Reading Time: 7 minutes NetBox is a tool to combine functions like DataCenter Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and IP Address Management (IPAM) with powerful APIs into your infrastructure’s Source-of-Truth. NetBox is used by many organizations as their go-to tool for their infrastructure documentation. Today I am going to help you set this up on your Synology NAS. I’ll be using […]
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Author: Maurice Kevenaar
Synology DS923+ Review part 1 of many
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction Recently fellow co-vanguard Nico Stein helped me to get in touch with Synology to become a product reviewer. After an excellent talk with Nick over at Synology, he helped me to get a Synology Disksation DS923+, including a D4ES02-8G 8GB memory upgrade, an E10G22-T1-Mini 10Ge Ethernet module, and two of the brand spanking new, […]
Veeam Service Provider Console Chocolate...
Reading Time: 4 minutes It has been a while since I wrote a blog post about Veeam. This time, I wrote one, especially for the Service Providers running Veeam software. You may or may not know about the Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC), but in short, it’s for you if you are a Service Provider and it’s free! Just […]
FarmPi – Running OctoFarm on a Raspberry
Reading Time: 6 minutes Recently I got involved with the OctoFarm software created by James Mackay and David Zwart. I helped them creating a Chocolatey package called OctoFarm. This installs the latest LTS Release of NodeJS, MongoDB and OctoFarm on your Windows machine. If you are not familiar with Chocolatey have a look at their Why Chocolatey in their documentation. […]
OctoPi with OctoDash on RPi 4 with Hyper...
Reading Time: 14 minutes How-To install and configure OctoPrint and OctoDash on your Raspberry Pi with HyperPixel 4.0 and Raspberry Pi Camera v2
Unattended installation of Veeam using B...
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous posts I described how to setup your test environment and how to install Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO). In this blog post I will continue with the automated installation of Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR). The scripts explained Just like Veeam Backup for Office 365, the Repository also contains a folder […]
Unattended installation of Veeam using B...
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the previous post I described how to setup your test environment. Therefore I’ll assume you are going to use the Vagrant setup I described. We will now continue with the automated installation of Veeam Backup for Office 365. The scripts explained The Repository contains a folder called “vbo_scripts”. Inside this folder you’ll find the […]
Unattended installation of Veeam using B...
Reading Time: 2 minutes After I figured out how to install SQL Server Express using BoxStarter, I was able to finish my BoxStarter scripts. Currently these scrips allow you to install Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) and Veeam Backup for Office 365 (VBO). Veeam One (VONE) soon to come. There are many ways possible to have an unattended installation […]
Releasing your project using GitHub Acti...
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most of us have used git and probably GitHub as well. For quite some time they have made GitHub Actions available. This is a pipeline feature inside GitHub has the possibility to do amazing things. Big difference from AppVeyor or Travis CI is that you can include standard blocks, called actions, into your workload. The […]
Installing SQL Server using Boxstarter a...
Reading Time: < 1 minute Let me first tell you a bit about Boxstarter. It leverages Chocolatey packages to automate the installation of software and create repeatable, reboot resilient, scripted Windows environments. Chocolatey makes installing software very easy with no user intervention. When installing SQL Server on a machine the installer uses DPAPI to encrypt/decrypt data for the installation. Due to the […]