Working with YAML in PowerShell Using powershell-yaml
The Ticket That Started This Walkthrough The ticket said a scheduled DSC pull job was failing on three of seven nodes. Twenty minutes of log reading later, the pattern was…
Linux Process Management: ps, top, kill, and systemctl Audit
The 3 AM Page That Started This Checklist A logistics client paged us at 3 AM because their order API was returning 502s. The fix took ninety seconds once we…
PowerShell REST API Calls with Invoke-RestMethod: A Practical Guide
Where this started While working on a monitoring integration for a logistics client, I got an idea for a small helper script that would pull ticket counts from their ITSM…
Packaging Non-MSI Apps for Intune Win32 Deployment
The EXE Problem Nobody Warns You About A logistics client called us in a panic. Their helpdesk was burning 12 hours a week walking users through manual installs of 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…
NGINX Serving WordPress: Recommended Config for Performance
Where The Idea Came From While working on a migration for a client running three high-traffic WordPress sites last month, I got an idea for writing up the NGINX WordPress…
PowerShell Select-Object: Master Object Properties Fast
From 300 Lines of Output to Three Columns in One Pipe One of our managed services clients had a junior admin exporting process lists to Excel, then deleting columns by…
PowerShell Module Manifest: Versioning and Dependencies Post-Mortem
The Ticket That Started at 03:17 The pager went off at 03:17. A managed client’s nightly reporting job had failed across 40 endpoints. The error was short: The specified module…
PowerShell Variables: Scope, Types, and Best Practices
Last month we inherited a 3,000-line PowerShell deployment script from a manufacturing client. The thing was riddled with global variables bleeding into functions, type mismatches crashing midnight runs, and zero…
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…