PowerShell Environment Variable $env:
Environment variables in PowerShell store key-value pairs that define system settings. They are inherited from the local Windows operating system and can be accessed using the $env: prefix.
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Apple Protect Mail Activity and Pi-Hole
Apple’s "Protect Mail Activity" is a powerful feature designed to enhance your email privacy by masking your IP address and preventing senders from tracking your email activity. However, when combined with Pi-hole, it can lead to unexpected delays in email delivery.
Setting up persistent NFS mount via fstab
Providing storage to your Linux system is a common practice to separate storage from the computing unit. By utilizing a Synology 2-Bay NAS with RAID 1, you can ensure that your important data is secure and easily accessible. This setup not only offers redundancy but also allows for flexible sharing options across different Linux systems.
SAN (Storage) Basic's
A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a specialized network that provides block-level data storage. Unlike traditional file storage, SANs separate storage devices from servers, creating a dedicated, high-performance environment for accessing and managing storage.
NGINX Proxy Manager | HTTP Security Response Headers
For hardening/securing a website which uses NPM (Nginx Proxy Manager) as reverse proxy, its recommended to use security headers. Security headers are like an additional layer of security beside https. For this purpose we are going to implement those headers in our nginx proxy manager configuration which is of course running as Docker Container in our environment.
Enable LDAPS for AD-Integrated Netapp SVM's
AD-Integrated SVMs are using LDAP for fetching/verification/resolving of Users/Groups from Active Directory. This behavior is independent from authentication protocols -> NTLM/Kerberos.
Pi-hole | IPv6 & Fritzbox
As default Pi-hole is processing IPv4 DNS requests. But nowadays your local clients receive also IPv6 addresses from your Router. So your clients are able to request IPv6 request, which would be bypassed your Pi-hole. This would also explain the “strange” behavior, why you’re getting furthermore some adds.
Linux Commands
The new category shorts will be a compact blogpost about the essential information about a topic.
VMware | PowerCLI SSH
A short description about enabling/disabling SSH in bulk within vSphere Environment. At first we are going to figure out which hosts already have SSH enabled (or disabled) afterwards we disable (or enable) it.
Pi-hole | Privacy settings
This article is about Privacy Settings within Pi-Hole. If you want to disable logging for certain reasons for example to save disk space on your little raspberry pi or to be complaint with any necessary privacy requirement, then is could be a interesting article for you.