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Timezone aware cron on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Problem: System is running in UTC time zone and I would like to set user cron entries in local time (Australia/Melbourne). It is annoying modifying your cron jobs every 6 months due to daylight savings changes. Resolution: Install fcron and get time zone aware...

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The Certification Journey

After 10 years working in the Fitting & Machining trade, moving into the IT industry and re-training as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer led to other vendor certifications:  Sept 28, 2019 Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert June 13, 2017...

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N-Central Poor Mans Report Manager

The problem with N-Central Report Manager is that it is only supported using a rather old version of SQL (Something like 2016). If you use the MAPS (Microsoft Action Pack Subscription) you only get licenses for the latest versions (SQL Server 2019) Inspired by a...

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Undeprecate my Powershell

So I was attempting to create a Powershell script that would Create an Azure AD Application and do the Application Admin consent aswell The script I had as a sample used AzureRM to get a refresh token and then get an access token to then do the POST to the...

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