My go-to lighting design software is MA Lighting’s dot2 software which offers a free onPC platform similar to grandMA2 with 1 free universe, however, dot2 only supports ArtNET / sACN output unless you have a MA Lighting node or console which are very expensive. While I now use a DMXKing eDMX1 PRO as my main...
For years I have been building and managing task sequences in MECM for various applications and device types. What resulted is folders full of task sequences that have tons of shared logic, with the primary differences being the images being applied, applications installed, and network settings. While there isn’t anything wrong with this approach, it’s...
One simple way to improve the workflow of your MECM OSD is to setup automatic uploads of task sequence logs on success or failure. This can be accomplished very easily using A Square Dozen’s Building a Better Task Sequence to provide error handling logic in your task sequence. Once you have your error handling task...
This post demonstrates how to do an MDT style folder based driver injection during OSD. While there are many ways to accomplish driver injection during MECM task sequences, my university has always used a folder based system, originally modeled off the DriverPaths1 model outlined in this post by Michael Petersen. I particularly like this configuration...
I’ve written before about how I use Cloudflare Access to provide zero trust access and MFA to my homelab without the need for running local VPN infrastructure, and while that has worked great, there was one app I could never get to work reliably behind Cloudflare: Nextcloud. The issue with Nextcloud came down to issues...
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project, rack manage, a datacenter rack organization tool. As a tool built primarily for enterprise customers, one must-have feature on my list was Single Sign-On support. I decided to use Firebase as my app development platform, mostly because I didn’t want to develop my...
I’m currently working on a new project, rack manage, which runs in a combination of Cloudflare and Google serverless environments. I decided to use Firebase for the cost and flexibility, thinking that the app wouldn’t need much besides a database connection, but as I’ve continued development, I’ve started leaning more and more on Google Cloud...
In the ever evolving landscape of cyber threats, it’s increasingly important to protect your applications from attackers, but protection can often be a hassle to setup, maintain, and integrate. My homelab runs on VMWare ESXi, and I wanted to be able to access it remotely. Years ago, I simply hosted a subdomain that went straight...