NOTES FROM THE TERMINAL

Practical automation.
Beyond the script.

I’m Daniele, a systems and infrastructure engineer with 20+ years of experience across Windows, Linux and identity. I build automation that makes complex environments easier to operate and maintain.

PowerShell tooling, identity workflows and Linux operations, with Python and infrastructure as code in the wider engineering toolkit.

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Built, tested, occasionally broken. Written down so you don’t have to start from scratch.

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PowerShell & automationPowerShell automation for systems administration: reusable functions, error handling, module distribution and practical fixes.Linux & the terminalLinux operations from the terminal: SSH connection management, command-line disk imaging and a CentOS package-update troubleshooting note.Identity & Microsoft 365Identity and messaging administration with Active Directory, Exchange and Microsoft 365, including account automation and authentication troubleshooting.Cloud & infrastructureInfrastructure operations and automation: Azure Automation, Windows configuration, virtualisation and a companion cloud engineering notebook.PythonPython techniques for automation: reading file content and checking installed package versions from scripts.Git & version controlGit repository maintenance: use .gitignore to keep generated files, local settings and other unwanted content out of version control.

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git

Getting Started with .gitignore

🧰 This post kicks off a new series on Git essentials—starting with .gitignore, a simple yet powerful tool for managing what gets tracked in your repositories.

Linux

SSH Connection Manager in Command Line

Managing multiple SSH connections and hosts can sometimes be problematic. In this post, I will show how you can easily save multiple connections directly in the terminal (Linux)...

PowerShell

PowerShell - Generate Unique UPN

In this short post I will share two new cmdlets I have developed to generate forest wide unique UPN handling the different edge cases.