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  • Service Now Change Request Creation and Updating with PowerShell

    Service Now Change Request Creation and Updating with PowerShell

    I finally am getting around to posing the addition to my previous blog post for Creating and updating Service Now Incidents. Same as before you need to know your Sys_ID’s of the objects you are going to use. Like your user account, The assignment group and anyone else you are going to need to add Read more

  • Using the ServiceNow Rest API Explorer

    Using the ServiceNow Rest API Explorer

    A month or so ago I was introduced into the world of the ServiceNow Rest API explorer. It was a rough into at best. A little backstory always helps. I am still working on a project to automate most of my daily tasks in the VDI world. The need to create Incidents and Change tickets Read more

  • Service Now Incident Creation and Updating with PowerShell

    Service Now Incident Creation and Updating with PowerShell

    For those of you that are cursed or blessed by the use of ServiceNow, I have been working on a project to automate a ton of my day to day job. Part of this automation of the service Incidents. I spent a few painful hours messing around with the ServiceNow rest API’s. Keep in mind Read more

  • Why automate day to day tasks VDI or other?

    Why automate day to day tasks VDI or other?

    How many of you have never thought about automating any of the VDI tasks? Or think your environment is too small to automate? Or the best one of them all….I don’t have time to automate! Slap….Wake up and smell the PowerCLI! At one point in time, I believed my environment was too small and I Read more

  • VMworld Announcement of AppDefense

    I was completely immersed when they announced AppDefense. I had to dig and find out some more. This is an over view of what I have found thus far. AppDefense is designed to protect your virtual and cloud based applications. Traditional security is Network related. In the past VMware infrastructure, you had to run NSX Read more

  • The Dirty Taboo topic of IT Debt! The Micro Series…. Maybe if I don’t see a Squirrel!

    The Dirty Taboo topic of IT Debt! The Micro Series…. Maybe if I don’t see a Squirrel!

    Why is it no one wants to talk about IT debt? Are they scared of saying hey I need help? Do they not have a clue that they are in debt? Maybe they feel like its job security? Maybe they are the ones putting you into debt? Over the years I managed to put myself Read more

  • How does all this IT infrastructure stuff actually work?

    How does all this IT infrastructure stuff actually work?

    So looking at this from a high level a day to day job of a admin is basically to keep the lights on and things moving forward. We put in a huge amount of time and effort in making sure what we are doing is done to a level we expect. But for some reason Read more

  • Quick AppVolumes 2.11 Security Hardening!

    Today companys are growing more and more security aware and paying more attention to the fine details, there is a growing demand for hardening applications. On that journey i had noticed that AppVolumes web console uses HTTP and HTTPs for authentication. So if you choose you can log into AppVolumes manager on HTTP. There is no Read more

  • My thoughts on Surface Pro 4

    My thoughts on Surface Pro 4

    After been given some time with the Surface, I have got a chance to know it a bit. First off I would like to say thank you to those of you that convinced me that I should migrate to the Surface world. This thing is great. It’s a perfect format for what most people need. Read more

  • Building a new Media Server with Plex

    Building a new Media Server with Plex

    After moving into a new house this last May I have been on a major upgrade path, mainly because I went from dual satellite links at 10mb down and 1mb down, with a 25GB cap on each link to now having 45MB. This allows more internet activity at my house now that I have 45mb and no Read more