As of Windows 11, we noticed that we were getting prompted to continue connecting to a network that we’d never had a problem with before. It’s already defined in group policy, so this new behavior is puzzling and annoying. The certificate in question is for the NPS/Radius server our network uses to validate credentials for the wifi. I really had … Read More
Creating an Ubuntu 20.04 cloud template & cloud-init configuration in Xen Orchestra
I had a need in my home lab to quickly deploy a bunch of thin clones of Ubuntu’s cloud image. I chose to use the cloud images Ubuntu provides instead of building a custom template. Xen Orchestra has had support for cloud-init since 2015. Quick Walkthrough Here is the short version of how this works: Download the current 20.04 ubuntu … Read More
Create a small discord.py bot to deploy a server
Building a discord.py bot to deploy a discord server for a competition.
NET-103 : Layering in Active Directory
In previous articles, we’ve built the basic services you need without getting too far in the weeds. Now we’re going to layer in a central identity service.
NET-102: Build your lab
Welcome back! We’re now going to move on to the actual effort it takes to build your lab. As you recall we got pretty far last time in documenting the beginnings of our network. For this lab I’ll be using VMWare Workstation, but you can accomplish this with Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, the free tier of VMWare’s ESX, or XCP-NG. … Read More
