First look at Universal Automation Desktop There are many ways to do automation scheduling – whether its Jenkins or even Windows Task Scheduler. Each toolset has its place or specialization today we are looking at the son of Ironman Software’s PowerShell Universal Automation platform – the Desktop Edition! The Desktop edition replicates some of the same functionality as the Universal Automation platform, however, aimed more at being able to drive automation scheduling from your Desktop! Entirely for someone like me who...…

Update your Azure Local Network Gateway IP with PowerShell One of the issues you face with setting up an Azure Site to Site VPN is making sure that your Azure Local Network Gateway always has your Public/On-premises IP. This setup is fine when used in environments that have Static IPs (and yes if setting this up for a Business or Production, it is highly recommended to have a static IP!). However, when used in environments like my home network or lab environments - which...…

How to manage cost in Microsoft Azure Microsoft have built up the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, to offer scale and performance as and when needed, this gives customers the ability to not only remain competitive by lead and disrupt their industries without having to worry about on-premises datacentre capacity, redundancy and manual processes, this however comes at a cost, where engineers may have in the past not cared or been responsible for cost – the Cloud has enabled us not only to consume...…

Using PowerShell DSC for Windows Hardening I am not a DSC (Desired State Configuration) expert, however, the technology has always interested me and as such, something I like to dabble in it. There are many reasons for using PowerShell DSC and hopefully today, I can help enlighten you towards some of its use. DSC can be used for things such as: Installing IIS and other Windows Features – and making sure they are installed! Installing Apache – Yes – even on...…