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Grep and RegEx One-Liners

GREP, short for Global Regular Expression Print, is a command-line utility used in Unix, Linux, and other Unix-like operating systems. It searches for text patterns or regular expressions within files and directories, enabling users to locate specific strings or patterns of characters efficiently. Regular Expressions (Regex or Regexp) are sequences...

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GCP Projects: “You do not have permission to create projects in this location.”

🔑 Key Takeaways It’s an incredibly frustrating roadblock. You’re ready to spin up a new environment, test an application, or isolate resources, and you hit a wall: “You do not have permission to create projects in this location.” From my own experience, this error feels like a bug, but it’s...

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Arcserve BMR Restore for Linux Server

Arcserve is a robust backup and restore solution, essential for system engineers handling server restoration. Restoring a Linux server will appear challenging at first, but this guide will simplify the process. It offers a step-by-step outline for performing a bare metal restore of a Linux server into VMware. While this...

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Amazing PowerShell One-Liners for System Administrators

Here is a collection of some really cool PowerShell one-liners scripts. I find them very useful for day-to-day system administration tasks. I will keep adding to this list as I learn more useful commands. List of all installed applications on a Windows device This one-liner searches the Windows Registry to...

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Essential Google Cloud Shell Commands: A Quick Reference

This guide offers a curated collection of practical Google Cloud Shell commands that streamline your cloud management tasks. These commands cover various areas, from project management to networking. How to prevent project deletion in Google Cloud Shell This is a great command to protect your cloud projects from overzealous system...

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PowerShell Script: Count Items in SharePoint Document Libraries

Key Takeaways: Why audit document library item counts with PowerShell? Knowing exactly what information resides within your SharePoint solution is critical for governance, storage management, and compliance regulations like GDPR. Manual checking is impossible at scale. PowerShell allows administrators to programmatically iterate through sites and libraries to generate accurate reports...

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Published Writing

I have a great passion for writing in my spare time and I have developed a great relationship with several USA-based managed services businesses and SEO Agencies whom I frequently guest blog for. My work has been featured in Forbes, VMWare, and numerous CIO, Healthcare, and technical blogs in the...

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Installing Glances on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7 and Compatible Distributions

Using RHEL 8/9 / Rocky 9 or CentOS Stream? – Check out the latest procedure here. Glances is a powerful, real-time system monitoring tool for Linux and Windows. It provides a wealth of information about CPU usage, memory, disk I/O, network traffic, processes, and more – either locally or remotely...

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[SOLVED] How to Install Python3 (3.12.1) on RHEL6 & RHEL7

Note: The procedure was fully tested on Python 3.12.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and CentOS6 (June 2025) A large number of operating system applications require Python. Out of the box, Red Hat 6 versions only support Python2.6, and Red Hat 7 versions only support Python2.7. Both of these...

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How to Migrate Red Hat 5 to RHEL 6/7/8/9

Migrating to a New Red Hat (RHEL) 7 Server A common task for administrators is to upgrade the Linux operating system. Often, the safest and most effective method isn’t to update the existing system but to set up a new server and migrate all critical components. Here’s a step-by-step guide...

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