Hi there! Welcome to my blog. My name is Ivan. I am a Dutch IT Professional working as Principal IT Consultant. Featured
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1 million (1000000) visits since 17 Jan 2008 on Networknet.nl
When I started my personal blog I could never imagine it would reach 1.000.000 visitors. Last week it did. Over the years my Networknet.nl blog become popular, and on many searches my blog is displayed as first hit on the list. This helped me to generate the traffic and visits. I am happy to see many of you leave comments, more people keep coming to my blog and links are...
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Tools: jc and jq to parse and filter JSON output
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
