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# I.T. Giffen.cloud

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- [What's your MAC?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2025/12/28/whats-your-mac/) - Microsoft | You find yourself talking to your network administrator and they need to know what your Windows machine MAC address is. Your device might be blocked, or they are helping you troubleshoot some layer 1 issue... How do you quickly find, fetch, and retrieve your MAC address? I'm sure some of you would dive into your
- [Windows ICACLS and Permission Inheritance](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2025/11/24/windows-icacls-and-permission-inheritance/) - Microsoft | When NTFS permissions get out of sync, one common culprit is broken inheritance. A folder (or file) has been set to “stop inheriting permissions” and now behaves differently from the rest of the tree. Last week I had to reset the inheritance on a folder and realized that it would be the perfect topic to
- [Nutanix Cheat Sheet 2025](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2025/10/29/nutanix-cheat-sheet-2025/) - Nutanix | It's been four years now since I last compiled some helpful and commonly used commands into the original version of my Nutanix Cheatsheet. Since I recently found myself "playing" with some Nutanix again, I figured it was time to update my cheat sheet. This cheat sheet compiles what I consider to be essential Nutanix CLI
- [Emptying a File Without Deleting it](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/07/07/emptying-a-file-without-deleting-it/) - Amazon Linux | Working in IT, there will be a day when you will need to purge a file on one of your systems. As an administrator, managing file sizes and content is crucial for maintaining the system performance and stability you require. Regardless of what you call it - emptying, clearing, wiping, purging; There are various reasons
- [Travel Related Prompts](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/05/17/travel-related-prompts/) - LLMs-GPTs | ChatGPT and LLMs can be great resources for helping plan your next trip. These are some prompts that I have found and have used when planning trips, whether it's looking for new ways to view stuff in my town, planning a road trips, or looking for tourist idea for an upcoming vacation. Note: These prompts
- [Learning about ChatGPT4All](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/05/20/learning-about-chatgpr4all/) - LLMs-GPTs | So a coworker turned me onto this application called ChatGPT4All. I have to say, it's a pretty neat concept. I really enjoy the idea of being able to run my own LLM locally on own hardware. Introduction to GPTs and LLMs In the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), models that process
- [Language Related Prompts](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/05/18/language-ralated-prompts/) - LLMs-GPTs | Some useful prompts I have found and have used to help understand and learn a new language by using ChatGPT and LLMs. Note: These prompts are just starting points... What worked for me probably will not be exactly what you need. Please, modify and tweak these prompts to suite your purpose and to help you
- [Prompt Hacks](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/05/16/prompt-hacks/) - LLMs-GPTs | Just a list of some hacks I have found and have used when engineering my questions and output on ChatGPT and other LLMs. Note: These prompts are just starting points... What worked for me probably will not be exactly what you need. Please, modify and tweak these prompts to suite your purpose and to help
- [Microsoft ESI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2024/04/03/microsoft-esi/) - Microsoft | What is Microsoft ESI? Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative (ESI) is a program designed to provide organizations with comprehensive learning paths and resources to upskill their employees in various Microsoft technologies. The initiative is particularly focused on Microsoft’s cloud solutions, including Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365, among others. Here's a detailed breakdown of why Microsoft
- [What are some problems that NiFi solves?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2023/01/10/what-are-some-problems-that-nifi-solves/) - NiFi | Apache NiFi has been used to solve a wide variety of data integration and data management problems, some of which include: Data Ingestion: NiFi can be used to collect, acquire and ingest data from a wide variety of sources, such as log files, social media feeds, sensor data, and databases, among others. It supports a
- [What is NiFi?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2023/01/09/what-is-nifi/) - NiFi | Apache NiFi is an open-source data integration and data flow tool that helps users to move, process, and manage data between different systems. It provides an easy-to-use, web-based interface for designing data flows, and it can be used to collect, route, transform, and process data in real time. In advanced terms, NiFi is a data
- [UDM FaceTime Issues](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/28/udm-facetime-issues/) - Apple | I have a habit, for better or worse, of spending [possibly too much] time on Reddit. It's so easy to get lost scrolling through articles and comments on just about every topic. I've recently started to follow the r/Ubiquiti sub-reddit and this was something that I found there. Some people report having issues using Apple's
- [Stop the Ads @ Home - Pi-Hole](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/30/stop-the-ads-home-pi-hole/) - DNS | Advertising, love it or hate it, truly drives the internet. It is scary the amount of data companies skim about you from the ads that get served to and what you click onto. But with the right tools, you can do a lot to protect your privacy. One of the best thing you can do
- [Installing Pi-Hole](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/05/installing-pi-hole/) - DNS | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole Installing Pi-Hole is really simple. In fact it only takes entering one line to setup. curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash By running the above command essentially piping the curl command to bash, the RPi will automatically download and run PiVPN. A cautionary note about piping curl to
- [DuckDNS on UDM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/26/duckdns-on-udm/) - DNS | Updated on 4/09/2022: There was a change in the way the DuckDNS settings get entered in the UDM. I have set up my Ubiquiti Dream Machine (UDM) and I am loving it. I'm diving into all of the settings that I can configure on my home network and one of the first things I'm setting
- [DNS Tools](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/12/02/dns-tools/) - DNS | Here are a few handy sites to help with DNS-related things... IP Chicken - Check your IP addressWhatsMyIP - Another check your IP address DuckDNS - free dynamic DNS service DNS Traveral Checker - detailed DNS propagationWhatsMyDNS - Check your DNS propagationDNSmap - Another global DNS propagation tool MXToolbox - "swiss army knife" of DNS
- [Install AdGuard-Home on RaspberryPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/05/04/install-adguard-home-on-raspberrypi/) - DNS | I've used Pi-Hole for longer than I can remember, so it's time to test drive another solution, AdGuard Home, to see how it compares on my network. To start, as the title suggests you'll need a RaspberryPi. While not required, I recommend starting with a new fresh image of the RaspbianOS on it. The next
- [Enabling SSH on Raspberry Pi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/05/enabling-ssh-on-raspberry-pi/) - Linux | Raspbian ships with the SSH server disabled by default. Which is an excellent security baseline. However if you want to be able to remotely connect to your RPi, you're going to need to enable it. Thankfully, it can be manually enabled from the desktop very easily. Note: When enabling SSH on a Pi, or any
- [Installing PiVPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/07/installing-pivpn/) - Linux | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole Part 3: Install PiVPN Part 4: Create a Full-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 5: Create a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 6: Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device Part 7: Remove PiVPN user/client So I already have PiHole installed at home and it works great to block ads at
- [Home VPN with a Raspberry Pi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/07/home-vpn-with-a-raspberry-pi/) - Linux | VPN actually stands for virtual private network. What that means is that when you connect to a VPN, you are essentially creating a secure encrypted tunnel from your device to the network on the other side. A VPN prevents “snooping eyes” from seeing the actual network traffic that crosses the wire, meaning that you only
- [Creating a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/creating-a-split-tunnel-user-in-pivpn/) - Linux | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole (optional, but highly encouraged) Part 3: Install PiVPN Part 4: Create a Full-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 5: Create a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 6: Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device Part 7: Remove PiVPN user/client Okay. So we've gone over creating users. In doing so we've gone over
- [Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/05/setup-pivpn-endpoint-device/) - Linux | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole Part 3: Install PiVPN Part 4: Add users to PiVPN Part 5: Create a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 6: Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device Part 7: Remove PiVPN user/client So PiVPN is setup. We've added the user/client into PiVPN. Now we need to setup the endpoint so
- [Remove PiVPN user/client](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/remove-pivpn-user-client/) - Linux | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole (optional, but highly encouraged) Part 3: Install PiVPN Part 4: Create a Full-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 5: Create a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 6: Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device Part 7: Remove PiVPN user/client To remove a user/client it’s easy. Type the following command. pivpn remove You’ll
- [Create a Full tunnel user in PiVPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/06/create-a-full-tunnel-user-in-pivpn/) - Linux | Part 1: Enable SSH Part 2: Install Pi-Hole Part 3: Install PiVPN Part 4: Create a Full tunnel user in PiVPN Part 5: Create a Split-tunnel user in PiVPN Part 6: Setup PiVPN Endpoint Device Part 7: Remove PiVPN user/client Typing "pivpn" will show you all of the available options of PiVPN. Now that PiVPN
- [Using a personalized domain with O365 Family](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/11/19/using-personalized-domain-with-o365-family/) - Microsoft | I want to start this post with the mention that Microsoft is going to be sunsetting this feature at the end of November 2023. So if this is something you are interested in... Hurry up as the opportunity is going away very soon. As per the Microsoft Support page (link): “Starting November 30, 2023, Microsoft
- [Helium Token Related Links](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/11/15/helium-token-related-links/) - Crypto-Things | Just wanted to bookmark a few links to resources that are related to Helium, specifically Helium miners. Helium Explorer - https://explorer.helium.com/ Helium Explorer is a Block Explorer and Analytics Platform for Helium HotSpotty - https://app.hotspotty.net/hotspots/ A mapping tool that helps you visualize the miners on a map and it pulls up some statistics on the miner
- [Folding@Home](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/26/folding-at-home/) - Containers | About Folding@Home Howto: Folding@Home - Linux Howto: Folding@Home - VMware Fling (OVA) Howto: Folding@Home - Windows The corona virus and COVID-19 are at the top of everyone's mind right now. The whole world is trying to deal with this pandemic. States are issuing stay-at-home orders and just about every company is trying to figure out
- [Install Docker CE on Ubuntu](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/07/24/install-docker-ce-on-ubuntu/) - Containers | So how does someone install Docker on Ubuntu? Let me show you... We're starting off with a freshly installed Ubuntu 20.04 virtual machine that has been updated but has not had anything additional added to it yet. We will start with adding some packages that are prerequisites for using the 'apt' commands over HTTPS and
- [Ham Radio](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/02/08/ham-radio-quick-links/) - Ham Radio | Check out my amateur radio blog at Radio.Giffen.cloud
- [Microsoft | Learn](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/09/26/microsoft-learn/) - Microsoft | I decided to write a little bit about the Microsoft Learn portal. We all know that Microsoft is one (if not the) standard for many business applications and cloud offerings. They also offer certifications on their products from basic fundamentals all the way up to the expert level. But how do you learn, practice, and
- [Nutanix Cheat Sheet](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/11/01/nutanix-cheat-sheet/) - Nutanix | Hopefully, this helps you as much as it helps me. This is by no means a comprehensive list. It's just a place for me to jot down the various commands I use as I get to know Nutanix more intimately. Run all NCC Health Checks ncc health_checks run_all Shutdown CVM cvm_shutdown -P now Check status
- [Docker Commands Cheat Sheet](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/07/26/docker-commands-cheat-sheet/) - Containers | run container docker run run container and drop to shell docker run -it docker run --interactive --tty run container in background docker run -d container restart setings docker run --restart (always|no|on-failure[:maxretries]|unless-stopped) remove container when exited docker run --rm view containers running docker container ls docker container ls -a start container docker start stop container docker
- [How to Setup Fail2Ban on RPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/how-to-setup-fail2ban-on-rpi/) - Linux | Fail2Ban is an amazing piece of software when it comes to security and protecting your RPi. Even more so if your RPi is exposed to, or publicly accessible on, the Internet. Fail2Ban continually monitors your system's log files and watches for malicious connections, proactively blocking them. Fail2Ban becomes an active, almost real-time, learning form of
- [How to setup WiFi on headless RPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/10/how-to-setup-wifi-on-headless-rpi/) - Linux | These instructions are straight from the RPi documentation (which can be found here). If you do not use a monitor or keyboard to run your Pi (known as headless), but you still need to do some wireless setup, there is a facility to enable wireless networking and SSH when creating a image. Once an image is
- [Backing up your RPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/12/backing-up-your-rpi/) - Backups | Like any other computer system, the data running on your RPi is only as good as it's last backup. Heck, have you ever even backed-up your RPi since you got it up and running? Well let me show you how to get backed-up so that you can get back up in the event that you
- [Restoring your RPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/12/restoring-your-rpi/) - Backups | As I've said before, the data running on your RPi is only as good as it's last backup. You have already backed up your RPi, right? This article is going to cover how to restore the backup image of your RPi with Windows. While can also restore it using Linux or MacOS, I'm not going
- [Network (RPi) Printer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/18/network-rpi-printer/) - Linux | Using a simple RPi we can turn an otherwise normal USB printer into a network printer. Making it easier to print from anywhere in your house, and using any computer in your house. Literally breathing a bit more life into your "old" printer that you were just considering tossing away. We'll take advantage of the
- [How to Setup ZRAM on RPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/how-to-setup-zram-on-rpi/) - Linux | After posting my article on Reddit about setting up Pi-Hole and PiVPN, I learned about ZRAM from fellow redditor u/Bubbagump210. I'm basing this article off of his post. Zram allows one to create compressed RAM drives - including swap drives. So, what we will be going over below is running a swap drive under ZRAM.
- [RDP on Raspberry Pi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/24/rdp-on-raspberry-pi/) - Linux | If you are like me, the computers around my house are predominately Windows based. Which is fine until you try to remotely connect to the desktop of your RPi. The Raspbian OS just doesn't work MS's Remote Desktop Protocol out of the box. It can though, and all it takes a few is a few
- [Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Buster](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/12/upgrade-raspbian-stretch-to-buster/) - Linux | These instructions are taken from the Raspberry Pi Blog. As with all major version changes, it is my recommendation to download a new clean image and start fresh with a clean system. (Raspbian Download page)I don't know what changes people have made to their system, and so have no idea what may break when you
- [Install Docker CE on Amazon Linux 2](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/07/24/install-docker-cd-on-amazon-linux-2/) - AWS | Here is how to install docker and docker-compose on the (AWS) Amazon Linux 2 OS running on either an EC2 or Lightsail instance. Let's begin by opening a console or SSH session to your EC2 or Lightsail instance. You can do this from within your AWS portal or an SSH tool like Putty. The actual
- [Install Docker CE on CentOS 9 Stream](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/07/09/install-docker-ce-on-centos-9-stream/) - CentOS | Docker is an operating system virtualization tool that allows us to run applications as containers. In simplest terms, that means you are virtualizing only the application, and not creating an entire virtual machine as you would traditionally do in hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V, or Nutanix. Okay, that's cool... How do we install Docker so we
- [Install Git on CentOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/07/10/install-git-on-centos/) - CentOS | Okay, it's time to install Git so you can play with some pull and merge requests for some projects you are working on. This set of instructions should work on your system regardless if you are running CentOS 7, 8, or 9. The first thing to do is elevate... sudo su Then update your system.
- [Was the file downloaded?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/05/08/was-the-file-downloaded/) - Microsoft | If you're ever tracking down where a suspicious came from, it can be hard to determine if it was downloaded off of the "dirty" internet, or if someone actually created the file locally on the machine. Well if you know how to check the file's alternative data stream, it actually becomes pretty easy to determine
- [Enable/Disable Multiple RDP Sessions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/05/30/enable-disable-multiple-rdp-sessions/) - Microsoft | So the caveat to this article is that this is specifically for Windows Servers. If you're trying to enable multiple RDP sessions on Windows 10 or 11, you'll need to do some further googling to find out how to do that - as this alone won't be enough. Enable Multiple RDP Sessions Log into the
- [Disable IP autoconfiguration](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/05/26/disable-ip-autoconfiguration/) - Microsoft | I ran into this last week when I was helping someone "fix" their server. They couldn't reach, or ping, their host, and when running an "ipconfig /all" command it was returning that the machine's IP was 'duplicate'. Worth Noting: So sometimes when a server reports that its' IP is a 'duplicate' it can be a
- [Search GPO Settings](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/05/02/search-gpo-settings/) - Microsoft | So if you know anything about managing Windows systems then you know about GPOs. In my honest opinion, GPOs are one of the greatest tools available in Windows. GPOs let you administratively manage all aspects of your computers. You can literally set about 99.9999% of any settings you ever wanted to configure on a computer.
- [Changing Your Password from an RDP Session](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/02/24/changing-your-password-from-an-rdp-session/) - Microsoft | So here's the scenario, you've RDP-ed into a server and you want to change your password. You try to hit CRTL+ATL+DEL but instead of it getting sent to the remote computer, it opens on your local machine. Blah! That is not what we want... How do we get to a place where we can change
- [NextCloud stuck in Maintenance Mode](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/24/nextcloud-stuck-in-maintenance-mode/) - NextCloud | I recently updated my home install of NextCloud right before I went to bed, and when I checked it the next day it was stuck in maintenance mode. Ugh... Thankfully it is easy enough to fix, but you will have to log onto the server to run an occ command from the command line. The
- [Install ClamAV on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/20/install-clamav-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | Here is how to add the open source antivirus tool ClamAV to the CentOS machine and configure it automatically run a virus scan on newly uploaded files. ClamAV detects all forms of malware including Trojan horses, viruses, and worms, and it operates on all major file types including Windows, Linux, and Mac files, compressed files,
- [Install PHP 8.1 on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/12/install-php-81-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | To install PHP 8, you will need to add the EPEL and Remi repositories to your machine. yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm --import http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/eprl/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm rpm --import https://rpms.remirepo.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi You can verify the repositories were added by using the command below to look for the "php8" packages are there. sudo yum list php
- [Install PHP 8.0 on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/12/install-php-80-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | To install PHP 8, you will need to add the EPEL and Remi repositories to your machine. yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm --import http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/eprl/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 yum -y install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm rpm --import https://rpms.remirepo.net/RPM-GPG-KEY-remi You can verify the repositories were added by using the command below to look for the "php8" packages are there. sudo yum list php
- [Install MariaDB on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/12/install-mariadb-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | Add the MariaDB repository to your machine sudo cat
- [Install Apache on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/11/install-apache-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | Install Apache on your machine. sudo yum -y install httpd mod_ssl Start Apache and then enable the Apache service at boot. sudo systemctl start httpd sudo systemctl enable httpd
- [Installing NextCloud on CentOS 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/11/installing-nextcloud-on-centos-7/) - CentOS | So I'm going to walk thru installing Nextcloud on CentOS 7. Your mileage will vary if you attempt to use this as a guide to install NextCloud on CentOS 8 (which is EOL) or CentOS Stream 8/9 as it is not intended for those versions of CentOS. Nextcloud is an open-source self-hosted sync and file
- [Reset NextCloud administrator password](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/23/reset-nextcloud-administrator-password/) - NextCloud | If you ever forget your admin password, hopefully, you have someone else who is an administrator that can reset it for you. If that is not an option, then the worst-case scenario is that you can log into the server that is hosting your NextCloud and reset the password via the command line with the
- [Upgrade CentOS 7 to CentOS 8](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/09/upgrade-centos-7-to-centos-8/) - CentOS | Warning: CentOS 8 has reached End of Life (EOL) and is no longer supported. You should really consider moving to a supported OS such as CentOS 8 Stream. I was looking at some virtual machines earlier today and I realized that they were not running the most current version of CentOS. Since I am going
- [Azure Serial Console](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/21/azure-serial-console/) - Azure | The Azure Serial console can be disabled and re-enabled for an entire subscription by using the following commands in the Azure CLI. To get the current status of the serial console in your subscripton use the following command: $subscriptionId=$(az account show --output=json | jq -r .id) az resource show --ids "/subscriptions/$subscriptionId/providers/Microsoft.SerialConsole/consoleServices/default" --output=json --api-version="2018-05-01" | jq
- [Upgrade CentOS 8 to CentOS 8 Stream](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/10/upgrade-centos-8-to-centos-8-stream/) - CentOS | With CentOS 8 now EOL, it is officially time to upgrade CentOS 8 virtual machines to CentOS 8 Stream. The good news is that it is even quicker and easier than the upgrade from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 was. First things first... Take a backup of your virtual machine, or at least a snapshot
- [Bitnami Start or Stop Services](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/04/01/bitnami-start-or-stop-services/) - Bitnami | I found a great Bitnami Docs KB article describing how to check the status of, and stop/start/restart the services running on your Bitnami instance. Each Bitnami stack includes a control script that lets you easily check the status of, stop, start and restart services. These are the commands that you would use. If you use
- [ESXi Access to resource settings on the host is restricted](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/03/31/esxi-access-to-resource-settings-on-the-host-is-restricted/) - ESXi | I was trying to upload an ova file thru vCenter when I got an error message about a controller type in this particular ova. From prior troubleshooting, I knew that the workaround was to just log directly onto a host and upload the ova directly to the host. I know I had done this before
- [Monitor Desk Mount](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/03/27/monitor-desk-mount/) - Gadgets | After getting a new desk you need to get some hardware to finish dialing it in how you want. For me, after getting a new desk at home, one of those things that I needed was a way to mount my monitor. I spent more hours reading through product reviews than I'd like to admit,
- [vMotion Greyed Out](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/02/02/vmotion-greyed-out/) - vCenter | Okay... This was a first for me. I was in VCSA and went to vMotion a VM, a totally normal task. However, upon clicking on the VM and trying to run the vMotion, it option was greyed out. WHAT THE HECK!?! Well, thankfully it ended up being a simple fix. Apparently, this can happen if
- [Nutanix LCM - Insufficient space on ESXi scratch disk](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/01/28/nutanix-lcm-insufficient-space-on-esxi-scratch-disk/) - ESXi | I was running into an issue where I could not run the Nutanix LCM Inventory action on a cluster because the scratch disk on an ESXi host was too small. And it seems reasonable to assume that if you're reading this article, then you too probably have encountered an with the pre-check "test_esxi_scratch_space". I've seen
- [Reset password on locked-out Domain Admin](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2022/01/05/reset-password-on-locked-out-domain-admin/) - Microsoft | Sometimes things happen and a password gets forgotten or lost, or in the worst case it wasn't updated in your password management tool after it was changed. We've likely all had to bug another admin to reset our password for one system or another. It happens. But what happens if you are the lone Domain
- [Open and Extract .tar files on Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/12/30/open-and-extract-tar-files-on-windows/) - Microsoft | What I'm about to say might be a surprise to you... But you don't need to install any sort of 3rd party software (like 7zip or WinZip) to extract tarball files on WIndows. Windows 10 actually has the functionality built-in. I know, I was just as surprised to learn about it as you are. From
- [VMware PVSCSI on a new Windows install](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/01/01/vmware-pvscsi-on-a-new-windows-install/) - ESXi | If you haven't already upgraded your Windows servers to Windows 2019, then you will probably be doing so soon enough. That means that it's time to review the steps you take in building out your virtual machines (VMs). Are you running your VMs from a SAN? Then during this refresh, you should really take the
- [Software Restriction by GPO](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/01/block-software-by-gpo/) - Windows 10 | Using GPOs is a great way to allow or block programs from running on your corporate network. Just be careful and limit yourself to only blocking the applications which you actually have a need to block. Don't go too crazy locking down programs Microsoft first made the introduction of "Software Restriction Policies" in Windows Server
- [HTTPS and SSL, options?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/12/https-and-ssl-options/) - AWS | In today's day and age, there is no reason why your website should not be serving up it's content securely. Honestly, the only acceptable reason is if you have just spun up your website and you are still configuring it. As far as obtaining an SSL certificate to make your site secure, you have two
- [O365 MFA - "Office Phone"](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/28/o365-mfa-office-phone/) - Microsoft | Multi-factor authentication is something that you should have enabled in your Azure or Office 365 tenant. It's going to solve at least 90% of your problems about worrying if someone is going to 'hack' into your organization. That said, it can provide a few headaches of it's own. When your user is choosing their methods
- [Bitnami - Disabling TLS v1.0 & v1.1](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/30/bitnami-disabling-tls-v1-0-v1-1/) - AWS | I was surprised when I ran the Qualys SSL Labs scan against my website that I got a lower score than I expected. The SSL Labs scan is a FREE deep analysis of the SSL configuration of your public facing website, that returns a score and grade of your server. It also provides some suggestions
- [Migrating NPS Configuration](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/23/migrating-nps-configuration/) - Microsoft | I recently had to migrate some services from an old Windows 2008 server to Windows 2016. One of those services was a Network Policy Server (NPS) service, which is used by RADIUS to authenticate users into some more secure resources. I was kind of dreading the task, as I had no recollection of how I
- [Enabling SSH on Cisco iOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/21/enabling-ssh-on-cisco-ios/) - Cisco | While telnet and SSH are both allowed types of connections to Cisco gear, there is honestly no reason why you should be using telnet in today's world. You should be using SSH for accessing all of your network devices. In very simplistic terms [and while the technologies are different], you can almost think of it
- [Adding a wildcard SSL certificate to your WordPress site](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/11/13/adding-wildcard-ssl-certificate-to-wordpress/) - AWS | So this one threw me for a little bit of a loop when I was first trying to figure it out, even though it shouldn't have. I was just overthinking it. There was plenty of documentation out there for adding a certificate to a single site, but there is not much when it comes to
- [Nutanix services](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/11/26/nutanix-services/) - Nutanix | Nutanix relies on the following services to run... Acropolis Genesis Zookeeper Zeus Medusa Cassandra Stargate Curator Acropolis An Acropolis follower runs on every CVM with an elected Acropolis leader. The Acropolis follower is responsible for statistic collection and publishing and provides VNC proxy capabilities. The Acropolis leader is responsible for stat collection and publishing, task
- [Wordpress tweaks](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/04/23/wordpress-tweaks/) - Bitnami | (Updated 12/6/2021) Here are a few tweaks that I have found and use on my WordPress installs to harden them and improve security. This post is mostly for my own benefit - for when I have to stand up a new server and can't recollect what I did to my current server/site.... That said, I
- [Restart Prism](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/08/03/restart-prism/) - Nutanix | You might have some problems with your Nutanix Prism someday and need to restart the Prism service without restarting your CVM or host or anything else. Whether it is super slow page loads, overall delay in the WebGUI, or some other problem. Thankfully you can safely restart the Prism service in a way that won't
- [Dell iDRAC RED007](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/10/15/dell-idrac-red007/) - Dell Hardware | So I was updating the iDRAC (version 8) firmware on some servers, and I kept getting stuck on an error. You're supposed to be able to upload a new firmware's .exe file and the iDRAC can do its thing to extract the firmware image and update itself... Well, that simply wasn't working for me. The
- [Nutanix password change](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/08/06/nutanix-password-change/) - Nutanix | If you leave the default passwords on your Nutanix cluster you'll start to see alerts in Prism that the default password is still in use. It will alert you about it for both the CVM and the physical hosts. This alert is very easy to clear by just updating the password. Here's how... To run
- [SCCM Client Actions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/06/09/sccm-client-actions/) - Microsoft | If you use SCCM or have ever had to mess with Configuration Manager on a computer that runs Software Center, then you have seen all of the client actions that you can run. That said, like most of us when we started using SCCM or Configuration Manager we knew we had to run some/all of
- [Home WiFi QR code](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/05/18/home-wifi-qr-code/) - Apple | So I happened across an article the other day which described how to do something that I thought was kind of cool. It walked you through how to create a QR code so that visitors to your house (or business) could simply use the camera in their smart phone to quickly and easily access your
- [Useful Software](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/11/12/useful-software/) - Software | Let us be honest, software is what ultimately drives IT. It is what allows us to perform duties and complete tasks. We use it everywhere from our smartphones, to our home PCs and office workstations. But there is a difference between good software, and useful software, as well as just plain bad software. I am
- [GitLab Certified Associate Certification](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/05/16/gitlan-certified-associate-cert/) - Training | I'll be honest; I've little experience using Git, or any other versioning software for that matter. I have had an interest in Git for a while now though. Mostly for keeping a personal code repo; scripts for working in the Azure and AWS clouds, PowerShell scripts for system administration tasks, and most recently to use
- [Owlcam Dashcam](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/04/23/owlcam-dashcam/) - Gadgets | My vehicle got broken into 3 times within a year. I was getting tired of going down to my car, and then feeling violated after realizing someone had broken into it. I was also getting tired of paying the deductible to get the car fixed after each break-in. I needed to find a solution! With
- [Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2021/04/23/cannot-open-the-outlook-window-invalid-xml/) - Microsoft | Microsoft Outlook has got to be one of the most common business applications that just about everyone uses. So when it fails to open, it can feel like the start of a bad day. One error message that I have encountered a few times now is the "Invalid XML" message when trying to launch Outlook.
- [Removing the Bitnami bannner image](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/11/removing-the-bitnami-bannner-image/) - AWS | On a new install of Wordpress on Bitnami, you'll have a small little banner image displayed in the lower right corner of your webpage. To remove it, you can find instructions in Bitnami's online documentation. https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/bitnami-remove-banner/ To remove the banner link you can complete these steps: Log in to into your server console using SSH
- [SCCM Device Collection from Excel](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/11/17/sccm-device-collection-from-excel/) - Creating a custom device collection in SCCM from Excel
- [My Ubiquiti Network](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/26/my-ubiquiti-network/) - Networking | Ubiquiti makes some interesting gear and they are quite well known for their disrupting the status quo by offering top-notch grade network and wifi devices. Their gear ranges from prosumer to enterprise-grade. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you go, it can become a bit of an expensive eco-system that you are buying
- [TEI_ASSIGNED](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/16/tei_assigned/) - Cisco | So I've had the unlucky experience of having to deal with the PRI connected to a T1 controller card on a Cisco 4321 Integrated Router that fails to come back up "online", EVERY time the router gets power cycled. Let me tell you... It is annoying! I don't even want to try to tell you
- [Export/Import Putty Sessions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/05/08/export-import-putty-sessions/) - Microsoft | If you're like me you probably use one machine heavily. You have all of the hosts and devices which you connect to regularly, saved in Putty. but what if you want to conveniently share all of those saved settings with a coworker, or back them up so you can restore them in the future to
- [RDS customizations](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/17/rds-customizations/) - Microsoft | This is a bit of a long post, so I apologize in advance... Sorry, but not sorry. There are a lot of things that you can customize in a RDS / RD Web Access deployment. I'm doing these edits, or customizations on a Windows Server 2019 deployment, they should [in theory] work though on RDS
- [Manually force an Azure AD Connect sync](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/10/manually-force-an-azure-ad-connect-sync/) - Microsoft | The Azure AD Connect tool has a default sync schedule to run every 30 minutes. However sometime you need changes you make to get sync-ed NOW! So from time-to-time it's necessary to manually force Azure AD Connect to run and sync your on-prem AD up to Azure AD. This can be done with PowerShell as
- [Finding the Startup Folder on Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/finding-the-startup-folder-on-windows/) - Microsoft | In recent years Microsoft has moved around where they "hide" the startup folder. That's the folder that gets used to launch applications that start automatically when the user logs in. It's not necessary hard to find, but it is well hidden. There's actually two places that startup folder lives. Each user has their own startup
- [Setup BGInfo on Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/09/setup-bginfo-on-windows/) - Windows 10 | BGinfo is a great utility/tool that I really like and I literally have on every server I deploy. It is totally customize-able and able to display whatever system information that you feel is important to you, right on the desktop background making it easy to see at a glance. It could be used to display
- [Howto: Folding@Home - VMware Fling](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/26/howto-fah-vmware-fling/) - PhotonOS | About Folding@Home Howto: Folding@Home - Linux Howto: Folding@Home - VMware Fling Howto: Folding@Home - Windows VMware is doing their part to help make it easy for folks to contribute to the Folding@Home (F@H) project. They have packaged together an appliance as an OVA file on VMware Flings that you can deploy on any of their
- [Howto: Folding@Home - Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/26/howto-foldinghome-windows/) - Windows 10 | About Folding@Home Howto: Folding@Home - Linux Howto: Folding@Home - VMware Fling (OVA) Howto: Folding@Home - Windows The Folding@Home (F@H) team has released v7 (currently v7.5.1) of their F@H software. It has a newer simpler graphical interface aimed at making it easier for people to install and contribute to the project. Here is how to make
- [Howto: Folding@Home - Linux](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/26/howto-foldinghome-linux/) - Linux | About Folding@Home Howto: Folding@Home - Linux Howto: Folding@Home - VMware Fling (OVA) Howto: Foldign@Home - Windows The Folding@Home (F@H) team has released v7 (currently v7.5.1) of their F@H software. It has a newer simpler graphical interface aimed at making it easier for people to install and contribute to the project. Here is how to make
- [Run Application as Different User](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/04/run-application-as-different-user/) - Windows 10 | Windows makes it incredibly easy to run an application or script as another user on your computer. I find that I most often use this to run administrative or domain tools, when I'm logged in as just a normal user. Method 1 This is the easiest method. While it took me a little while to
- [Pull Certificate from Digitally Signed Application](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/04/03/pull-certificate-from-digitally-signed-application/) - Microsoft | Most companies will use a certificate to sign their applications before they release their software to the world. This helps the user know to that the software they are running actually came from the software vendor, and hasn't been altered or changed by someone. Certificates are based on key pairs. There is a public key,
- [Fix Quick Access Links in Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/30/fix-quick-access-links-in-windows/) - Windows 10 | The Quick Access links is a feature in Windows that gives the user an easy way to access the folders which use frequently by pinning them to the top of the left pane in 'File Explorer'. Sometimes the file that stores the pinned items can get corrupted and thus you loose access to the Quick
- [Fix Temporary Profile issue in Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/27/fix-temporary-profile-issue-in-windows/) - Windows 10 | A bad user profile could happen to any one of your users. It could happen in Windows desktop or on a server. The user will log in and instead of their profile getting loaded, the OS decides it wants to load a temporary profile the the user. The user will a pop up message stating
- [Wordpress - Set Timezone](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/25/wordpress-set-timezone/) - WordPress | I had originally thought that by setting the timezone on a Bitnami server that Wordpress would then pull and use that time info. Oh, I was so wrong! It wasn't a bad exercise, as at least I'll be able to better read my logs in a more "timely" manner. LOL. But it turns out that
- [Bitnami - Set timezone](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/25/bitnami-set-timezone/) - AWS | Having the correct timezone configured on your machine can save you a lot of "math headaches" when you try to comb through the machine's event logs. It's a pretty easy thing to configure in the overall scope of all things, yet it is one that is often over looked, even by veteran users. Never fear
- [PhotonOS - Set timezone](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/25/photonos-set-timezone/) - Linux | PhotonOS is VMware's minimalist Linux based OS that has been heavily optimized for vSphere environments. Many of VMware's appliance and OVAs are based on this super light weight platform. The problem with appliances and OVAs, is that I have yet to find or launch one that is set to MY timezone by default. I guess
- [CUCM 10.5 - Updating VMtools](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/19/cucm-10-5-updating-vmtools/) - Cisco | Cisco Call Manager is an integral part of any company that runs it for all of their "voice" or telephony services. I'll be honest... I'm always a little afraid to console in and do stuff on a CUCM server because I don't feel like I know enough to quickly troubleshoot issues I might cause. However
- [Alias emails in O365 with hybird on-prem AD sync](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/12/alias-emails-in-o365-with-hybird-on-prem-ad-sync/) - Microsoft | If you use O365 in hybird mode, with your tenant sync-ed to your on-prem AD or Exchange server, then you will definitely run into an issue if you try to add an alias email address to a user. When you attempt to add an alias, or alternate, email in your Exchange Admin Center portal you
- [Hiding email address in O365 with hybird on-prem AD sync](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/13/hiding-email-address-in-o365-with-hybird-on-prem-ad-sync/) - Microsoft | So another gotcha when using O365 in hybird mode with on-prem sync is that you can't hide a user's email address [from address books and distribution lists] by using the Exhange Admin Portal. This is because the setting are made on-prem, and those defined values are simply pushing to your AAD tenant in Microsoft's Azure
- [MDT & Joining the Domain](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/03/04/mdt-joining-the-domain/) - Microsoft | An important part to any OS deployment is joining the computer to the domain. The whole point of Microsoft's Deployment Toolkit (MDT) is to automate as much of your deployment process as possible. So it is no surprise that MDT, when properly configured, can automagically join your newly deployed machine to the domain. It's actually
- [Server Manager - Orphaned RDS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/02/27/server-manager-orphaned-rds/) - Microsoft | So I've seen this a couple times and I always forget how to handle it, so hopefully writing this down will help me remember for next time... You are replacing some Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) with a newer server, and everything looks good-to-go. Back on your Remote Desktop Connection Broker (RDCB), you have Server
- [iDRAC Firmware & BIOS updates](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/02/21/idrac-firmware-bios-updates/) - Dell Hardware | Today I got to push some updates to some physical Dell servers. Instead of updating everything with a SmartBootable ISO, like i usually do, I used the servers' iDRAC to push only the individual updates these Dell FC630s needed. It saves some time which is ultimately what i was after. Head on over to the
- [MDT Screen Resolution Setting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/02/19/mdt-screen-resolution-setting/) - Microsoft | Johan Arwidmark is basically a guru in the world of Windows deployment. His blog (deploymentresearch.com) is a literal treasure trove of information for all things deployment related and it is where I found this tip. By editing your CustomSettings.ini file you can actually set the resolution values to be written to your unattend.xml file during
- [Window 2019 KMS key and VAMT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/02/13/window-2019-kms-key-and-vamt/) - Microsoft | Was beginning the introduction of Windows Server 2019 to a work environment and ran into some hurdles that were easily cleared, but want to share... To begin with, you need to have a Volume Licensing agreement with Microsoft. We did and so I jumped into the MS Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) portal to grab
- [UEFI, NTFS, and Bootable USB](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/02/14/uefi-ntfs-and-bootable-usb/) - Microsoft | When using Microsoft's MDT for deployment, sometimes you need to create a bootable USB to boot your machine into a LiteTouch deployment. Well Thanks to an application named Rufus, that could not be any simpler. Rufus is a utility that helps to format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks,
- [Importing an OS into MDT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/31/importing-an-os-into-mdt/) - Microsoft | MDT is a powerful tool but it really needs an operating system, to deploy or capture, if you really want to utilize it's full potential. Match that with Microsoft's release schedule of Windows and you will find yourself needing to import a new OS at least once year, if not more. Today we're going to
- [Migrating Print Server](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/24/migrating-print-server/) - Microsoft | With the end of support for Windows 2008, it was time to get those last few lingering services migrated to a new server. For me, one of those lingering tasks was to move our Print Server. This article will take a dive into what you need to do to migrate your Print Server to Windows
- [VMware Workstation can't run on Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/17/vmware-workstation-cant-run-on-windows/) - Microsoft | This was fun... Lets update Windows. Okay, done. Now lets open VMware Workstation and get back to work on that vm that I needed to do something on... VMware Workstation Pro can't run on Windows Check for an updated version of this app that runs on Windows. Compatibility Assistant What the!!! Umm, I'm not re-purchasing
- [Upgrade ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/16/upgrade-esxi-host-using-vcenter-update-manager/) - ESXi | VMware Update Manager (VUM) is a component of vCenter has matured a lot as product since its introduction. One of my favorite parts about it is that it is now baked into the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). Using it makes the process of updating and patching your hosts a simple centralized task. Here we are
- [IT Academy @ Stanly CC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2020/01/14/it-academy-stanly-cc/) - Training | Staying up to date and current in IT work and IT specializations is important. Things are always changing, and vendors are always introducing both new products and new paths to certification on their new products. If you are paying for your own training and certifications, one great resource you should check out is Stanly Community
- [File management - Cisco Flash](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/20/file-management-cisco-flash/) - Cisco | When working on Cisco devices, sometimes you have to delete files from the device. It's moreless the same on all Cisco devices. While there are other file systems available to you on your device (see first command listed), Cisco devices use "flash:" as their default file system. My examples will also use the default "flash:"
- [Office 365 - Winmail.dat](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/24/office-365-winmail-dat/) - Microsoft | After changing over from on-prem Exchange to O365, I had one user where the recipients of their emails would receive any attachment that was sent as the "dreaded" winmail.dat file instead of the .pdf or whatever file the user was actually sending. It was intermittent however, in that some users would get the actual file
- [MDT loading to cmd prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/18/mdt-loading-to-cmd-prompt/) - Microsoft | I was running an MDT LiteTouch deployment and the computer kept getting stuck at a command prompt after loading into MDT environment. Normally it should have launched right into the LiteTouch wizard, but for whatever reason, it just didn't want to go beyond this point on its own. I discovered two possible ways to circumvent
- [Cisco 3850 - Upgrading IOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/18/cisco-3850-upgrading-ios/) - Cisco | Upgrading the IOS version on your Cisco 3850 Catalyst switch is not something to be dreaded. In fact it should probably be rejoiced, as these days it most likely means you're also catching up on patching some vulnerabilities on your device. While the upgrade process is a little different on the 3850 then older generations
- [dracut-initqueue](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/13/dracut-initqueue/) - Linux | I was updating the firmware on some Dell FC630 servers when I came across this. I really thought that the server hung during the update and I was in for a long night of trying to fix it. Wait and see what the fix was... So using the DellEMC Repository Manager tool, I created a
- [ReFS allocation size](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/04/refs-allocation-size/) - Backups | I was reformatting a drive for some Veeam backups and was trying to recall what I had set the ReFS allocation unit size to when I initially setup the drive. Well, I could not remember to save my life. Luckily, with a little command line action, it's easy enough to find out what it was
- [Office 365 in-"stalled" at 51%](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/12/04/office-365-in-stalled-at-51/) - Microsoft | Out of an entire organization, we had one single machine that had issues installing O365, it would always get stuck at "51%". I even let tried letting it run for an entire weekend. The weird part was that it was a Win10 machine, and it was all up-to-date in terms of applying Windows Updates. The
- [Outlook O365 - minimized window issue](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/13/outlook-o365-minimized-window-issue/) - Microsoft | Had an issue today with a user using O365 Outlook. Whenever they tried to open a message in a new window, it open it as a minimized window, showing only dots, then the minimize/full screen/close window icons. I could use the "windows key + [ARROW]" buttons to move and essentially resize the window. But after
- [What was that GPO setting?](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/15/what-was-that-gpo-setting/) - Microsoft | There is a GPO setting for, literally, almost everything in Windows! Software companies provide all of these settings to administrators by means of Group Policy Administrative Templates, better known as ADMX templates or ADMX files. The domain admin imports these ADMX files, into their Active Directory schema, and can then manage an array of settings
- [My users rebooted the RDSH!](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/11/27/my-users-rebooted-the-rdsh/) - Microsoft | So when using RDS in Windows Server 2016 there is a funny issue that arises... Users can actually reboot your Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH). Yes, you read that right! Your users have the rights/permissions to reboot your host. If your like the dozens of forum posts i discovered, they will probably/definitely do it during
- [Easy Beginnings - website hosting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/10/04/easy-beginnings-website-hosting/) - AWS | The Internet has come a long ways since it's early beginnings. One of the things that have gone from "only a nerd could accomplish" to now "almost anyone" can do is pick a host and create their own content. Ages ago I started using a hosting company called DreamHost.com (referral link, save $50). They are
- [Getting your Comptia Security+ Certification](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/10/05/getting-your-security-certification/) - Comptia | A few months back I was encouraged by a friend to get my Comptia Security+ Certification. After about 4-6 weeks of studying, I took the exam and passed with a score comfortably exceeding what Comptia considers to be its' passing score. Woohoo! The current iteration of the Security+ exam is call the "SY0-501" exam, and
- [Veeam Backup O365](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/10/04/veeam-backup-o365/) - Backups | While I've spent more than a few years working with Veeam's Backup & Replication (VBR). But I'm pretty new to Veeam's Backup O365 (VBO365). I recently learning about some of their differences while setting up a new install of VBO365 in an environment which already used VBR. One is that unlike VBR, VBO365's repositories don't
- [Getting your VMWare Certified Associate - Digital Business Transformation Certification](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/2019/10/29/getting-your-vmware-certified-associate-digital-business-transformation-certification/) - VMWare | The name "VMWare Certified Associate - Digital Business Transformation Certification" is quite a mouthful. Thankfully it can more easily be referred to simply as the VCA-DBT. If you are just starting on your path of VMWare certifications, then this is a great one to begin with. Earning this certification validates and proves to other that

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- [Cloud](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/cloud/) - All things Cloud related
- [Azure](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/cloud/azure/) - All things Azure related
- [Nutanix](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/nutanix/) - All things Nutanix related
- [Ham Radio](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/ham-radio/) - All things Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) related
- [CentOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/linux/centos/) - Things related to CentOS Linux
- [NextCloud](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/software/nextcloud/) - Things related to NextCloud
- [Containers](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/containers/) - All things Container related
- [Docker](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/containers/docker/) - All things Docker related
- [Git](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/software/git/) - Things related to Git
- [Ubuntu](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/linux/ubuntu/) - Things related to Ubuntu
- [Amazon Linux](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/linux/amazon-linux/) - Things related to Amazon Linux, and Amazon Linux 2
- [RaspberryPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/hardware/raspberrypi/) - All things RasspberryPi (RPi) related
- [Microsoft](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/training/microsoft-learn/)
- [Crypto-Things](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/crypto-things/) - All things crypto-currency and block-chain related
- [Helium](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/crypto-things/helium/) - All things Helium token (HNT) related
- [DNS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/networking/dns/) - All things DNS related
- [VPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/networking/vpn/) - All things VPN related
- [Data](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/data/) - All things related to data.
- [NiFi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/data/nifi/) - All things NiFi related
- [LLMs-GPTs](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/llms-gpts/)
- [Prompt Engineering](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/llms-gpts/prompt-engineering/)
- [Windows 2022](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/microsoft/windows-2022/)
- [Windows 11](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/category/microsoft/windows-11/) - Things related to the Windows 11 Operating System

## Tags

- [Certification](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/certification/)
- [Comptia](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/comptia/)
- [Sec+](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/sec/)
- [Security+](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/security/)
- [Backups](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/backups/)
- [Veeam](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/veeam/)
- [VBO365](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vbo365/)
- [VBR](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vbr/)
- [Hosting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/hosting/)
- [Website](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/website/)
- [Webhosting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/webhosting/)
- [Dreamhost](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dreamhost/)
- [AWS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/aws/)
- [Lightsail](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/lightsail/)
- [One-click](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/one-click/)
- [VMWare](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vmware/)
- [VCA-DBT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vca-dbt/)
- [Cloud](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cloud/)
- [Microsoft](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/microsoft/)
- [Office](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/office/)
- [O365](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/o365/)
- [Outlook](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/outlook/)
- [SSL](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ssl/)
- [Privacy](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/privacy/)
- [Bitnami](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/bitnami/)
- [AD](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ad/)
- [GPO](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gpo/)
- [RDS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rds/)
- [Bug](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/bug/)
- [MFA](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mfa/)
- [AAD](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/aad/)
- [TLS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tls/)
- [ReFS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/refs/)
- [Windows](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows/)
- [dracut-initqueue](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dracut-initqueue/)
- [Dell](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dell/)
- [DellEMC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dellemc/)
- [SmartBootableISO](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/smartbootableiso/)
- [linux](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/linux/)
- [hardware](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/hardware/)
- [updates](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/updates/)
- [MDT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mdt/)
- [Deployment](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/deployment/)
- [Cisco](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cisco/)
- [IOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ios/)
- [IOS-XE](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ios-xe/)
- [Catalyst](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/catalyst/)
- [3850](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/3850/)
- [Switch](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/switch/)
- [Network](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/network/)
- [Upgrade](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/upgrade/)
- [File Management](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/file-management/)
- [Flash](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/flash/)
- [Training](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/training/)
- [Learning](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/learning/)
- [Classroom](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/classroom/)
- [Class](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/class/)
- [Stanly CC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/stanly-cc/)
- [IT Academy](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/it-academy/)
- [College](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/college/)
- [PoSH](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/posh/)
- [Exchange](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/exchange/)
- [vCenter](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vcenter/)
- [ESXi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/esxi/)
- [VUM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vum/)
- [Windows 10](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-10/)
- [Workstation](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/workstation/)
- [Compatibility](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/compatibility/)
- [Error](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/error/)
- [NPS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/nps/)
- [NPS migration](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/nps-migration/)
- [Powershell](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/powershell/)
- [Windows 2012](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-2012/)
- [Windows 2012R2](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-2012r2/)
- [Windows 2016](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-2016/)
- [Windows 2019](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-2019/)
- [Networking](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/networking/)
- [RADIUS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/radius/)
- [Windows Server](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-server/)
- [Print Services](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/print-services/)
- [Print Server](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/print-server/)
- [Printer Migration](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/printer-migration/)
- [Printers](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/printers/)
- [Printer Migration Wizard](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/printer-migration-wizard/)
- [RaspberryPi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/raspberrypi/)
- [rpi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rpi/)
- [PiHole](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pihole/)
- [DNS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dns/)
- [Home networking](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/home-networking/)
- [KMS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/kms/)
- [CSVLK](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/csvlk/)
- [GVLK](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gvlk/)
- [VAMT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vamt/)
- [Activation](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/activation/)
- [Bootable](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/bootable/)
- [USB](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/usb/)
- [UEFI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/uefi/)
- [NTFS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ntfs/)
- [Rufus](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rufus/)
- [Screen Resolution](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/screen-resolution/)
- [CustomSettings.ini](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/customsettings-ini/)
- [CS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cs/)
- [CustomSettings](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/customsettings/)
- [unattend.xml](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/unattend-xml/)
- [iDRAC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/idrac/)
- [Firmware](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/firmware/)
- [Firmware Updates](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/firmware-updates/)
- [Lifecycle](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/lifecycle/)
- [BIOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/bios/)
- [BIOS update](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/bios-update/)
- [remote management](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/remote-management/)
- [RDSH](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rdsh/)
- [RDCB](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rdcb/)
- [Oprhaned Server](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/oprhaned-server/)
- [Server Manager](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/server-manager/)
- [Domain Membership](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/domain-membership/)
- [Domain Join](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/domain-join/)
- [Hybird](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/hybird/)
- [Call Manager](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/call-manager/)
- [CUCM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cucm/)
- [VM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vm/)
- [VMtools](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vmtools/)
- [VMware Tools](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vmware-tools/)
- [PhotonOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/photonos/)
- [timezone](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/timezone/)
- [time](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/time/)
- [ntp](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ntp/)
- [clock](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/clock/)
- [Wordpress](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/wordpress/)
- [Folding@Home](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/foldinghome/)
- [F@H](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/fh/)
- [COVID-19](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/covid-19/)
- [Disease Research](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/disease-research/)
- [Distributed Computing](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/distributed-computing/)
- [Pandemic](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pandemic/)
- [Flings](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/flings/)
- [OVA](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ova/)
- [Fusion](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/fusion/)
- [vSphere](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vsphere/)
- [User](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/user/)
- [User Profile](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/user-profile/)
- [Profiles](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/profiles/)
- [File Explorer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/file-explorer/)
- [Quick Access](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/quick-access/)
- [Software Restriction](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/software-restriction/)
- [Software Restriction Policy](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/software-restriction-policy/)
- [Group Policy](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/group-policy/)
- [Certificate](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/certificate/)
- [Digitally Signed](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/digitally-signed/)
- [Signed Application](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/signed-application/)
- [Digitally Signed Application](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/digitally-signed-application/)
- [Run As](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/run-as/)
- [Run As Different User](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/run-as-different-user/)
- [Raspberry Pi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/raspberry-pi/)
- [PiVPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pivpn/)
- [VPN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vpn/)
- [Wireguard](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/wireguard/)
- [Setup](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/setup/)
- [Howto](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/howto/)
- [Configure](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/configure/)
- [SSH](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ssh/)
- [Pi-Hole](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pi-hole/)
- [Ad-blocker](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ad-blocker/)
- [Adblocker](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/adblocker/)
- [SCSI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/scsi/)
- [PVSCSI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pvscsi/)
- [Paravirtual](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/paravirtual/)
- [Paravirtual SCSI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/paravirtual-scsi/)
- [storage adapters](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/storage-adapters/)
- [Sysinternals](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/sysinternals/)
- [Utilities](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/utilities/)
- [Startup](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/startup/)
- [System Information](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/system-information/)
- [System Folders](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/system-folders/)
- [Azure](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/azure/)
- [Active Directory](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/active-directory/)
- [Azure Active Directory](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/azure-active-directory/)
- [AAD Connect](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/aad-connect/)
- [Azure AD Connect](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/azure-ad-connect/)
- [Azure Active Directory Connect](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/azure-active-directory-connect/)
- [Force Sync](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/force-sync/)
- [Headless](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/headless/)
- [WiFi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/wifi/)
- [ZRAM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/zram/)
- [Fail2Ban](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/fail2ban/)
- [Split-tunnel](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/split-tunnel/)
- [OS upgrade](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/os-upgrade/)
- [Raspbian](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/raspbian/)
- [Backup](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/backup/)
- [Remote Desktop Services](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/remote-desktop-services/)
- [Remote Web Access](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/remote-web-access/)
- [IIS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/iis/)
- [URL](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/url/)
- [RDWeb](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rdweb/)
- [Customization](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/customization/)
- [Customizations](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/customizations/)
- [Change](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/change/)
- [Modify](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/modify/)
- [Replace](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/replace/)
- [printer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/printer/)
- [network printer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/network-printer/)
- [CUPS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cups/)
- [USB printer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/usb-printer/)
- [shared printer](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/shared-printer/)
- [remote desktop](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/remote-desktop/)
- [RDP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/rdp/)
- [xrdp](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/xrdp/)
- [Restore](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/restore/)
- [putty](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/putty/)
- [PRI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pri/)
- [VoIP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/voip/)
- [T1](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/t1/)
- [T1 Controller](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/t1-controller/)
- [Integrated Router](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/integrated-router/)
- [4321](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/4321/)
- [MGCP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mgcp/)
- [ISDN](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/isdn/)
- [telnet](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/telnet/)
- [authentication](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/authentication/)
- [Ubiquiti](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ubiquiti/)
- [Unifi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/unifi/)
- [Home lab](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/home-lab/)
- [DDNS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ddns/)
- [Dynamic DNS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dynamic-dns/)
- [UDM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/udm/)
- [DuckDNS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/duckdns/)
- [Apple](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/apple/)
- [FaceTime](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/facetime/)
- [Recommended](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/recommended/)
- [Useful](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/useful/)
- [Software](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/software/)
- [SCCM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/sccm/)
- [Excel](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/excel/)
- [Device Collection](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/device-collection/)
- [Camera](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/camera/)
- [Dashcam](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dashcam/)
- [Dash Camera](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dash-camera/)
- [Always-on](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/always-on/)
- [Cellular](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cellular/)
- [4G](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/4g/)
- [4G LTE](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/4g-lte/)
- [Owlcam](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/owlcam/)
- [Git](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/git/)
- [GitLab](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gitlab/)
- [GitHub](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/github/)
- [IDE](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ide/)
- [Coding](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/coding/)
- [Dev](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dev/)
- [DevOPs](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/devops/)
- [Development](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/development/)
- [iPhone](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/iphone/)
- [QR code](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/qr-code/)
- [Configuration Manager](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/configuration-manager/)
- [Client Actions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/client-actions/)
- [Nutanix](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/nutanix/)
- [Prism](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prism/)
- [CVM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cvm/)
- [Prism service](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prism-service/)
- [AHV](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ahv/)
- [Hyper-V](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/hyper-v/)
- [default password](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/default-password/)
- [change password](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/change-password/)
- [password](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/password/)
- [tweaks](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tweaks/)
- [hardening](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/hardening/)
- [Security](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/security-2/)
- [plugins](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/plugins/)
- [cluster](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cluster/)
- [services](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/services/)
- [Internet](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/internet/)
- [IP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ip/)
- [IP Address](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ip-address/)
- [CLI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/cli/)
- [AOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/aos/)
- [ACLI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/acli/)
- [NCC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ncc/)
- [archive](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/archive/)
- [tar](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tar/)
- [tarball](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tarball/)
- [gz](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gz/)
- [gzip](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gzip/)
- [compression](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/compression/)
- [.tar.gz](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tar-gz/)
- [Domain Controller](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/domain-controller/)
- [DC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/dc/)
- [password reset](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/password-reset/)
- [Domain Admin](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/domain-admin/)
- [LCM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/lcm/)
- [scratch disk](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/scratch-disk/)
- [insufficient space](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/insufficient-space/)
- [VCSA](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vcsa/)
- [vMotion](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/vmotion/)
- [Ham Radio](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ham-radio/)
- [Amateur radio](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/amateur-radio/)
- [Links](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/links/)
- [Monitor](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/monitor/)
- [Gear](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gear/)
- [Desk](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/desk/)
- [Desktop](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/desktop/)
- [Mount](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mount/)
- [managed host](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/managed-host/)
- [access restricted](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/access-restricted/)
- [start](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/start/)
- [stop](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/stop/)
- [restart](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/restart/)
- [status](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/status/)
- [CentOS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos/)
- [Centos 7](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos-7/)
- [Centos 8](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos-8/)
- [Kernel](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/kernel/)
- [Kernel Upgrade](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/kernel-upgrade/)
- [Centos 8 stream](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos-8-stream/)
- [Install](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/install/)
- [Apache](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/apache/)
- [MariaDB](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mariadb/)
- [MySQL](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mysql/)
- [PHP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/php/)
- [PHP 8.0](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/php-8-0/)
- [PHP 8.1](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/php-8-1/)
- [NextCloud](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/nextcloud/)
- [LAMP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/lamp/)
- [AV](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/av/)
- [ClamAV](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/clamav/)
- [serial console](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/serial-console/)
- [Azure CLI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/azure-cli/)
- [admin](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/admin/)
- [reset](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/reset/)
- [admin reset](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/admin-reset/)
- [Maintenance Mode](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/maintenance-mode/)
- [stuck](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/stuck/)
- [occ](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/occ/)
- [AdGuard Home](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/adguard-home/)
- [content filter](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/content-filter/)
- [Mark-of-the-Web](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mark-of-the-web/)
- [MOTW](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/motw/)
- [ZoneId](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/zoneid/)
- [Zone.Identifier](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/zone-identifier/)
- [browser](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/browser/)
- [Docker](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/docker/)
- [Docker CE](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/docker-ce/)
- [containers](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/containers/)
- [Centos 9 stream](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos-9-stream/)
- [CentOS 9](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/centos-9/)
- [docker-compose](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/docker-compose/)
- [Ubuntu](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ubuntu/)
- [Ubuntu Server](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ubuntu-server/)
- [Amazon Linux 2](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/amazon-linux-2/)
- [EC2](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ec2/)
- [ESI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/esi/)
- [Crypto; Cryptocurrency; Blockchain; Helium; Helium Miner](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/crypto-cryptocurrency-blockchain-helium-helium-miner/)
- [Miners](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/miners/)
- [nifi](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/nifi/)
- [data](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/data/)
- [data integration](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/data-integration/)
- [data flow](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/data-flow/)
- [data stream](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/data-stream/)
- [LLM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/llm/)
- [LLMs](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/llms/)
- [GPT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gpt/)
- [GPTs](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gpts/)
- [Prompt Engineering](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prompt-engineering/)
- [Natural Language Programming](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/natural-language-programming/)
- [Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prompting/)
- [ChatGPT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/chatgpt/)
- [AI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ai/)
- [Language](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/language/)
- [Language Learning](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/language-learning/)
- [Prompt Hacks](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prompt-hacks/)
- [Prompt Tweaks](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prompt-tweaks/)
- [Prompt Cheats](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/prompt-cheats/)
- [Travel Prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/travel-prompt/)
- [Travel Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/travel-prompting/)
- [RoadTrip Prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/roadtrip-prompt/)
- [Road Trip Prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/road-trip-prompt/)
- [RoadTrip Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/roadtrip-prompting/)
- [Road Trip Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/road-trip-prompting/)
- [Tourism Prompts](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tourism-prompts/)
- [Travel Prompts](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/travel-prompts/)
- [Tourism Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tourism-prompting/)
- [Tour Prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tour-prompt/)
- [Tour Prompts](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tour-prompts/)
- [Tour Prompting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/tour-prompting/)
- [ChatGPT4All](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/chatgpt4all/)
- [GPT4All](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/gpt4all/)
- [Local GPT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/local-gpt/)
- [Local LLM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/local-llm/)
- [Self-Hosting](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/self-hosting/)
- [Self-hosted LLM](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/self-hosted-llm/)
- [Self-Hosted GPT](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/self-hosted-gpt/)
- [Debian](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/debian/)
- [Raspian](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/raspian/)
- [data reset](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/data-reset/)
- [log management](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/log-management/)
- [clearing file](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/clearing-file/)
- [emptying file](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/emptying-file/)
- [deleting file](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/deleting-file/)
- [purging file](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/purging-file/)
- [NCLI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ncli/)
- [PCLI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/pcli/)
- [ICACLS](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/icacls/)
- [Permissions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/permissions/)
- [Inheritance](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/inheritance/)
- [Files](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/files/)
- [Folders](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/folders/)
- [Permission Inheritance](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/permission-inheritance/)
- [ACL](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/acl/)
- [ACE](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ace/)
- [NTFS Permissions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/ntfs-permissions/)
- [Subfolders](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/subfolders/)
- [File Permissions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/file-permissions/)
- [Folder Permissions](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/folder-permissions/)
- [Windows 11](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/windows-11/)
- [Command Prompt](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/command-prompt/)
- [MAC](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mac/)
- [MAC address](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/mac-address/)
- [GetMac](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/tag/getmac/)

## Media Tags

- [NCP-MCI](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/ncp-mci/)
- [Nutanix](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/nutanix/)
- [NCP](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/ncp/)
- [Certification](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/certification/)
- [Badge](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/badge/)
- [MCAAA](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/mcaaa/)
- [Azure Administrator](https://IT.Giffen.cloud/media_tag/azure-administrator/)