PowerShell Remoting Auth: Kerberos vs NTLM vs CredSSP
The 2 AM Call That Started This Post A managed customer paged us last quarter. Their nightly PowerShell job hit a remote file server, then tried to copy from a…
PowerShell OutBuffer: How Pipeline Buffering Actually Works
The Script That Hammered a SQL Box at 3AM We had a client whose nightly reconciliation script was melting a SQL server every night around 3AM. The script pulled roughly…
Bash Functions: Defining, Calling, and Returning Values
Last quarter a client’s deployment script hit 900 lines with zero bash functions. Just a massive wall of sequential commands. When something broke at 2 AM, nobody could figure out…
Bulk Import Data into SharePoint 2016 Lists with PowerShell
The Problem With Clicking Your Way Through 3,000 Rows A client came to us mid-migration last year with a familiar problem. They had 11 SharePoint lists and roughly 3,000 rows…
InterfaceAlias vs InterfaceDescription: Targeting NICs in PowerShell
Wrong NIC, Wrong Config, Very Bad Day A healthcare client came to us after a PowerShell script someone wrote six months earlier started throwing errors across 40 Windows Server boxes.…
GitHub CI/CD Automation: Stop Deploying Like It’s 2012
The Problem Nobody Admits to Having A dev team we inherited during a client onboarding was doing manual deployments via FTP. In 2025. One guy held all the credentials. He’d…
Windows Group Policy Incident: A Real Post-Mortem
It was a Tuesday. 4:47 PM. My phone started ringing before I even got up from my desk. Help desk on line one, my manager on line two, and a…
Azure Cloud Infrastructure: Hard Lessons from a Real Outage
Six hours of downtime. One Azure region. Zero redundancy. I got the call at 11 PM on a Tuesday and spent the rest of the night explaining to a very…
PowerShell Parameters, Validation & Dynamic Parameters
Related reading: PowerShell Automation Readiness Audit for IT Teams | PowerShell Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks Guide PowerShell parameter design determines whether a script is a reliable production tool or…
GitHub Discussions: Community Engagement for IT Teams
GitHub Discussions is a collaborative communication feature built directly into GitHub repositories, enabling threaded conversations, polls, and structured community feedback in one place. For IT professionals managing infrastructure-as-code, automation scripts,…