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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Terraform: Version 0.12.19 Testing Date: 1/9/2020 Background: Terraform is the infrastructure as code (IaC) offering from HashiCorp. It is a tool for building, changing, and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way. Operators and Infrastructure teams […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Visual Studio Code version 1.41.1 https://code.visualstudio.com/download SDK for .NET Core 3.1.100 https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/3.1 Testing Date: 1/8/2020 Background: Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) SQL Server 2019 Enterprise Edition SQL Server Management Studio 18.4 Testing Date: 1/7/2020 Background: In this article I will install both SQL Server Database Engine and SQL Server Management Studio 18.4 on Windows 10 Enterprise. Please […]
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“Testing Environment Information Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Visual Studio Enterprise 16.4.2 Testing Date: 1/6/2020 “Summary MVC was kind of confusing for me, I am happy that Blazor is here and I look forward to continuing my journey into coding now. Blazor is a […]
Tags: blazor app, create blazor app, install blazor visual studio, visual studio blazor
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Minikube (latest release as of 12/20/2019) https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/windows/ Testing Date: 1/02/2020 Username and Password: The default login is, username: “docker”, password: “tcuser”. You can also use this login to SSH to the box directly (this requires port […]
Tags: minikube ssh, minikube username password, minikube login, minikube default login
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Minikube (latest release as of 12/20/2019) https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/windows/ Testing Date: 1/02/2020 Starting minikube VM: I decided to start my Minikube VM directly from Hyper-V without the use of “minikube start” “After this action, if you go to […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Minikube (latest release as of 12/20/2019) https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/windows/ Testing Date: 12/30/2019 Background: Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a Virtual Machine (VM) on your […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Docker Desktop Community: Version 2.1.0.5 (Released 11/18/2019) Jenkins: (Release Date 12/26/2019) – https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/jenkins Testing Date: 12/26/2019 Background: What is Jenkins? In a nutshell Jenkins CI (Continuous Integration) is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Docker Desktop Community: Version 2.1.0.5 (Released 11/18/2019) Testing Date: 12/26/2019 Error: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> docker pull microsoft/nanoserver Using default tag: latest error during connect: Post http://%2F%2F.%2Fpipe%2Fdocker_engine/v1.40/images/create?fromImage=microsoft%2Fnanoserver&tag=latest: open //./pipe/docker_engine: The system cannot find the file specified. In the […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) Docker Desktop Community: Version 2.1.0.5 (Released 11/18/2019) Testing Date: 12/23/2019 References: Docker for Windows (https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/release-notes/) Docker Images (https://hub.docker.com/search?type=image) Installation: Download the “Docker Desktop Installer.exe” from the Docker site Right click on the executable and make sure […]
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Testing Environment Information: Windows 10 Enterprise: Version 1909 (OS Build 18396.535) (Type winver or systeminfo at a Command Prompt) PowerShell Version: 5.1.18362.145 (Type “HOST” at a PowerShell Prompt) Testing Date: 12/25/2019 Background: Unfortunately, when using the following PowerShell command, it erases all other entries in your PATH Environment Variable. Most forums I’ve seen are telling […]
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DynDNS.org, the awesome service that lets you access your home computers from anywhere, recently announced that it’s getting rid of its free accounts. The most basic account now costs $25 per year. Fortunately, we can use PowerShell to keep our DNS names updated with the latest public IP Address from our Internet Service Provider for […]
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I was trying to run “New-SPSite” to create a Site Collection in SharePoint. I accidentally typed in the wrong username as the owner so I received an error. Upon investigation there is not a quick and simple way to see if a user exists outside of SharePoint before its added. Most recommended solutions require you […]
Tags: powershell, get user, get domain user, check user exist, check user
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