PowerShell: Add users from CSV to AD group
Below example code which you can use to add users from a local CSV file (with their UPN) to a active directory group.
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PowerShell: List private endpoints on AZ
Below is a high-level approach on how you might achieve this using PowerShell and the Azure CLI:
PowerShell: CPU usage remote pc
Use the powershell command below to get the list of processes on a remote Windows computer, sorted by CPU usage.
Steam Deck: Hogwarts Legacy performance
Yes, Hogwarts Legacy runs great on your little buddy, the Steam Deck! But of course, it’s never perfect. Are you for looking for some performance improvements, you can try to add the options below. Open desktop mode (or use ssh/scp), open dolphin/file explorer and edit the following file: Or with…
T-SQL: Check cpu usage SQL statements
To identify the queries that are responsible for high-CPU activity currently, run the following statement: If queries aren’t driving the CPU at this moment, you can run the following statement to look for historical CPU-bound queries:
Steam Deck: Transfer files from Windows to Deck
If you still have a Windows system somewhere, and you want to transfer files to the deck, you can easily transfer those files using SSH default, the deck has a ssh server installed, but this isn’t started.You can easily enable that using a terminal on the deck, and execute: Once…
PowerShell: Check TLS version
With the powershell script below, you can check TLS settings on Windows Server .
T-SQL: Identify queries that consume a large amount of log space
Well, SQL statements can use a log of log space, and you most probably want to find out which SQL statement is using all of your log space. The T-SQL code below will show you the SQL statements using the log space, including the size that it’s using.
T-SQL: Shrink incremental
First off you don’t ever shrink a database file unless you known it won’t need the space back again. (There’s some caveats to that statement but it mostly holds true) If that’s the space the file has consumed generally that’s the space the file needs. Shrinking just means the file…
Steam Deck: SteamGridDB plugin
Personally I didn’t like installing special plugins on the Steam Deck, just because..I don’t know :). Then I noticed that they is a plugin for ‘SteamGridDB’. What is SteamGridDB? Well, that’s a website which has a LOT of artwork for a lot of games for the steam client. If you…
Steam Deck: enter the bios
In order to enter the BIOS of your Steam Deck, you can follow the procedure below. 1. Hold the Power button on your Steam Deck. 2. Turn off your Steam Deck by selecting Shut Down from the options that appear on the screen. 3. Press and hold the Power and Volume Up buttons until you hear a beep. 4. Select Setup…
T-SQL: Clear msdb backup history
After a while,the msdb database can be overloaded with backup history, and clearing that history can be a pain. You can use the t-sql code below to clear the msdb backup history, in incremental steps of 1 week.
Linux: create MO files from PO files (wp)
Using WP-CLI you can create MO files from PO files using the following command:
Linux: migrate storage with pvmove
1. Begin by pvcreate’ing the new disk. This is the disk from the new storage array to which we want to migrate to. # pvcreate /dev/mapper/mpathY 2. Now, add this disk into the data_vg Volume Group : # vgextend data_vg /dev/mapper/mpathY Make sure there are free extents on the new…
Systemd: automatically restart after failure
With systemd you can configure the service so that it automaticaly restarts the service in case the service crashes.It’s enough to add the “restart” option to the [service] stanza within the service systemd configuraiton file.See example below. Of course, you need to reload the systemd file in order to active…
Clamav: limit memory usage
Once in a while the clamd process can get killed because of memory usage. It turns out it would always get killed when reloading the database after an update. This is due to the fact that during a database reload clamd will load the new DB first and then drop the old…
Oracle: Map ASM disks to physical disks
Mapping Oracle ASM disks to physical disks can be done using the command: This will result something like this: