Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

Had to do this earlier, I’d accidentally created a standard AKV instance and I wanted to make it premium to benefit from hardware backed key storage (required for a project I’m building), the...

https://vinf.net/2023/11/30/convert-azure-key-vault-from-standard-to-premium/

This is quite neat trick, as part of my standard home office setup I have a window on one of my screens showing a realtime gping to an Internet DNS server and my router, this allows me to quickly...

https://vinf.net/2023/09/26/use-gping-to-graph-http-response-times/

Should you have a requirement to export logs from say a Teams phone system to Excel for some analysis you’ll see that by default it interprets the ‘+’ International dialling symbol and turn...

https://vinf.net/2023/09/10/make-excel-show-phone-numbers-correctly/

On occasion I have a bunch of commands to run inside a Linux VM over an SSH session from my Mac terminal (Zsh) It’s tricky to get a variety of commands to reliably execute sequentially – some...

https://vinf.net/2023/02/21/paste-multi-line-shell-commands-via-ssh-session/

If you have a Ring doorbell and have it ‘paired’ with Alexa so that when someone presses the doorbell it announces ‘there is someone at the front door” (or whatever) and it has stopped do...

https://vinf.net/2022/12/08/why-has-my-amazon-alexa-device-stopped-announcing-when-people-press-my-ring-doorbell/

Useful command, parked here for next time I forget how  az account list-locations --output table  Also possible to output as JSON etc, by adjusting the --output parameter

https://vinf.net/2022/12/06/list-all-azure-regions-from-cli/

I’ve been a long-time Amazon customer, but I’m also a bit of a nerd, and for ages I’ve been trying to figure out (quantify!) how much I’ve ordered from the big shop of everything since I ...

https://vinf.net/2022/12/01/how-to-export-all-your-amazon-orders-to-excel/

I’ve been a VMUG leader for the last 10+ years and it’s been a great experience, I hope you’ve all enjoyed the content the team and I have put on. However, as announced earlier I’m moving...

https://vinf.net/2022/09/22/standing-down-from-uk-and-london-vmug/

We (The UK/London VMUG team) have a massive archive of recording from the last 7 or so years of UKVMUG (and more recently London) VMware User Group events, this is community event run by voluntee...

https://vinf.net/2022/03/28/london-and-uk-vmug-sessions-the-album/

Thought it may be useful to add a post showing what I use daily. Office, work from home place – Fancy office shed at the end of my garden, fully insulated & double glazed 5m x 5m with concrete ...

https://vinf.net/2021/12/07/what-i-use/