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Azure, Microsoft, PowerShell

How to Update Azure Resource Group Tags using a CSV & PowerShell

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Shaun Wilkinson

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April 30, 2024

As businesses scale their operations in the Azure ecosystem, ensuring Resource Groups are appropriately tagged becomes a strategic imperative. Yet, merely tagging resources once isn’t enough; regular audits are necessary to maintain alignment with your policies and processes. Moreover, streamlining this process through automation can significantly enhance operational agility and…
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Azure, Microsoft, PowerShell

How to Export Azure Resource Group Locks using PowerShell

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Shaun Wilkinson

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April 26, 2024

Locks play a pivotal role in the management of Azure resources, particularly in Production environments. However, when the need arises for a swift assessment of lock status, perhaps for auditing purposes or to facilitate scheduled actions, efficiency becomes paramount
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PowerShell

How to Export a List of DevOps Commits using PowerShell

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 15, 2024

A short article today, covering how to export a csv list containing all recent commits to a DevOps project using PowerShell and the DevOps API. This will require that you have an Azure DevOps token with read access to commits.
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Other

Web Push Notifications using Service Workers and Redirecting to a Specific Page

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Shaun Wilkinson

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March 13, 2024

In today’s hyper-competitive digital landscape, businesses and individuals are constantly seeking innovative ways to engage with their audience and drive conversions. Leveraging Service Workers to deliver these notifications offers businesses a direct and efficient means to communicate with users, even when they’re not actively browsing the website. This technology enables…
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Azure, Microsoft

How-To Create an OAuth app policy to notify you about new OAuth applications

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Shaun Wilkinson

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November 13, 2023

This is one of the newer Microsoft Secure Score recommended actions, but how do we enable it and what’s the point behind it? We’ll explore both of those questions in this post.
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AWS

How to Delete an AWS Managed Account using Consolidated Billing

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Shaun Wilkinson

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October 5, 2023

I tend to find AWS quite a bit more complicated and laborious than Azure, I hope to change my opinion on this eventually, but for now, that still rings true. For those of us who utilise Managed Accounts, and specifically for larger organisations where Consolidated Billing has been enabled, it’s…
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AWS

AWS – Consolidated Billing not Providing a Single Invoice?

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Shaun Wilkinson

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September 8, 2023

You can use the consolidated billing feature in AWS Organizations to consolidate billing and payment for multiple AWS accounts, but what if this isn’t working and despite following the available AWS documentation you still don’t seem to be receiving Consolidated Billing? I’ll give you something to check that may fix…
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Linux, Microsoft

How to use ReShade on Proton/Linux

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Shaun Wilkinson

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August 14, 2023

This is another article which is vaguely in the ‘Moving from Windows to Linux’ series. ReShade is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software developed by crosire. Imagine your favorite game with ambient occlusion, real depth of field effects, color correction and more … ReShade exposes an automated…
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Games, Linux

Moving from Windows to Linux – How to Limit Game FPS in Steam

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Shaun Wilkinson

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July 21, 2023

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true. This is a bit of an odd one for this blog as I tend to limit it to more business-related topics, but I found a lack of proper…
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Linux

Moving from Windows to Linux – How to make the taskbar/panel look more like Windows

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July 20, 2023

The old adage “How do you know somebody is a Linux user? Because they’ll tell you” is about to hold up true. In this article I’m going to configure the taskbar/panel found in Linux Mint to make it a little more familiar, I have a multi-monitor setup so wanted to…
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