Category: Windows
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Authenticating To Ansible Tower Via Windows Active Directory
The Ansible automation platform has many awesome features, and one in particular is its ability to authenticate off of something other than itself. A common one I’m running into with customers is having Tower authenticate off of their Active Directory, so that’s what I’m going to tackle here. This assumes you have a functioning AD…
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Backdoor Access To Cisco Devnet Reserved Sandboxes – Windows Portproxy
I recently needed to do a demo of my Cisco ACI Ansible stuff, and unfortunately the always on service was down for maint…NBD I’ll reserve one. “Uhhh you can only get direct access via the anyconnect client…oh no…” So to get the lab up quick fast I ran the anyconnect client on my workstation, then…
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Bring Back Shape Tools In Visio 2010 – AKA Unions
I miss all of my toolbars in Visio… After much searching I found Developer Mode. This gives you a new tab that brings virtually everything you miss back!
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Test Exchange Active Sync
I was setting up my new email and it wouldn’t for the life of me work. I found this site www.testexchangeconnectivity.com. It lets you do a test via your browser and quickly diagnosed the issue. I popped into AD and adjusted some permissions as suggested and BOOM…everything is rocking and rolling. 🙂
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Command-Line Permissions Windows 2003
I found the CACLS command: CACLS filename [/T] [/E] [/C] [/G user:perm] [/R user […]] [/P user:perm […]] [/D user […]] filename Displays ACLs. /T Changes ACLs of specified files in the current directory and all subdirectories. /E Edit ACL instead of replacing it. /C Continue on access denied errors. /G user:perm Grant specified user…
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Convert CIDR Addresses For Use With Mikrotik Firewall
CountryIPBlocks has a method to easily grab the CIDR blocks for various countries. They have methods to put these in formats for Cisco and such…though they don’t have one for Mikrotik. So, I wrote a lil program that will create address lists with firewall rules or just firewall rules based on these address blocks. What…
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Replay Wireshark Captures With PlayCap
I was recently testing some SNMP Traps being generated by a module I installed on a generator. All of a sudden my monitoring system quit alerting properly…:( I wanted to test rapidly while working on the alerts, but I’m no where near the generator, nor do I want to sit at the enclosure to generate…