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I have moved my blog to GitHub pages now, I will mostly be posting stuff there now. Posting about PowerShell, Azure, C# etc.

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Test connectivity via a specific network interface

Recently while working on a Private cloud implementation, I came across a scenario where I needed to test connectivity of a node to the AD/DNS via multiple network adapters.  Many of us would know that having multiple network routes is usually done to take care of redundancy. So that if a network adapter goes down, one can use the other network interface to reach out to the node. In order to make it easy for everyone to follow along, below is an analogy for the above scenario: My laptop has multiple network adapters (say Wi-Fi and Ethernet) connected to the same network. Now how do I test connectivity to a Server on the network only over say Wi-Fi network adapter?

PowerShell + SCCM : Run CM cmdlets remotely

Today I saw a tweet about using implicit remoting to load the Configuration Manager on my machine by Justin Mathews . It caught my eye as I have never really tried it, but theoretically it can be done. Note - The second tweet says "Cannot find a provider with the name CMSite", resolution to which is in the Troubleshooting section at the end.

Azure DevOps Tips & Tricks - Find private REST APIs

Original source -  Azure DevOps Tip - Find private APIs Often working with Azure DevOps, I hit a wall trying to automate some tasks but there are no REST API's made public yet. It was one of those task of automating creation of Environments in multi-stage YAML based pipelines in AzDO. Quick research reveals that this has been requested in uservoice  (please upvote). Let's see one of the very simple ways to discover some of these APIs.