So I achieved this certification on Sept 29 2019 My last Microsoft Certification was Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in March 2002. So a while in between drinks
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Learn AS-400
If you want to have a look around AS-400 try pub400.com Just so I remember the SSL Port is 992
MYOB Essentials handling a credit card payment
The situation: Business Bank Account and Credit Card Account Bank feed from the Business Account and Credit Card Transactions imported using QIF Import $110.56 from the Business Acct goes to the Visa Account How do you link the transfer In Banking => Banking...
Bash alias to copy ssh public key
If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy. It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen # put this into ~/.bash_profile alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee...
pgAdmin / pgcli could not send data to server: Socket is not connected
My setup is My home network is IPv6 enabled. I have an AAAA record specifying the IPv6 address of the Amazon EC2 instances Elastic IP <IPv6 enabled home network> | <internet> | <Dockerized Postgres on EC2 Instance> Getting this error message when attempting...
Picking the right Azure Solution
Good video on how to choose services. Nice how he delimits the OLTP and OLAP offerings. https://youtu.be/ZpK_lv6HJkQ
GRS and RA-GRS
In short RA-GRS is available to you without M$'s help. GRS needs a failover triggered by M$ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs GRS replicates your data to another data center in a secondary region, but that data is available...
Remove all your resource groups and hence their contents in Azure
You can do this two ways either with one line of power shell code or more safely by wrapping it in a script that first checks which subscription you are logged into and then ask you nicely if you really want to delete all the resource groups in your Subscription. How...
NTTTCP Windows – Linux both directions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/create-vm-accelerated-networking-powershell#supported-vm-instances SendReceiveWindowsLinuxntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -nsntttcp -r -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -NLinuxWindowsntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.4 -Nntttcp -r -m...
Evidence that Managed Disks support LRS but not ZRS and GRS Replication
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/managed-disks-overview#highly-durable-and-available Highly durable and available Managed disks are designed for 99.999% availability. Managed disks achieve this by providing you with three replicas of...