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Tools: jc and jq to parse and filter JSON output

Posted by Ivan
/ August 16, 2023 / Leave a comment

Exploring IPv6 stack and having fun from shell. On my debian jumbox sitting in AWS I run a ping, pipe the output into an JSON array and filter the array. Two tools–> “jc” JSON Convert and “jq” JSON process are getting the job done. I run the ping to Delta.nl website and get the IP address with average response 🙂 ping -c 4 delta.nl | jc –ping -p | jq ‘.destination_ip,.round_trip_ms_avg’ “2606:4700:4400::ac40:9425” 1.349 Having...
Kali: Essential terminal commands

Posted by Ivan
/ May 29, 2021 / Leave a comment

During my Cyber Security study, I am using Kali operating system to learn Linux and commands I need to use. I am maintaining this list as reference to help me document my research and things I have learned. 1. How can I search for files from a terminal? Run sudo updatedb I am searching for files that have wallpaper in the filename with extension of .png locate *wallpaper*.png 2. How...
Certification: Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals PL-900

Posted by Ivan
/ January 17, 2021 / Leave a comment

Beginning of December I successfully passed for the Azure AZ-900 exam and I had another Virtual Training Day booked for “Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals” on 17th of December. I followed that training session and wanted to give it a try having a second fundamentals certificate for Power Platform. My skillset has been mainly IT-Infrastructure and by learning the basics from Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and more I would...
Certification: Azure Foundation AZ-900

Posted by Ivan
/ December 9, 2020 / Leave a comment

After 12,5 years I finally achieved a new AZ-900 Microsoft certificate. Azure Foundation track that was offered free by Microsoft including the exam voucher. I booked the exam, experienced complete new of way of testing for this remote proctored test (needed to cover my Mac and second big screen) and made it through last week. In 2008 I upgraded my MCSE 2000 to 2003 and since that time did lots...
PowerShell: No match was found for the specified search criteria and module

Posted by Ivan
/ November 27, 2020 / Leave a comment

I was trying to connect to Azure AD to run a MFA report to troubleshoot a reported authentication problem. While working on a Windows Server 2019 server I encountered following errors: PS C:\Windows\system32> Install-Module MSOnline WARNING: Unable to resolve package source 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/'. PackageManagement\Install-Package : No match was found for the specified search criteria and module name 'MSOnline'. Try Get-PSRepository to see all available registered module repositories. At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PowerShellGet\1.0.0.1\PSModule.psm1:1772 char:21...
PowerShell: New-MigrationBatch for Exchange Online migration

Posted by Ivan
/ July 11, 2019 / Leave a comment

The following PowerShell script helped myself and the IT team to initiate migration from Exchange to Office 365 Exchange Online cloud environment. I had couple of challenges to solve before this script was fully operation and working in the environment I am in. Proxy server is being used and to allow to use PowerShell directly the Proxy.Credentials needs to be passed within the environment. Another challenge I had is that to use the...
Dell: Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 – Smartbyte issue from Rivet Networks

Posted by Ivan
/ February 6, 2019 / 5 Comments

Recently I got my hands on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 2-in-1 that I needed to migrate from another failed notebook. I struggled for some moments as the Windows Easy Transfer utility from Microsoft was phased out and not available anymore for Windows 10. I copied the user profile and migrated most important setting/data to the new Inspiron laptop. A affordable 15" device with SSD, 8GB ram and a touchscreen....
Thin-Client: Dell Wyse ThinOS WNOS.ini for RDS Broker

Posted by Ivan
/ January 11, 2019 / Leave a comment

The following configuration will connect to the RDS broker URL, use the specified collection and connect automatically fullscreen. In the past weeks I've run into this issue that VDI RDS Broker configuration didn't connect full screen once logged in. I am using the WNOS.ini file in combination with MAC address INI to configure my thin-client connecting to a highly available RDS Broker infrastructure (Windows Server 2016 with PaaS Azure SQL...
App-V: Office 365 Pro Plus and SAP EPM COM Add-in loading issue

Posted by Ivan
/ September 4, 2018 / 1 Comment

In the past months I have been working and supporting building a Windows 10 1709 image, updating core applications and upgrading App-V software packages. The client migrations are now ongoing where several issues have pop-up during the switch from Windows 7 to Windows 10. New Office 365 Pro Plus installation is there and the need for App-V integration. From Windows 10 (1703 if I am correct) the App-V client is...
Office 365: Exchange Hybrid issue with Windows Security of Outlook 2016

Posted by Ivan
/ March 28, 2018 / 2 Comments

Outlook prompts for password when accessing migrated Exchange Online resource. The on-premise mailbox has been migrated to Exchange Online and the user opening the calendar to see free/busy and planned meetings is sitting on-premise Exchange server. Windows Security – Microsoft Outlook connecting to … When analyzing the https network flow with Fiddler or other tools you will see when opening the calendar from address book or using the cached entry...