Author: Alex Neihaus
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Using Claude Code, AWS MCP Server and AWS Organizations
Using Claude Code with a new AWS MCP server has changed my life. Until the combo of the two came along, writing good CloudFormation templates meant you wrote templates by hand, relying on patterns from deep inside the repos you built for previous clients and lots — lots — of Google searches and hours and…
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A PowerShell module to manage Exchange email aliases…written by AI
Vibe coding a PowerShell module to manage Exchange Online email aliases: what AI means for developers and what to watch out for in AI-generated code
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Optimize Your URL Sharing with Shlink
Using a link shortener improves your emails and documents. shlink makes long or ugly URLS much more convenient to use and share. Learn how to self-host shlink.
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Major changes are coming to Azure Storage
Azure storage users are now able to define storage without first requiring a storage account. NFS shares are the first type available in this new method of creating Azure Files. A new Microsoft.Files/fileShares ARM namespace and resource provider exposes “top level” storage in Azure.
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ReCoding America: Don’t get your hopes up
ReCoding America exactly mirrors my personal experience working on the migration of an unemployment compensation system from an on-prem environment to the AWS cloud in 2018 and 2019. It details many of the institutional and structural problems that stand in the way of IT best practices and shows the results of the primacy of policy…
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Is Microsoft Repeating Mistakes in Security?
A Microsoft fanboy hopes the company will learn from recent breaches and hacks
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How to Manage Exchange Online Email Aliases
A PowerShell function to search Exchange Online email aliases which allows Microsoft 365 users to manage multiple email aliases easily.
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Backup and Restore SQL Server 2022 to and from AWS S3
What the AWS doc won’t tell you if you want to backup SQL Server databases to S3 and your bucket isn’t in us-east-1
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Find your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
A PowerShell function to display the current IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the machine. Useful to include in $PROFILE
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Skip the certification; self-host instead
Self-hosting apps and VMs in the Azure and AWS clouds is the best way to gain the experience employers want
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The secret to PowerShell remoting over ssh
The magic line of configuration to enable PowerShell remoting over ssh.
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Make life better: Work for yourself
Work is better when you work for yourself.