Wednesday, September 18, 2019

FREE (or VERY cheap) EC2 Proxy Server - Windows Over Ubuntu Proxy on AWS

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Ever been sitting in a hotel (or your home) and tried to watch your favorite sports team on a streaming service, but couldn't due to the...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

A Few of My Favorite Online Tools

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IP Calculator ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam Review

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As I posted recently I've been using some great resources to prepare for some AWS exams. In my  AWS Certified Solutions Architect Offic...

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam Review

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I've been working with AWS for 10 years now and love it more than ever! About four years ago when I first learned of AWS Certifications ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Disable TLS on Server 2012 R2 in the Registry with PowerShell

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It's common knowledge that TLS is preferred over SSL because it provides better security, and because an industry-wide push to stop us...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Shrinking EBS Windows Boot Volume

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After migrating my physical server to AWS  recently I needed to shrink the boot volume a bit. The original server's drive was ~1TB, so t...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Migrating Physical Windows Servers to AWS AMI - EC2

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Doing What They Say Can't be Done I've had to do this task a few times but because they were separated by a significant amount of t...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

HowTo: Install AWS CLI on Both Windows and Linux

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Several years ago before the unified AWS CLI was released I wrote about installing the EC2 command line tools . Now it's time to update...
Friday, September 16, 2016

Install PowerShell v5 on Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 R2

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Prior to updating to PowerShell version 5 make sure to be running the latest version of .NET Framework (.NET 4.6.1 as of this writing). See ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Install .NET 4.6.1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 R2

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Start by downloading .NET 4.6.1  from Microsoft. Launch the installer - I typically do this by running the command c:\temp\NDP461-KB3102436...