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This is a multi-part series. Part 1 (this guide) is the basics of setting up the VPS on Linode. Part 2 covers SSH and Firewalls, and Part 3 covers installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, and setting up a domain name for our Linode VPS. Personally, I use Linode Linux VPS’s (virtual private servers) to run multiple app projects, and websites and for testing certain technologies. Linode is one of the easiest platforms to get started with Linux servers in my opinion and a great place to learn about and deploy your projects. Their interface is well laid out, easy to understand, and they offer many ready-to-go options in their marketplace if you don’t want to start from scratch. ...

If you’re like me, you want to protect your systems from all sorts of attacks. We all know that multi-factor authentication is a great tool to better protect your computers, services, and accounts. This guide will walk you through how to setup a Yubikey on Manjaro Linux. What is Yubikey? Yubikey is a hardware device, typically USB, which serves as a multi-factor authentication method. You plug the device into your USB port and when authenticating to a system, you will tap it. These devices come in various forms, such as USB-A, USB-C, NFC etc. For this guide, I assume you already have a Yubikey device, if not you can grab one from their official site. I’m using the Yubikey 5 NFC for my example. Let’s get started setting up our Yubikey on Manjaro. ...

So you need to deploy PowerShell scripts in Intune, also known as Microsoft Endpoint Manager, or MEM? We’ve got you covered with 3 different ways to get your PowerShell scripts to Intune endpoint machines. We will cover deploying a single PowerShell script to run one time, deploying proactive remediations, and deploying a PowerShell script packaged as a Win32 app. There are a few reasons you may want to deploy PowerShell scripts to Intune endpoint devices, such as Windows 10 computers and servers. ...

If you are setting up a Proxmox Active Directory lab environment and are looking to install a Windows Domain Controller on Proxmox, this is the guide for you. Today we will walk through the installation and configuration of Windows Server 2019 and promote it to be a domain controller, all inside Proxmox. After completing this guide you will have a functional domain controller that you can then manage devices, virtual machines, users, and groups. Let’s go ahead and hop into Proxmox and create a new VM. Be sure to have a Windows Server 2019 ISO to install the OS with before proceeding. If you don’t have that, you can grab an evaluation copy from Microsoft. ...

If you are a C# developer like me and you also use or would like to use Linux as your OS, this guide is for you. Today we will be walking through setting up dotnet in Linux and VSCode. I am using Manjaro Linux as my distribution, you may be able to take away information from this post and apply it to other distributions as well. If you haven’t installed VSCode on Manjaro yet, check out our guide for that as well. We also just added a guide on installing JetBrains Rider for Linux as well, if you prefer a fully featured .NET IDE. ...