Azure Storage Explorer
The Azure Cosmos DB integration with Storage Explorer has been deprecated. You should use the Azure Portal, Azure Portal desktop app or the standalone Azure Cosmos explorer instead.Read More →
The Azure Cosmos DB integration with Storage Explorer has been deprecated. You should use the Azure Portal, Azure Portal desktop app or the standalone Azure Cosmos explorer instead.Read More →
Firefox 70 added a new „Certificate Viewer“ feature which moves the „Window“-based GUI to a „Web-Page“-View. different look no new features missing features Export Certificate So this is no „new feature“ but a „modification of an existing feature“ – with less features. Reenable the former full featuresetRead More →
Not a new Feature for Windows, to use an enterprise CA to create server certificates. And Firefox added the possibility to trust those certificates ages ago – but still you’ll get an TLS-error-message (in German „Kein Verbindungsversuch unternommen: Mögliches Sicherheitsproblem“). This is no Security-Problem, it’s just a problem of using stupid defaults causing people to waste their time and providing no little level of security, since a CA operated on my own is much more trustworthy than public CAs which firefox trusts blindly. Solution Open about:config and changeRead More →
Until everything in my lab runs on Terraform, PowerShell will be a valid solution for automation purposes. Install PowerShell 7 https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/powershell/scripting/install/installing-powershell-core-on-windows?view=powershell-7.1 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/tag/v7.0.4 Allow Execution of PowerShell-Scripts Install Power-CLI Allow Self-Signed Certs [Lab Environment]Read More →
The Firefox-Developers know best what’s good for their users, so they hide a bunch of Settings in about:config so it’s hard to find them. Some of them I change in every Firefox installation: ask me if i want to download MP4-Files, disable the build-in Media-Player media.play-stand-alone = false use the DNS, not Google – if I enter a single word as URL keyword.enabled = false stop asking me if I really want to leave a page dom.disable_beforeunload := true stop autocompletion in the URL-Bar browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.prefix = (empty) browser.fixup.alternate.suffix = (empty) accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0 browser.fixup.alternate.suffix prod.localbrowser.fixup.domainwhitelist.wiki trueRead More →
I just gave someone the advice without being asked (ignoring all i know about „nonviolent communication“ – sorry for that!) to include a „Scope“ in his blog: he wrote an article how to setup a Raspberry-Pi but skipped all security considerations about how to setup a productive computer system. I assume many readers of his blog don’t have a clue how to harden a linux-operated Raspberry-Pi. I assume: those readers need at least a hint: „there are additional steps required“ or even better, concrete advice: „what to do next“ – maybe in a follow-up article. How many people are part of a bot-net since the’veRead More →
Setting the variable TF_LOG to an arbitrary value enables „TRACE“-level Debugging available too: DEBUG, INFO, WARN or ERROR to „STDOUT“, TF_LOG_PATH to write to a file. When running eg. „terraform apply“ all debug-messages will get appended to the specified file.Read More →
When deploying Virtual-Machines by OVF/OVA-Files in automated manner, eg. using PowerShell of Terraform, it’s crucial to set all individual deployment parameters using the provisioning system. Discover the available Properties using PowerShell OFV-Tool Using PowerShell Create a vCenter-Connection Retrieve the OVF-Config-Object Display all contained Properties („=Keys“) Deployment-Option? Using OVF-Tool OVFTOOL.EXE, provided by VMware (Download OVFTOOL) allows to inspect existing OVA/OFV-Files, too.Read More →
When Linux prompts to reboot a server – „for reasons“, of course – some background information might be welcome. First try: 😉 Better: Let’s go.Read More →
Of course, every release of an linux-distribution has to change the way very basic network settings are configured. 😉 Ubuntu 20.04 Server LTS to be fair: „netplan“ has been in place since at least release 17.10 the „subiquity“-tool which has written the yaml-file has been confusing me… Step 1: Figure out – which IP/DNS-Settings where set by DHCP Step 2: Disable (if required) automation tools – here „subiquity“ This is YAML: Optional: Try a temporarily YAML-File before Apply safeguard if you are using a ssh-connection Roll back, after a Timeout Step 3: Edit/Apply NetPlan Config ApplyRead More →