If you are working on AWS environment and if you follow the news related to AWS, you will probably know there are many major data breach happened because of the human negligence, where vast amount of data kept without any protection like encryption, public access blocking. It is all because of human error. We create S3 bucket, and start using them, without realizing on how to keep them protected.…
If someone ask me to recommend one good proxy service, I would recommend none. Why should I trust any of them, as they can do what ever they want with my internet traffic, we don't have any control over them, nor we should trust their privacy policy. So, what will be the solution? Very simple, create your own in pubic cloud. There are many public cloud vendors out there offering…
Have you recently moved away from Linode to any other VPS (Virtual Private Server) providers for hosting your web server? Are you still desperately looking for an alternative to Linode server monitoring tool LongView? Yes…. Ok, I am here to guide you in fixing the web server monitoring issues. I have hosted this blog in Linode for more than two years and their services impressed me a lot. The free…
Nowadays many things are getting blocked by the government, and sometimes without even a valid reason. When something like this happen to you, you probably looking for some way to bypass these restrictions, and most of the times we look for free or cheap VPNs. In today's world, nothing is actually free, there is always something we are giving in return to those so called free providers and most of…
Sometimes back I was working on a free notification system using Telegram Bot (https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution), and I wrote a simple function in PowerShell, which could be use in various ways for sending instant notification to any smartphone for free (http://bit.ly/2ys1gF5). I thought what else we could do with it, and I have got an idea to use it as AWS Automation Bot to perform simple tasks. I have created a set…
As mentioned earlier, we could reset the local admin password of windows instances via registry, but unfortunately that will not going to help us if we forget the user id details or we renamed the user id. And the good news is, we still will be able to logon into the system by creating one new Admin Account using AWS User Data. This process is very simple as described bellow.…
Since we are working in IT industry & proving support to our clients, we are always dependent on various form of notification such as emails, sms, voice etc, and none of them are free, especially when the you are sending those traditional notifications across the globe. Currently almost everyone using smartphone, and mostly those are connected to the internet for 24x7, so I guess, it's time to send those notifications…
I personally can't imagine supporting a big infrastructure without introducing automation and to automate something you have to use command line. If you are more into Windows and started working on AWS for your clients, then I assume that you would love to start managing AWS using AWS PowerShell Module like I do. AWS Console is really good and informative but when it comes to bulk activity I am always…
Finally, I managed to migrate my blog from GoDaddy to Amazon Lightsail, and everything looks good so far. Thanks to Amazon Lightsail for providing a static public IP (34.198.110.82). It's really simple to migrate your blogs from any other hosting Amazon Lightsail, details information can be found here. They have very attractive pricing, which is one of the reason I moved from GoDaddy to Amazon (recently GoDaddy started charging additional…
Cleanup disabled accounts from groups is one of the most boring job, and also take lots of time. Manually it's almost impossible to maintain. Recently I had a request to perform such task for many groups, so, I wrote a script to do it automatically on behalf of me. I am now sharing this script, hoping this might help you as well. This script will do following task automatically. Get…
It is very common that sometimes we disabled the network adapter from VM to trouble shoot some network related issue, and after doing so we suddenly realize that we made a big mistake, especially if we do it on Azure VMs. Suddenly we lost all the communication to the VM, no RDP, no PowerShell, and VM got completely isolated from the network. If AWS, we could fix this very easily…
Recently I was asked to pull the software inventory report from multiple severs hosted in Azure, but unfortunately pulling data from WMI not allowed, only PS Remoting was enabled, so I made some changes on my previous script and used Invoke-command to pull the date for all the servers. It was easy and the most effective way to extract that report and only took 5 minute to get the data. :)…
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