Using gcloud in Azure Pipelines
Using Azure Pipelines to deploy Cloud Run applications has recently become a lot easier. Read more »
IAP Desktop 2.10
On Tuesday, I released version 2.10 of IAP Desktop, introducing proxy auto-configuration support, better AppLocker compatibility and more. Read more »
Raising PropertyChanged events with the help of a LINQ expression
If you have done any modern GUI development on .NET, then you are probably familiar with the INotifyPropertyChanged interface and the joys of implementing that interface.
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How do I know when my VM is ready to connect
When you automatically provision VM instances, you might need to know when the initialization has completed so that you can connect to the VM or initiate the next deployment steps. There are a few ways to determine when a VM is ready, so let us explore what these are. Read more »
Goodbye RDCMan, hello IAP Desktop
Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is gone, it and took the Google Cloud IAP for Remote Desktop plugin with it. But now there is IAP Desktop to supersede both of them. Read more »
Automatically joining a VM to Active Directory on Google Cloud
Cloud computing is all about being able to dynamically scale, provision, and decommission resources or entire environments on demand. But the idea that infrastructure is dynamic clashes with some assumptions Active Directory is built around, and creates a challenge if you run Windows workloads in the cloud. Read more »
Understanding Windows VM initialization on Google Cloud
On Google Cloud, a Linux instance boots in about 30 seconds while a Windows instance takes a full 2 minutes to turn up – why is Windows so much slower? Read more »
22 best practices for running Active Directory on Google Cloud
Twenty years have passed since Microsoft released Windows 2000 and introduced Active Directory to the market. The excitement about Active Directory has certainly ebbed since then – but at the same time, it is difficult to overstate the impact that Active Directory has had on the IT market. Read more »
Creating an image from an ISO file
If you have been an MSDN, TechNet, or Action Pack subscriber in the past, you probably remember the binders full of discs that Microsoft used to ship. Read more »
Creating a PowerShell script that can install itself as module
Powershell advanced functions are a lightweight, yet pretty powerful way to extend the set of commands available in a Powershell sessions. Advanced functions look and feel almost exactly like proper cmdlets, but they are written in Powershell and therefore quick to develop.
By default, advanced functions are ephemeral though: If you run a script containing an advanced function, that function is going to be available for the rest of the Powershell session – after that, it is gone. To make an advanced function available permanently – like a cmdlet – you have to wrap it in a Powershell module, and install that module.
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