password Reset / Unable to log in

While deploying AWX for managing Ansible on top of docker-ce I faced a strange issue. Even though deployment completed successfully I was unable to log in. While troubleshooting, I found that my deployment has not created the admin user I defined for some kind of reason. So I created it

Installing and Configuring Rundeck

Installing and Configuring Rundeck

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated… Rundeck is open-source software that helps you automate and schedule routine operational procedures in your environment may that be On-Premisses or Cloud-based. Some Rundeck features * Scheduled or On-demand (Web GUI, CLI or API WebHooks) job execution

Vmware Automation - PowerCli unable to Retrieve Tags

Vmware Automation - PowerCli unable to Retrieve Tags

Well, I’ve had an idea for a simple automation to restart some servers in a VMWare environment in my mind for a long time. Last week I decided to start it and give it a go no matter what. For the 1st step, started running some experiments with PowerCli

Copy Jobs in Jenkins

Copy Jobs in Jenkins

Recently guy from Dev-Ops team asked me whether I know a method to copy jobs in Jenkins bulkily while renaming them. I needed something to distract me from all these networking shenanigans. So I took the challange and wrote below script to save the day. Never knew Jenkins got a

Seedr the Ultimate Torrent Direct Downloader

Seedr the Ultimate Torrent Direct Downloader

A lot of ISPs, offices, colleges etc block the Utorrent P2P protocol or are filtering the same, hence most times the torrent downloads are very slow or simply they don’t download at all. A Simple solution to this problem is caching torrents online and then downloading the torrent with

ESP 8266 - Arduino- Wifi Monitor

ESP 8266 - Arduino- Wifi Monitor

This is an ESP 8266 Based Arduino WiFi Connectivity monitor. I used a NodeMCU and a simple I2C 16X2 LCD for this. But you can adapt it to any Arduino with a Wifi Module. You might have to do some changes to address those wifi modules 1st. This Script Ping

Wordpress Visual Editor (WYSIWYG) Error

Wordpress Visual Editor (WYSIWYG) Error

Recently I ran into a problem with WordPress built-in WYSIWYG visual editor. The problem was I get a totally blank page at visual tab but when switched to Text(HTML) tab everything is working, Also, the toolbar is not rendering. After doing some extensive research I tried disabling plugins, using

Life in a Hotel

Life in a Hotel

Short and Sweet Then… Almost 5 months ago I was thinking over and over about changing my job. And I got a job in a Tourist Hotel. As an IT technician. They didn’t have any IT guy in the company. So network and computers are a mess. They had

Just a record...

Just a record...

I’m just keeping a record of what’s happening in my life. If something I posted helped you, then I’m glad.