My first Ansible-Galaxy role!

Since I started working in DevOps, ansible has been a key system to deploy and maintain systems and applications. One of the first systems I converted is now available for download on the ansible-galaxy. This site is a great place to get pre-made scripts to deploy solutions. So what does it do? It configures a list of raspberry pi’s to Continue reading My first Ansible-Galaxy role!

Dual Delivery, Dual Cloud, Office 365 and Google Apps, and and and and…

So recently I had a client that wanted any email sent to any domain to arrive in all email systems, why? can’t tell you that but it is possible and here’s 2 solutions how. Build your own email filter based on postfix, do all your anti-spam, anti-spoofing and email routing there, here’s a great post on how that works from PJR Continue reading Dual Delivery, Dual Cloud, Office 365 and Google Apps, and and and and…

Welcoming Disqus

After toying with a ton of comments plugins, I’ve decided to go with Disqus.  I’ve use it for a few other technical blogs and it seems to do everything I could want. Feel free to comment, ask questions, or give critical feedback.  I’ll be sure to censor your input as it suits me.

Helpful Linux Commands

This is mostly for me, but you can use it for you. Fix Permissions, common for WEB find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Additionally for WordPress. chmod 444 wp-config.php .htaccess Compress folders into tar-gz tar -pczf archive.tgz /folder Change the Hostname properly in centos hostnamectl set-hostname server.example.com Tmux Continue reading Helpful Linux Commands

Using Git on Windows

As of this week I’m officially working as a Sr. Systems Engineer in DevOps! What a blast, I get to work with some of the most intelligent people with a vast range of experience and knowledge. I’ve spent a ton of time already using Git to actually commit and push changes (how they do configuration management) which I find ingenious Continue reading Using Git on Windows

Exchange 2010/2013 Helpful scripts

This sets your inside/outside and auto-discover URLs to the same address so you can buy a single domain SSL for your exchange server. $FQDN = Read-Host -Prompt ‘mail.example.com’ Get-webservicesVirtualDirectory | Set-webservicesVirtualDirectory –ExternalUrl https://$FQDN/Ews/Exchange.asmx –InternalUrl https://$FQDN/Ews/Exchange.asmx Get-OabVirtualDirectory | Set-OabVirtualDirectory –ExternalUrl https://$FQDN/Oab –InternalUrl https://$FQDN/Oab Get-EcpVirtualDirectory | Set-EcpVirtualDirectory –ExternalUrl https://$FQDN/Ecp –InternalUrl https://$FQDN/Ecp Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory –ExternalUrl https://$FQDN/Owa –InternalUrl https://$FQDN/Owa Get-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory | Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl Continue reading Exchange 2010/2013 Helpful scripts