Pat McNamara I first came across Pat McNamara on the Joe Rogan Podcast Episode #1262 in March 2019. He is an interesting cat. He spent 22 years in the US Army mostly in Special Operations units. He works out like an animal everyday. He is an expert marksman. He could kill you with his bare hands. But he also doesn’t…
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How to increase confidence – Jocko Willink
Who couldn’t do with a confidence boost? Take 3 and a half minutes of your day and watch Jocko give his advice on how to increase your confidence.
Time Restricted Feeding – Dr Rhonda Patrick
In this video Dr Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Satchin Panda discuss what ‘Time Restricted Feeding’ is and the benefits it has for the body. The video goes for 90 minutes but there is some great information in there. If you don’t have the time to watch the video, check out my notes below What is the circadian clock? Every…
Prioritise & Execute
We all know what its like trying to deal with that ever growing list of tasks. You get stressed just looking at the tasks and spend more time worrying about the list then actually working and dealing with any of the tasks. The following is some sound advice taken from the book ‘Extreme Ownership’ “Even the most competent of leaders…
How to (Easily) backup MS SQL Databases using Powershell
Backing up SQL databases with Powershell is quite useful and is probably easier than you think. This can be used in situations where you only have the SQL Server Express edition installed and can’t manage backups through the SQL Management Studio, or if you just want to do some one off backups Install SQLServer Powershell module 1. Open a Powershell…
5.4.14 Hop count exceeded – possible mail loop ATTR34
Issue: We recently configured our Exchange Hybrid setup and were experiencing this error when sending mail from our mailboxes migrated to Exchange Online to the mailboxes still on Premise that had the alias: @ourdomain.mail.onmicrosoft.com (On Premise Mailboxes had this alias setup in preparation for migrating to Exchange Online). Cause: We use Mimecast for our email filtering. The mail loop was…
How To Export Spiceworks Reports to HTML Using Powershell
Introduction This allows you to query the Spiceworks database and save the results as a HTML report. It uses the PSSQLite Powerhsell module and then the ‘ConvertTo-HTML’ command to output it to HTML. Step 1: Create your SQL Query It is best to run your test query’s against a copy of your Spiceworks database, not your live database. There are…
Powershell: Automating Exiting Users
Introduction I have being playing around with Powershell a lot more lately and trying to learn and utilise it as much as possible. One of the repetitive tasks we deal with is when a student exits the school. There are a number of steps in AD that have to be undertaken each time a student leaves. These include: Disable the…
1. AZ-104 Study Guide
This is an excellent resource put together by Jordi Koenderink: AZ-104 Official Course Study Guide
1. Azure Concepts
Overview of Azure Services The Core Services of Azure: Virtual Machines Virtual Networking Storage Almost every service in Azure is built on one or more of these. Azure VM and APP Services What is a Virtual Machine? (assuming if you are studying this course you already know what a virtual machine is…) Windows or Linux Can be accessed using RDP…