Long story short:
This way, the next time I encounter the same issue, I’ll be able to find the solution easier by googling.
This category contains assorted tips, tricks and solutions regarding all the different workarounds and solutions related to technology pretty much in general.
In this article, I’ll share a simple script for a simple use case: removing blobs from a virtual directory structure in a container in an Azure blob storage account. This should be useful for a case like ours; removing certain directories and subdirectories but not the whole container. But let’s…Continue reading How to selectively remove items from an Azure blob storage container?
Anyone still remember Log4Shell? The incredibly easy-to-exploit, zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, that made arbitrary code execution extremely simple and straightforward. The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was simply a side effect of a nifty new feature implemented way back when. But that’s enough…Continue reading How to update application settings for (all of your) App Services and Azure Functions on Azure using az cli?
Azure offers this great offering that is in my mind underutilized still – managed certificates that they’ll renew for you. While the offering is called Azure App Service Certificates, they are not only limited to being used in App Services. Their biggest strengths lie in their ease of use, automation,…Continue reading How to export an App Service Certificate from Azure?
Alright, so let’s make this a quick one. I’ve had to google this multiple times, since I have to do this a couple of times per year, which is NOT often enough for me to remember it by heart, or even for my Terminal to remember the commands properly. So,…Continue reading How to export a certificate and a private key from a .pfx using OpenSSL?
This article explains our solution to a very particular use case. We needed to go through .csproj files, find certain dependencies from them, and then figure out their versions. And all of this needed to happen in an Azure DevOps pipeline. But when would this be helpful? Well, hear me…Continue reading How to find out dependency versions in your .csproj files using PowerShell?
In this particular article, I’ll explain how to fix an issue where Microsoft Word (part of what used to be called “Microsoft Office”, but that’s now called “Microsoft 365”) decides to remove your name and everyone you tagged from any comments or conversations you might’ve had on the article. That’s…Continue reading How to “fix” Word removing tagged users from comments?
Since I ran into this annoying little issue again, I thought it might be a good time to document it for the next person who needs to google it on their phone, after frantically clicking every single button they have on their mouse, only to realize their computer really doesn’t…Continue reading How to fix Windows not recognizing your mouse clicks?
Well, this was kind of a dumb one. Search in Outlook suddenly stopped working completely. And I don’t mean the normal “Outlook Search can’t find anything” -kind of issues, I mean it literally found zero results with any search terms. Well, everything is buggy and nothing works. Not that unusual…Continue reading Outlook Search broken due to Windows Search acting up? Here’s 3 ways to fix it!
Every now and then there comes a time when you need to fiddle with DNS. It’s not that you want to do it, but sometimes you just can’t avoid it. This article explains a convenient way of using PowerShell to apply a change for all A records (these are essentially…Continue reading How to update the TTL for all A records in a zone at once in Azure?
That’s a mouthful, right? But yeah – this article shows and tells how to do a parallel foreach loop in PowerShell, and how to do it properly! Well, at least probably. This is how I did it anyway. But that’s enough chitchat, let’s get to it! Background In PowerShell, you…Continue reading How to iterate through a collection of items in a Parallel Foreach loop in PowerShell?
