Month: July 2011
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Domain Auto-Enrollment / Hostname Management with Powershell
I am working on a project where I spin up a number of Windows servers into AWS and had to automate the AD enrollment and hostname setting. To do this, I used the following powershell script which I setup as a scheduled task to run at startup and then create an AMI and/or template from […]
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Fedora 15 Automatic Updates
Now why would a Linux distribution have automatic updates? They don’t. They never have. They allow the user to maintain software updates without intervention. Automation is performed by the administrator and that’s why most folks use Linux. Not any more. I was tailing the system log on my Fedora 15 desktop yesterday when I see […]
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Jenkins Slave Authentication
Note that the following applies to a Windows Slave connecting to a Linux master. When implementing authentication with Jenkins and using slaves, it is important to allow slaves to authenticate to the master in order to continue working. When using the JNLP protocol with slaves, the following may be done to authenticate slaves to the […]