SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
Squid
Summary: How to install a squid proxy server.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 22 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is the article on installing and configuring squid on SLES11. The SLES 11 server is installed like this. Squid is in the support channel for SLES 11, so you'll also need to add the update repository to the server. See SLES Installation Update Server 11 on how to do that. The end situation will be two networks (private and public), with squid in the middle and protected by the firewall for the public network.
Use PowerShell with SharePoint Online Lists and Office DocProperties
Summary: The script below retrieves information from sharepoint online lists and puts that in prepared office files using docproperties.
Date: Around 2019
Refactor: 4 January 2025: Checked links and formatting.
SCOM Agent Installation on Red Hat and Solaris
Summary: Some tips and tricks for working with the SCOM agent on Red Hat and Solaris.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Even though the SCOM installation can be done automatically from the SCOM management consoles we experienced a few issue which I wanted to address. We got a few errors and I got some commands I want to share.
Solaris ZFS
Summary: How to with Solaris it's ZFS filesystem.
Date: Around 2012
Refactor: 16 April 2025: Checked links and formatting.
ZFS is becoming Solaris it's main file system. Nowadays, you cannot only use it for your data disks but also to boot from. Thanks to it's flexibility it is not only used in Solaris, but more and more used by major players in the market. According to the guys from Nexenta ZFS is already bigger than NetApp's OnTap and EMC's Isilon combined. This article shows hand-on use of ZFS on Solaris systems.
Note that all the commands listed here are tested on Solaris 10 update 8.