PowerShell’s evolution from a Windows-centric scripting language to a cross-platform automation powerhouse has firmly planted it in the heart of modern DevOps. Nowhere is this transformation more apparent than in the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that drive reliable software delivery. GitHub Actions, with its ease of workflow automation and native integration with the world’s largest code hosting
Category: Admin Tools
Review/Discuss of various handy tools for Admins..
The Ultimate Command Center for AdGuard Home Power Users
The Problem: “Friction & Context Switching” Whether you run a single AdGuard Home instance on a Raspberry Pi or manage a fleet across multiple locations, the daily management experience often feels disconnected. To simply check if your server is online, pause protection for a quick test, or block an annoying tracker, you have to: It doesn’t seem like much, but
S3 Bucket Audit Report using AWS PowerShell Script – Secure your S3 Buckets
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
Powerful AWS Bot for automation using Telegram Bot API written in PowerShell
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
Add new Admin Account to AWS Windows Instances to rescue the system
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
Cleanup disabled users from AD Group/s
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