Among the ARM based devices that I have, Orange Pi 3 (H6) development board and the Amlogic S905X2 based TVBox are happens to be the most cost effective compute ones. The O’PI 3 running supported version of Armbian OS and with its GPIO pins does...
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March 19, 2021 Prasanta Kumar Panda
DevOps
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Domain Controller (DC), like any IT infrastructure is not immune from attack. This post is a quick collection of best practices and measures that can be considered to safeguard a domain controller by minimizing the attack surface. Physical or virtual hardware layer. UEFI and Secure...
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March 11, 2021 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Active Directory, securing privilege access
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Continuing with the last post, this post will focus on collecting multi cluster inventory details through Prism Central (PC). As part of collecting the inventory, query one or more prism central in the environment to prepare following reports Details for each Nutanix cluster Node list...
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February 1, 2021 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Nutanix, Powershell
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In this post I will use Nutanix REST API and PowerShell to capture the details for inventory creation purpose of Nutanix Infra. Prism is the management component of Nutanix distributed architecture. Prism service runs on every Nutanix Controller VMs (CVM) that each Nutanix Node needs...
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July 30, 2020 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Nutanix, Powershell
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The importance of securing privilege access, especially when it comes to enterprise active directory is well understood and hence a preamble is not required to set a context. Past incidents of compromised active directory privileged accounts leading to serious business impact has already given the...
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July 29, 2020 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Active Directory, securing privilege access
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Using OpenSSL to simplify SHA1 to SHA256 migration of internal PKI Infra
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October 25, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
OpenSSL, PKI, SHA256, Uncategorized
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Deploy windows 10 OS using PowerShell scripting through Custom WinPE
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July 21, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Uncategorized, Win10, Windows 10, WinPE
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Driver download automation for HP systems, using windows 10 OS
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June 24, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Drive Download automation, Driver, HP, Uncategorized, Win10, Windows 10
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Automating Lenovo system driver download for Windows 10 OS.
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June 24, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
Drive Download automation, Driver, Lenovo, Uncategorized, Win10, Windows 10
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My background is more on server technologies and hence inbox tools like PowerShell is more natural than using tools like MDT. For the script to prepare windows 10 image, here are my key objectives It has to be smaller install.esd instead of install.wim ESD file...
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May 15, 2016 Prasanta Kumar Panda
DA, Direct Access, DISM, Uncategorized, Win10, Windows 10
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