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Ben Gelens

Automation, Development & Cloud

  1. Rebooting...

  2. AWS Custom Config Rule backed by PowerShell

  3. Azure DevOps Agents as Container Instances

  4. Azure ARM Linked Templates and Complete mode

  5. DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 5: Containers!

  6. New Terraform Azure Automation Resources

  7. DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 4: Migrate EDB or MDB to SQL

  8. DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 3: Pre-create the Pull Server Database

  9. DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 2: Managing the Pull Server with DSCPullServerAdmin

  10. DSC Pull Server reloaded. Part 1: SQL Support

  11. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 10: Puppet bootstrap

  12. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 9: Puppet Modules, Roles and more

  13. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 8: Puppet Server

  14. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 7: Puppet notifications

  15. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 6: Puppet intro

  16. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 5: Chef Client Settings

  17. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 4: Chef bootstrapping

  18. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 3: Chef Server

  19. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 2: Chef Notifications

  20. Working with DSC in the context of 3rd party CM tooling. Part 1: Chef intro

  21. Welcome to my new blog!

  22. Creating an Application Deployment Gallery Item – SQL Gallery item

  23. Creating an Application Deployment Gallery Item – Prerequisites

  24. Adding and using DSC For Linux Azure Automation DSC Gallery Item to Azure Stack TP2

  25. Adding and using DSC For Linux Gallery Item to Azure Stack TP2

  26. Adding and using the DSC For Linux extension v2 to Azure Stack TP2

  27. Adding and using OS Gallery Items to Azure Stack TP2

  28. Adding and using CentOS 7.2 (or any other image) to Azure Stack TP2

  29. Open source PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and OS X!

  30. Adding and using the DSC For Linux VM Extension to Azure Stack TP1

  31. Adding CentOS 7 to Azure Stack TP1

  32. The case of potentially broken PackageManagement for Windows 10 Insiders

  33. Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: The DSC resource

  34. Why you should install WMF 5.0 Production Preview on your SMA runbook workers

  35. Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: Inside the module

  36. Deploy Windows Containers with custom PSDSC resource

  37. Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: PowerShell Module Usage

  38. Journey to a Windows Azure Pack VM Role DSC Resource: Introduction

  39. Lessons learned: DSC Pull Security and Integration with WAPack [DUPSUG]

  40. BYO-DSC with VM Roles (A VM DSC Extension alternative for WAPack)

  41. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 10 – Closing notes

  42. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 9 – Create a Domain Join DSC resource

  43. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 8 – Create, deploy and validate the final VM Role

  44. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 7 – Creating a configuration document with encrypted content

  45. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 6 – PFX Repository Website

  46. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 5 – Resource Kit

  47. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 4 – Pull Server

  48. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 3 – Creating the VM Role (step 1 and 2)

  49. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 2 – PKI

  50. Integrating VM Role with Desired State Configuration Part 1 – Introduction and Scenario

  51. Use SMA Complex Type asset to store product keys in encrypted form

  52. SMA Database purge job and SQL AlwaysOn AG

  53. SCVMM 2012 R2 UR4, move host group assigned services to a cloud (The supported way)!

  54. Losing UDP traffic in a Hyper-V environment with NVGRE and can't explain why?

  55. WAPack hoster intercepts tenant user provided local admin credentials during VM role deployment (fixed in UR4)

  56. Designing VM Roles with SMA in mind

  57. SMA Runbook: Enable Kerberos Constrained delegation for Hyper-V Live Migration and ISO sharing in AD and SCVMM

  58. Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Running the Post-Deployment Automation and Bonus – Part 5

  59. Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Constructing the Post Deployment Automation (continued) Part 4

  60. Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Constructing the Post-Deployment Automation – Part 3

  61. Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Pre-Conditions Part 2

  62. Bare Metal Post-Deployment – Introduction and Scenario Part 1

  63. Hyper-V Hyper-threading Enabled or Disabled?

  64. Live Migration with Fibre Channel HBA Blocked: No Physical Port Available

  65. Migrate Azure Pack databases to new SQL Instance

  66. Migrate SMA database to new SQL Instance

  67. SMA Runbook jobs stay Queued SOLVED! Plus some installation issues SOLVED as well!

  68. Live Migration Blocked by NPIV ports still in use Solved!

  69. MAC Conflict caused by SCVMM Software Defined / Converged Networking SOLVED!

  70. SCVMM 2012R2 Bare Metal Deployment Hyper-V 2012R2 takes forever SOLVED!

  71. Discover Numa Misalligned VMs and report on amount and percentage of remote memory

  72. Hyper-V vCPU to Core ratio script

  73. Hyper-V 2012R2 failing network connectivity using fully converged networking SOLVED!

  74. Upgrading SCOM 2012SP1 to 2012R2 using fresh 2012R2 Servers

  75. Offline Updating Hyper-V VMs

  76. Constrained delegation for Hyper-V live migration and SCVMM library ISO sharing

  77. Testing ODX and need to switch it on and off all the time?

  78. Problems with Guest Clustering and using Teaming on the Hyper-V host?

  79. SCVMM 2012 SP1: Remove Computer Tier from Running Service

  80. SCVMM 2012 SP1, move host group assigned service to a cloud!

  81. Howto install a new domain on Server 2012 Core

  82. Howto compensate for bad CMDlet implementations! PSO

  83. Quick win

  84. RODC Allowed Password Replication made easy!

  85. Windows Advanced Firewall Remote Management in a Kerberos only Domain