Posts for: #PowerShell

Upgrading drives in GCP the good ol’ fashioned way

Google, you are drivin’ me crazy

It has been fun running systems across three different cloud environments. Each one has their own nuance making me learn one thing three different times. The most recent fun has been managing disks for virtual machines.

I need to upgrade some of our servers’ hard drives to solid state drives to fix some disk bottlenecks. Yes, even the cloud can provision both hard drives and solid state drives if your heart desires.

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Silent Installs

Quick & easy intro to silent installs and ODT

I’ve been using Windows for over 15 years and even worked in IT maintaining PC’s during college. This is why I use MacOS and Ubuntu. Jokes aside, Windows has come a long way in getting stuff done with the terminal. PowerShell and WSL makes for a great one-two punch in productivity. I loved it when chocolatey came out and used it immediately on my PC. Although it’s made great progress, there are still times where it reminds me that it’s Windows.

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