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WSUS: brute force patching
Feb 25, 2021

WSUS: brute force patching

Make a Windows server forget about patches from the internet.

Categories: WSUS Ansible Windows
Temporarily turn off URI parsing in Powershell
Dec 2, 2019

Temporarily turn off URI parsing in Powershell

Powershell\s invoke-restmethod did not work as intended. Some REST calls worked, but some didn't. It took me quite some time to figure out what was going on...

Install hassio/Home Assistant on a raspberry pi with Raspbian Buster
Nov 9, 2019

Install hassio/Home Assistant on a raspberry pi with Raspbian Buster

If you install Homeassistant on Raspbian Buster using the step by step description at home-assistant.io, the web gui does not start. Your browser is hanging, and there is no good error message.

Ansible: b64decode filter when using _copy_ not binary safe - example for Windows
Oct 31, 2019

Ansible: b64decode filter when using _copy_ not binary safe - example for Windows

Sometimes you would like to fetch a file from one server, then put it onto another. There are many ways to solve this.

Categories: Development Ansible
Iperf on ESXi
Oct 18, 2019

Iperf on ESXi

Quick one. If you need iperf on your ESXi server, you need to install an obscure, 3rd party package.

Categories: Development ESXi Iperf