Send Alt-Control-Delete to a Windows server via Remote Desktop
When you log into a Windows server via the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in some cases you need to send the Alt-Control-Delete ( in other notations Alt-Ctrl-Del, Control-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Alt-Del ) key combination to the remote server. From a Macintosh…
Splunk App for AWS
To collect data from AWS install the Splunk App for AWS plugin. The app currently can collect information from AWS Config, Config Rules, CloudTrail, Inspector, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, Billing, S3, Kinesis, Metadata. New data source To set up a new…
Skip steps in an InSpec integration test based on Chef attribute values
To speed up the test of some complex recipes, I use an attribute to skip certain long-running installations when I only need to test the rest of the recipe. We will pass Chef Attribute values into an InSpec test using environment variables. Declare an…
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No output folder
This error can happen on Linux and Windows, and the cause could be the same. On Windows Server 2012R2 I opened a command prompt. To be able to delete a directory from the Tomcat webapps folder, I have issued the shutdown command. When I started the…
Git Bash and Command Prompt cannot see the VirtualBox shared folder on Windows 10 guest
When you start a Windows 10 guest machine in VirtualBox on your workstation, you can set up shared folders to seamlessly copy files between your workstation and the Windows 10 guest machine. The shared folder appears in Windows Explorer as a mapped…
Refresh the environment variables in the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell window
When the Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell windows open, they read the environment variables from the registry. If another process changes the value of an environment variable or creates a new one, the already open windows don’t reflect those…
Install Git on Windows
If you use two-factor authentication see Create a Personal Access Token to use it as password in the command line tools at Switching to 2-factor authentication in GitHub Configure Git for Windows Enable Page Up and Page Down Set up Git Bash to…
Install Chocolatey
The Chocolatey home page is at https://chocolatey.org/ Install Chocolatey Navigate to the Chocolatey website at https://chocolatey.org/ and follow the latest instructions. At the time of writing the instructions were Using the Command prompt Open a…
The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist
When you launch an EC2 instance in AWS and the Chef script is trying to set tags on the instance you may get the error message: The instance ID ‘…’ does not exist It can happen when you launch the instance in one AWS account, and…
How to create a Docker repository in Artifactory
Artifactory supports multiple repository types, Docker is one of them. To create a new Docker repository in Artifactory Set the Custom Base URL of the Artifactory server From the Artifactory documentation at…