In today’s digital-first world, collaboration and communication tools are the backbone of modern organizations. Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite, is one of the most popular cloud-based productivity suites, offering a wide array of tools including Gmail, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Meet. These tools enable teams to collaborate seamlessly, access documents from anywhere, […]
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Struggling to add network printers to a print server or laptop? The GUI can be clunky and inefficient, especially when dealing with multiple devices. Fortunately, PowerShell offers a fast, efficient, and scalable way to handle this task—saving you time and headaches. Whether you’re managing one printer or dozens, this guide will walk you through adding
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For those who are new to Python development, it is good to have a roadmap of what tools are needed to get started with development. For those who are more experienced with development, it is nice to have all the links in one place so you don’t have to go searching everytime. This article lists
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Vagrant is a tool made by Hashicorp for provisioning and de-provisioning virtual machines and groups of virtual machines. Frequently Vagrant is used for brining up test machines on your local computer. But, sometimes you want to run your virtual machines in your data center. In this article, I will describe how to use Vagrant with
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This article will describe how to read and write secrets to Vault using the vault CLI and CURL. These instructions are assuming you are on either Linux or Mac OSX. Later we will add instructions for windows. That said, most of the Vault CLI commands should work fine on windows as well. Before you can
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Hashicorp Vault has a variety of ways to access it. You can access it via a CLI client, via the rest API/CURL, and via a third party GUI client. This article will discuss how to set up the CLI and one of the 3rd party GUI’s available on Github. Installing the Vault CLI Client Vault
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In this article we will discuss error handling using Python With Statements Try/Except/Finally statements, show how to use these in combination, and compare how it works to try/catch code blocks in other languages. What is error handling? Error handling is when you put in some extra code to tell your script what to do when
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The windows Update CLI commands are useful for troubleshooting Windows Update errors. And they are helpful when you need to automate the windows update tasks. In newer versions of windows, the WUAUCLT command has been deprecated and replaced with the usoclient. In this article we have included the options and syntax for using wuault, usoclient,
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When you think of compute, your mind probably goes straight to virtual machines. But there are actually at least 5 different kinds of compute on Google Cloud. Today we will discuss what these different kinds of compute are, how to use them, and when you might use each kind of compute. Abstraction levels Before we
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There are a huge number of WordPress hosting providers out there. Even WordPress does hosting on wordpress.com. There are pros and cons to using these hosting providers vs hosting it yourself. I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you should pay someone else to host your WordPress site, or if
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