I couple of years ago (back in 2010) I assembled a small document on how to use OpenSSL to create and convert X.509 certificates so Windows can properly recognise and […]
If you are running NSX-V in a production environment it is crucial to have recent backups of NSX manager available. The NSX Manager backup settings can be configured either through […]
In this post I would like to present you a way of how to easily perform assertions like error checking and result validation with PowerShell based on an idea of the Microsoft Code Contracts library. We at d-fens spend quite some time writing PowerShell scripts that automate and integrate various backend systems where unforeseen events not only happen but are […]
Recently I ran into a strange error when working on an ODataController. On several occasions (especially on CREATE or UPDATE operations) we do not want to return the actual underlying entity of the controller, but instead would like to return an entity that can be used for synchronisation such as a Job. So instead of doing something like this and […]