Author: Paolo Frigo

Systems Administrator and Software Engineer with 10+ years' experience in server infrastructure management, data-centre operations and development across Windows and Linux.
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Automating Document Conversion from Markdown with Pandoc

I’m gradually moving away from reStructuredText (RST) and I use more MarkDown(MD) to write generic documentation.  In fact, I found myself using md files more and more and I really like the approach of focusing on content and let the tool generate a well formatted document according to the type needed.

If MarkDown doesn’t need much introduction the tool I’m using to convert .md is called Pandoc.

Pandoc is a universal document converter and from an MD file can generate multiple output format. It’s  open-source and really simple to use. Continue reading “Automating Document Conversion from Markdown with Pandoc”

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Removing a phishing email from all Exchange 2016 mailboxes with PowerShell

Does’t matter how good is your security and design in your environment with with complex spam filters, gateways and appliances… sooner or later you’ll need to remove some sort of unwanted communication from one or more mailboxes on your Exchange Server.

In a very common incident response scenario like this, PowerShell is a very useful tool, this time the cmdlet used is New-ComplianceSearch and is available on-premises and on cloud services for Exchange Server 2016.

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PowerShell Dot Sourcing

My career in IT started in Software Development and most of the time I take for granted some of the common practices and basics of programming that I learnt are also clear for every one of my IT Pro colleagues.

In brief, as developers, when we try to solve problems we define objects and writing source code we describe them into classes. That class definition has attributes and methods that let us interact with that object. Continue reading “PowerShell Dot Sourcing”

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Time Management for System Administrators: Book Review

I truly believe that often I read books at the right time,  some of them resonate with me in many ways, helping me looking things from a different perspective or simply realise that I share so many experiences with the author that make me feel involved with the whole story.

Time Management for System Administrators is exactly this type of book, peculiar for the focus on applying time management to a specific role in IT with the right amount of fun and analytic approach.

It was written a few years ago, but 99% of the content is still applicable and relevant today.

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