Ansible Playbooks: Writing Your First YAML Automation for Linux
A healthcare logistics client we support runs a mixed fleet of about 45 Linux servers — CentOS and RHEL, mostly. Their infrastructure team had been managing those machines by hand…
Automate Network Captures: Start and Stop-NetEventSession
The Call That Changed How We Handle Network Troubleshooting The call came in at 11pm. A manufacturing client had intermittent network drops hitting their production floor — three times in…
PowerShell -AsJob: Run Long Network Tasks Without the Wait
When Your Script Blocks for 20 Minutes A managed services client we support runs a Windows environment across three sites — roughly 400 endpoints. Their network team had a PowerShell…
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.…
PowerShell CimSession: Remote Network Cmdlets at Scale
Forty Servers, One Afternoon, One Script We got called in after a client’s previous MSP left them with no documentation and no standardized network adapter configuration across their server fleet.…
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…
PowerShell Automation Readiness Audit for IT Teams
I used to spend two hours every Friday manually reviewing scripts before they hit production. Scan for error handling. Check the logging. Run through a mental list of twelve items…
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,…
PowerShell Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks Guide
PowerShell scripts, functions, and script blocks are the three core building blocks of IT automation for system administrators. Knowing which to use – and how to structure each one correctly…