Newb's Journal
I know this isn't the best format for a blog, but I don't want to maintain a separate site just for this. So-well...here you go.
CCNA Prep
CCNA Prep: Applying ACLs in the Right Direction
The objective of this page is to clarify some possible confusion about how standard access contro...
CCNA Prep: Proxy ARP
As part of my cert prep, I've started working my way through the Boson Netsim CCNA labs. The expe...
CCNA Prep: Misinformation in Boson NetSim Labs
Many people speak very highly of Boson and their ExSim and NetSim products. From my experience so...
CCNA Prep: Setting Up Cisco Modeling Labs on Proxmox
Background Based on the many enthusiastic recommendations from various CCNA prep courses and com...
Hacking on ThinPro
Hacking on ThinPro: Enabling SSH
Welcome to my life hacking on ThinPro in an enterprise environment. Today's goal is to enable SSH...
Hacking on ThinPro: Preventing User Interruptions
Welcome to the life of a ThinPro admin. Every software update and OS upgrade brings fun new chall...
Hacking on ThinPro: Sneaky Workarounds
This is a continuation of Preventing User Interruptions in which I demonstrated a loop that check...
Hacking on ThinPro: Extension Properties
Summary This article only applies to extension properties in ThinPro. Managing Windows IoT devic...
Hacking on ThinPro: Fixing EAP-TLS
I ran into a problem awhile ago which was causing ThinPro to strip an issuing CA out of a certifi...
Learning PowerShell
Learning PowerShell: A Bash Fan's Experience
Being fairly new to LinkedIn, I figured it would be a good idea to post some of my recent work. I...
Learning PowerShell: Using PSComputerName
Let's run through a quick scenario. This won't take long, I promise. An Invoke-Command block ret...
Learning PowerShell: Removing Unknown Profiles
This is going to be another quick solution to a problem I have. Long story short, we have a lot o...
Learning PowerShell: Finding Users in Folder Permissions
One of the very first things you learn about when managing file and folder permissions (or any pe...
Learning PowerShell: Logging Pings
The problem I have to solve today is that I want to keep a log of pings for a certain device. Tha...
Extracting Keys and Certs
I have a problem... I want all of my internal services to have a valid certificate from my certi...
Blocking Unauthorized Access: LDAP Filters
I love BookStack. It's a simple wiki server which is easy to deploy, and I am a huge fan of how i...
Hacky Nonsense
Mounting Cluster Volumes to Folders with an HA Windows File Server
The Problem I Need to Solve I won't get too deep into the "why" behind this, but I need to mount...
Creating a Default Start Menu Layout
Summary This guide covers the process of distributing a Start menu template to the default user ...