Trond Jakob Sjøvang

My ISP does not give me a static IP. It doesn’t change often, but in the rare case that it has changed I never discover it before I actually need it.

So. I wanted a very simple way of auto-updating the home.example.com record. I didn’t want to bother with a thirdparty client from something like dyndns (and I didn’t want to pay for anything).

As I use Cloudflare as dns service for all domains I own I could just use their API and solve it with a oneliner, but doing it with Ansible is more readable

To change VM Size when your virtual machines are part of an availability set can be a pain in the Azure Portal. Especially if the new size you want is not available on your current cluster and the resources have to be moved as well.

The entire process is a lot easier to do with powershell

Get-ADUser -SearchBase "ou=users,dc=contoso,dc=com" -Filter * -Properties Name, EmployeeNumber, UserPrincipalName, Manager | where {$_.Manager -eq $null} | ft Name, EmployeeNumber, UserPrincipalName, Manager

Because “Manager” is an extended attribute in Active Directory you can’t use -Filter {Manager -notlike “*“} like you would with basic attributes