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Azure Site Recovery on Hyper-V Server

I’ve yet to find any documentation that covers this seemingly simple topic but when setting up the Azure Site Recovery Provider on a Hyper-V 2012R2 (or presumably 2016) Server that’s essentially a Windows Server...

Azure Application Gateway Charts

Azure Application Gateways provide a reverse proxy Layer 7 load balancer solution in Microsoft Azure. From a PaaS point of view, they’re very handy, providing full Azure integration for deploying through ARM, PowerShell and...

PowerShell Core 6 and Raspberry Pi

PowerShell Core 6.0 and Raspberry Pi

TL;DR – Start PowerShell as the root user, install the module for All Users and then set up your cron job to run the script in the root user’s crontab. If, like me, you...

Windows PowerShell and PHP

Update an installation of PHP on Windows

It will come as no surprise that I operate my website on Windows and WordPress so it should come as no surprise that it also uses PHP. Part of running the server using PHP...

Home Automation with Hive Active Plugs

Problem I’ve had a little bee in my bonnet for the last few years with a “feature” on my clothes dryer. It’s an auto-sensing dryer that dries clothes to certain levels such as Ready...

Set language, culture and timezone using PowerShell

As much as I’d like to say this is a perfect one-liner solution, it isn’t. It doesn’t actually count as PowerShell either, technically. This article is written for people deploying from Marketplace Azure images...