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How to Use Putty and SCP from Windows to Linux Using Keys

It’s time for another messing of the Linux and Windows world’s. Recently had the task of allowing Windows servers to scp (secure copy) files to a Linux Apache server and automate it. With the...
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How to Copy Files between Windows Systems with PowerShell Copy-Item

As a longtime Linux user I have always enjoyed the ease of being able to copy files between systems with scp, ssh and other means. With Windows systems this has been hit or miss in corporate environments...
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How to use PowerShell to create HTML from a Text File

Recently I was tasked with creating a Cluster Health Report for the Windows 2008 R2 Clusters. I was able to do this with PowerShell using the failovercluster cmdlets. This was outputted to a text file...
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How to set a Directory Sticky Bit in Linux

There are times on Linux / Unix that you need to set the permissions on a directory so that only the owner and root can delete / rename files or sub-directories in the directory. This is true by default...
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How to lock down files in Linux using chattr

As system admins there is always a few trouble users that keep changing files we don’t want them to, such as /etc/resolv.conf. We can do that using the chattr command. Here is the file with no...
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