Posted on 12.12.18 by Adam Bertram
Here is a quick and easy way to remotely log off end users who are still logged into their computers. This is especially useful when you are trying to do maintenance.
Posted on 11.22.18 by Jeff Edwards
With the holiday’s right around the corner, it is time to give thanks for the people that are really important in your life—like your SysAdmin (aka your Systems Administrator).
Posted on 11.20.18 by Michael O'Dwyer
In the computing world, virtualization by way of virtual machines is used to describe a method of avoiding the purchase of multiple physical computers or servers, one for each operating system.
Posted on 11.15.18 by Dan Franciscus
While it supports Windows and Linux, creating an OS image is vastly different between the two. In this article, I will focus on how Packer is used for Windows OS image creation.
Posted on 11.12.18 by Michael O'Dwyer
The EU Copyright Directive has been labeled a bad deal for all parties and threatens the Internet as we know it. If it's approved, how are businesses going to respond?
Posted on 11.07.18 by Greg Mooney
Shadow IT is a real problem in the modern workplace. In this episode of Defrag This, we explore the reasons users turn to the dark side, the risks of unsanctioned IT stacks, and some of the solutions IT teams can use to curb Shadow IT.
Posted on 11.02.18 by Dan Franciscus
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still the most popular cloud platform and Packer provides great integration that enables users to import builds into AWS and convert them to Amazon Machine Images (AMI).
Posted on 10.31.18 by Edgar Allan Mooney
Once upon a blood moon, there was a sysadmin called Kyle and he almost lost it all to the ghost in the machine...
Posted on 10.23.18 by Adam Bertram
Running commands locally on the remote computers is a common task many IT admins have to do every day. Here's how you can do that in PowerShell.
Posted on 10.10.18 by Prateek Singh
Tired of managing Windows system administration tasks manually? Wish you could set up a few Python scripts instead? Where there's a will, there's a way! In this article, we'll show you how to install Python's WMI module and how you can use it to perform system...
