Cloudflare recently shared how it manages its huge global fleet with SaltStack (Salt). They discussed the engineering tasks ...

Support will continue for the end point management tool, but Intune will receive ‘all future investments and innovation’ going forward, Microsoft says. Configuration Manager will move to an annual ...

Linux configuration can be tricky for new Linux admins. Editing the main config file directly often works, until an upgrade overwrites your changes or a typo takes down a service. That's where .d ...

Abstract: Complex networks are becoming more complex because of the use of many components with diverse technologies. In fact, manual configuration that makes each component interoperable has breed ...

Repeated prompts to enter your Git username and password are a frustrating annoyance developers can live without. Unfortunately, if your Git installation has not been configured to use a credential ...

Microsoft asked customers this week to disregard incorrect Windows Firewall errors that appear after rebooting their systems following the installation of the June 2025 preview update. These warnings ...

The introduction of Spring annotations such as @Bean and @Component, which greatly simplify how to provision and autowire Spring managed beans, triggered a mass exodus from XML-based Spring ...

Abstract: As the scale of networks continues to expand, the automated management of network device parameters becomes increasingly important. This paper proposes a configuration tree-based framework ...

A trio of cloud industry leaders have launched a new company with the mission of modernizing software configuration data management. That event demonstrated that software is now critical ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...