Hello, I’m Michael

 

You’re probably here to learn or fix something. Good luck.

My intention with this blog is to provide information about some of the projects, roadblocks, solutions to those roadblocks, and other arbitrary tasks that I have encountered in my technical and daily life. I hope you take something away from my site.

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Recent Posts

Install Visio 2016 alongside Office 365

Have you ever tried to install Visio 2016 on a computer that you already have Office 365 installed already and it gave you a “Click-to-Run” error? This error is fairly…

Home Lab 2.0

This post will serve as the 10,000 ft overview of my environment and what it all consists of. I plan to follow up this post with a series of smaller posts breaking down…

WordPress Permissions for Windows

So I have had this post sitting in the “Draft” stage for years now. Probably 3 or 4. I thought I was going to tackle this and set something definitively out there for…

Identify Failed Port and Replace NIC

This past week, I had a failed port one one of my C2100’s. The specific part was a Intel PRO/1000 VT Quad Port Gigabit PCI-E Ethernet Network Adapter (HM9JY). Now just…

Populate list of all Steam Games

I have updated this as of 12/27/2023 as a user came across this page and informed me the script I wrote is not long working. I have updated the script to work again. Log…

Configure and Run vCheck

vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script that started with one guy, but is now a community driven and from what I have seen, it’s pretty neat. vCheck can be…

Retro Gaming on Raspberry Pi

I was recently asked to help someone build a “Retro Gaming System”. While thinking of the best way to do this, I figured that I would like to give them something that…

Powershell On Linux

You can now use Powershell with Linux Operating Systems! See instructions below on how to set up your Linux distro with Powershell Source CentOS / RHEL Install wget (if…

Redirect everything but robots.txt in IIS

You can use the following URL Rewrite rules to redirect everything but a robots.txt file from one domain to another. Requirements IIS 7.0 or greater URL Rewrite 2.0…

WordPress on IIS 8.5 (Windows 2012 R2)

The Manual Installation and Configuration of WordPress and all accompanying components on Windows Server 2012 R2 WordPress “Requirements” PHP 5.6 or greater MySQL 5.5 or…

Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host

Set a Static IP on your ESXi Host V5.5 Assigning a static IP to your ESXi host is extremely easy to do, and is highly recommended as you will always want your host to…

VMware ESXi 5.5.0 on Dell C2100 FS12-TY

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Install and Setup Plex on FreeNAS

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Install and Setup FreeNAS on Dell CS24-SC

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Welcome to my blog

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