DNS – Peter the Automator

Find and remove domain DNS records using Powershell

Removing a set of DNS records over multiple Microsoft domains can be a bit of a hassle sometimes. With PowerShell it’s rather easy by using the Get-DnsServerResourceRecord. Here is a small example of how to use this cmdlet. First we retrieve all DNS records in our current domain that have test in the name.Then we…

Find and remove domain DNS records using Powershell

NET ::ERR_CERT_INVALID error in Google Chrome when visiting websites using a private (Root) certificate

We were introduced with a rather strange issue where a website using an internal URL with an SSL certificate was deemed invalid by Google Chrome for about 30% of the company. Both the website and root certificates are not expired and available through the Windows Certificate Store. Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Internet Explorer (I know,…

Pester 5 Configuration settings

Since Pester v5 was released this legacy warning appears every time a Pester test is performed with the -CodeCoverage flag being used. WARNING: You are using Legacy parameter set that adapts Pester 5 syntax to Pester 4 syntax. This parameter set is deprecated, and does not work 100%. The -Strict and -PesterOption parameters are ignored,…

ForEach versus ForEach-Object

The ForEach-Object cmdlet performs an operation on each item in an array of input objects. There are two methods to implement the ForEach command; 1. $Range | ForEach-Object {}2. ForEach ($Number in $Range) {} Both methods perform the same actions with the same outcome, but they do their job in a different way. In this…

Run Python (Django) websites in IIS

I got into a scenario where it was required to run a Python (Django) website in IIS and, as an additional requirement, the configuration needed to be fully automated. I made a little index with all the steps that I took to make the scenario happen. Install Python Install Microsoft IIS with required extra features…

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