September 2014

30th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

Disabling zooming in Google Maps iframe

Here is a really quick solution on how to disable zooming, mouse scrolling and mouse movement in an iframe….

24th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

Sublime Text – Installation and Configuration

I thought I would write an article on how to install and configure Sublime Text (currently using v3) as per how I like it. This post is more a reference guide for myself, so that I don’t forget how to do it in the future. If it helps you too – then awesome!

19th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

How To – Disable IPv6 on a Windows Machine

To completely disabled IPv6 on a machine you need to disable it from the Network Adapter and then also from the registry. To do this follow these steps:

19th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

Add DNS forwarding to resolve internet addresses

I am currently in the process of building a new home test lab, and wanted to be able to access the internet from within my test lab domain. The best way to do this is to add my ISP DNS servers as DNS forwards on my domain DNS server. To do this, follow the details below

18th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

How To – Send an email with PowerShell

This is a quick article on how to send an email with PowerShell. The way I have done this is that I have created a Send-Email PowerShell function which can then be added to your function library and dot sourced in your PowerShell scripts.

Alternatively you could just copy paste this function directly into your script and call it from there. Either way, it is simple and it works. Plus you can send both plain-text and HTML emails. So here it is…

17th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

PowerShell: Find AD User by Full Name

Most of the time when searching for a user in AD you are going to be finding them by their username, however what happens if you don’t have their username and you still want to find them?

This script allows you to search for AD users based on their Full Name even when you don’t know their username.

13th September 2014 · Luca Sturlese

How To – Create custom VMware ESXi Image

If you are installing VMware ESXi on a server \ computer, sometimes you might run into a problem where ESXi cannot detect a Network Adapter (NIC) and therefore will not allow you to continue the installation. The reason for this is because the native ESXi installer does not contain the drivers for the NIC you have installed. This is the situation I found myself in recently when building an ESXi host in my home test lab.

To resolve this problem, we need to inject the drivers into the VMware ESXi installer image and therefore create a custom VMware ESXi image. Although this sounds hard, it is actually pretty easy. Below are the steps required to achieve this…