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Pizza

Makes 3 pizza bases (sauce optional). Takes 2 days. 🔒 Dough Ingredients 282 gm water 1 gm yeast (1/4 tsp) 376 gm flour 6 gm salt Method Day 1 Add flour to bowl. Warm water to ~35 C. And 270 gm water to bowl and mix like baguettes then cover. Put yeast in cup and add remaining 12 gm water to hydrate. Rest 20 mins. Sprinkle salt and yeast on top. Fold and pinch 3 times then fold into ball. Cover and rest 1 hour. Wet hands, stretch and fold ~5 times. Flip it over and shape into ball. Put in fridge immediately. Use within 3 days. When ready to cook: Note: I need to figure out ideal dough temp for shaping. Try 15 C for now. If hot, take out of fridge a few hours before. If cold give it more time. Day 2 Temp guidelines: 25 C - take dough out of fridge max 1 hour before cooking. +30 C - take dough out of fridge max 45 mins before cooking. Use plenty of flour and do fat crusts. Don't flatten middle too much. Brush crust with water to soften before putting in oven. Sauce Ingredients 1 can

Windows certificate management pack

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Disclaimer Use this management pack at your own risk. I accept no responsibility if it causes damage. Intro A simple little management pack to help you monitor certificates. For now it's just Windows certificates in the LocalMachine\My store. Tested on: SCOM 2016. Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016. There is a monitor called  Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthService.CommunicationCertificateExpirationCheck that checks the HealthService certificate in the  LocalMachine\My  store. By default it alerts with 2 weeks notice and isn't overridable. You can disable this monitor and let this mp do it, it gives 1 month's notice for expiring certificates. Elements Classes Certificate.Class.WindowsCertificate Module Types Certificate.DataSourceModule.GetWindowsCertificate Certificate.Monitor.CheckExpiry.DS Unit Monitor Types

Rye wholemeal white loaf

Makes 1. Takes ~5 hours is warm weather. Kit Big silver bowl. Ingredients 256 gm white. 128 gm wholemeal. 96 gm rye. 420 gm water. 10 gm yeast. 8 gm salt (recipe was 10 gm). 28 gm oil. Method Add all dry stuff (including yeast) to bowl and mix. Warm water to 35 C and add to bowl. Mix a little bit then add oil and mix well. Rest until doubled, 1-3 hours. Oil pan. Flour bench. Deflate in bowl and scoop out. Shimmy flour underneath. Tricky bit: Flatten and shape into log rectangle the width of the tin. Shimmy more flour underneath if needed then roll it up. Add seeds and put in pan. Rest until it's crowning, 1-3 hours. Bake 40 mins @ 2000 C. Notes 19/2/2024 Turned out good. This is a good weekly health loaf. 30/1/2024 Turned out well but was a little too salty and yeasty so try 8 gm of both next time (noted in recipe). It was quite warm so both rises took ~1 hour. Also want to drop bake time, could try warmer like 30 mins @ 200 C.

Update rollup management pack

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Disclaimer Use this management pack at your own risk. I accept no responsibility if it causes damage. Intro A simple little management pack to help you monitor update rollups versions. Tested on: SCOM 2012, 2016. Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016. Elements Classes Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.Class.WindowsComputer Module Types Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.DataSource.ManagementGroupReport Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.DataSource.ManagementPackBackup Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.DataSource.WindowsComputer Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.DailyReport Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.GetLogAnalyticsWorkspaces Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.GetTlsSettings Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.GetWindowsDiskInfo Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.GetWindowsServices Microsoft.SCOM.UpdateRollup.WriteAction.LogWindowsTestEvent Microsoft

WMI examples

Here's some info on getting WMI info with wbemtest and wmic. WBEMTEST Run  wbemtest from the command line then connect to  root\cimv2 . Win32_Product This may not match the registry of add/remove programs. SELECT * from Win32_Product where name like '%carbon%' or name like '%protection%' Win32_Service To find more properties, run the query then double click on a service name and look in the Properties section mid-screen. SELECT * FROM Win32_Service SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE (name = 'CarbonBlack' or name = 'Parity') and startmode='auto' SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name LIKE 'Gx%' SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE state="running" SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE displayname="dns client" SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name LIKE 'Gx%' and startmode="auto" SELECT * FROM Win32_Service WHERE displayname like 'mcafee%' or displayname like 'trellix%' Odd one here, I wante

Install SCOM 2016 (minimal admin access)

This will install SCOM 2016 in a lab without giving all accounts admin access. Note: The SQL eval expires so you will need to re-build MS1 each time. The SQL services and SSMS won't start and event 17051 is in the Application log. You can just keep re-arming DC1. Servers Name Description DC1.lab.com Domain controller MS1.lab.com SQL + SCOM 2016 Accounts Name Description om-install Used to install/maintain SQL & SCOM. Access removed post install. om-msa Mgmt s

Agent won't connect to gateway

I had an agent that wouldn't connect to its gateway server. I tried all the tricks but no joy. This was the event that wouldn't go away (which is very common by the way): Log: Operations Manager Source: OpsMgr Connector Level: Error Description: The OpsMgr Connector could not connect to NAME:5723. The error code is 10060L(A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.). Please verify there is network connectivity, the server is running and has registered it's listening port, and there are no firewalls blocking traffic to the destination. This caught me out. It turned out to be a Trellix firewall component blocking 5723. As soon as it was removed it connected.

SCOM 2016 Spoofing Vulnerability

Don't forget to install this on SCOM 2016. The download link is at the bottom of the article. Instructions are in the download.