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Installing VS Code on Raspberry Pi
A short walk-through of installing Visual Studio Code on a Raspberry Pi.
Additional written instructions can be found at https://edgoad.com/2021/02/installing-vs-code-on-raspberry-pi.html -
Intro to Raspberry Pi
A brief introduction to the Raspberry Pi and how to use it. -
Intro to using GIT and GitHub
A brief walk-though of how to setup and use GIT and GitHub. -
Using Personal Access Tokens with GIT and GitHub
A short walk-through of how to use Personal Access Tokens to work with GitHub.
Written instructions can be found at https://edgoad.com/2021/02/using-personal-access-tokens-with-git-and-github.html -
Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by using Azure Metrics Explorer and metric alerts
A walk-through of how to setup monitoring on your virtual machines in Azure and how to enable alerting for specific metrics -
Secure your Azure virtual machine disks
A walk-through of the Microsoft Learn Lab to secure your VM disks. This lab shows you how easy it is to create a key vault in Azure and then use those keys to encrypt the VM hard disks -
Protect your virtual machine settings with Azure Automation State Configuration
A walk-through of how to use Azure Automation State Configuration to publish and manage DSC templates -
Create Azure users and groups in Azure Active Directory
A walk-through of the Microsoft Learn Lab. This lab shows how to create an Azure AD environment, create users, and groups in AAD. -
Setting up AD Trusts
A walk-through of setting up trusts in Active Directory -
Transferring and Seizing FSMO Roles
A short walk-through showing different methods of transferring the Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles in AD. First we transfer them using the GUI tools, then via PowerShell. Finally, we show how to forcibly seize the roles. -
Creating AD Sites
A walk-through of how to create Active Directory Sites, Site Links, and Bridgehead servers to assist in AD replication -
Secure your Azure SQL Database
A walk-through of the Microsoft Learn lab to secure our SQL database in Azure. This lab shows several ways to secure the database with firewalls, user permissions, data masking, and advanced security options.