AWS Loft Bucharest 2019
November brings the AWS Loft Bucharest event to Romania! The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, attend educational..
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AWS
Start Your A.I. Journey With AWS @ PentaBAR #53
After my first PentaBAR meetup in September, I’m co-presenting again with Catalin Dumitras from Pentalog, this time in Brasov!
AWS Loft Kiev 2019
In October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.
Cloud Infrastructure for NGOs - TechSoup Webinar
On October 10, I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of TechSoup Romania. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010…
SQLSaturday 915 - Bucharest 2019
Yesterday I had a presentation on Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services at SQLSaturday 915 Bucharest.
AWSome Day Bucharest 2019
On the 12th of March, AWS together with our local partner Bittnet is organizing the 4th edition of the AWSome Day event in Bucharest..
New year, new challenges
Over the summer I’ve been working on updating the Exchange Server on AWS quickstart. Quick Starts are built by AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Service...
The updated Exchange Server on AWS QuickStart published!
Over the summer I’ve been working on updating the Exchange Server on AWS quickstart. Quick Starts are built by AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Service...
Transylvania Cloud Meetup session
In December I’m heading to my home country Romania to help with a hackathon that and talk about Infrastructure as Code and ..
Presenting at the upcoming AWS Pop-Up Loft Stockholm
AWS is hosting a Pop-up Loft in Stockholm between in October-November, places where developers and IT professionals can attend educational sessions, work on..
How to Deploy Local Administrator Password Solution with AWS Microsoft AD
Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) from Microsoft simplifies password management by allowing organizations to use Active Directory (AD) to store un...
How to copy AMI permissions
Copying AMIs across regions is easy, but how do you copy permissions as well?
Programmatically list AWS services
Someone recently asked about the best way to built an UI on top of the AWS APIs without hardcoding the services
Oneliners – AWS RDS get latest restorable time
This is a one line AWS CLI command to get the latest restorable time for an AWS RDS Instance. aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier "yourDB...
AWS Certified! Tips & tricks
Today I passed my first AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam
AWS getVPCnameById
I was recently looking at retrieving a VPC’s Name based on its id. Here is the Python/Boto3 implementation from boto3.session import Session session = Sessi...
Uncategorized
AWS Assume role [Powershell]
This is a handy 2 lines Powershell script to assume a role in AWS, create temporary credentials and run another command using the assumed roles: $Response =...
Exporting unexportable certificates
You sometimes run into cases where a certificate was imported by another sysadmin and he forgot to check the option to export the private key. If you want to...
Reviewed Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
A month ago I was approached by Packtpub to review a book for them
Microsoft Summit 2013 – get discount codes from ITSpark
Why you should attend Microsoft Summit 2013
Microsoft Private Cloud TechTalk
A few days before leaving overseas I was invited to talk about Private Cloud concepts with Tudy Damian (MVP, Virtualization) and Adrian Stoian (MVP, Syste...
Google Apps certified!
This week was an exceptional good week, but the the most important accomplishment is that I managed to pass my Google Apps certification exam and I’m now a G...
ITCamp 2011
Last week I attended ITCamp 2011 a premium conference held in Cluj-Napoca and organized by 2 communities: ITSpark and CodeCamp. Now that I have a bit more ti...
Connection Day – Cluj-Napoca
Tomorrow I will be hosting a presentation and a workshop with fellow ITSpark members Chris, Cosmin and Tudy. As Tudy has already blogged, the event is part ...
Strange errors in SCCM 2007
Right after New Years Eve I had to update some packages/advertisements for some new software. That was easy, but the problem was that none of the clients...
presentation
UBB Hacks for Good - 2020 edition!
I’m super excited to be participating in the panel jury for the 2020 edition of UBB Hacks for Good
Migrating SQL Server to AWS webinar
I’m super excited to do my second webinar with PASS, the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.
VMware vForum Romania 2019
On Wednesday I presented at VMware vForum Romania 2019 where I talked about Accelerating your cloud migration
Well Architected @ Bucharest Loft
I couldn’t help myself and signed up to deliver two sessions and did a repeat of my CDK workshop I did in Kiev.
Start Your A.I. Journey With AWS @ PentaBAR #53
After my first PentaBAR meetup in September, I’m co-presenting again with Catalin Dumitras from Pentalog, this time in Brasov!
Cloud Infrastructure for NGOs - TechSoup Webinar
On October 10, I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of TechSoup Romania. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010…
SQLSaturday 915 - Bucharest 2019
Yesterday I had a presentation on Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services at SQLSaturday 915 Bucharest.
Serverless CI/CD pipelines for your DevOps needs @ PentaBAR #31
Together with Catalin Dumitras from Pentalog I presented at the PentaBAR #31 meetup in Iasi….
Well Architected Best Practices - Transylvania Cloud meetup
On Monday I attended the meetup organized by Transilvania Cloud discussing best practices when designing….
Technical
Upgrading InfoStage Director 7
In this article I will explain the steps needed to upgrade EVault Director (the actual backup software), EVault Reports and Windows CentralControl.
Migrating EVault Web CentralControl
In my previous article I described the steps to upgrade a 32 bit Web Central Control installation to version 7
Upgrading Evault to version 7
I’ve recently had the opportunity to upgrade an Evault production infrastructure and thought I might share how the process went.
Installing SharePoint 2010
I recently published an article on ITSpark about installing SharePoint 2010 on SQL Server 2012. The article is in Romanian and can be read here.
Fix Mac OS X not booting PGP
Last week I got the chance to brush my Mac skills and encountered the following problem. When using Mac OS X 10.6.* and PGP versions prior to 10.1.2 ...
Citrix
Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp is out!
PacktPub approached me in the spring of 2015 to write a Citrix book
Application deployment in XenMobile
Deploying an application using XenMobile is very easy. The following post will illustrate the steps needed to deploy LastPass
XenMobile 8 installation step by step
Lately I’ve had a particular interest in the MDM (mobile device management) scene where XenMobile (the rebranded Zenprise ) is one of the leaders
Microsoft
SharePoint permission problem Read Contributor permissions
I recently had the chance to work on a problem concerning permission to access a specific web page in SharePoint 2010. The error message that almost ...
Deploying Adobe Reader with Windows Intune
The other day Adobe just released an update to their flagship product Adobe Reader. While I quickly updated my installation, I decided to try the new Soft...
events
Going to Microsoft Summit 2014
Have just received confirmation from my employer that I will be able to participate at this year’s Microsoft Summit 2014. Microsoft Summit, cu...
ITCamp 2013 – my thoughts
Taking advantage of the fact that Endava was a platinum sponsor, I couldn’t pass the opportunity to attend this years’ ITCamp.
video
AWS Loft Bucharest 2019
November brings the AWS Loft Bucharest event to Romania! The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, attend educational..
Cloud Infrastructure for NGOs - TechSoup Webinar
On October 10, I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of TechSoup Romania. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010…
SCCM
SCCM 2007 OSD Issue
Every since I installed SCCM 2007 in the network I manage, I wanted to test the Operating System Deployment (OSD) because it’s much more flexible th...
Google Apps
Google Apps alias stuck at activate
The other day I combined 2 of my Google Apps domains by adding the second as a domain alias. The problem was that the alias appeared to be stuck and the only...
Personal
Reading books once more!
After reading Julien Smith’s post How To Read a Book a Week , I was inspired by his commitment to read one book each week and thought I was a great idea. ...
Server 2012
Using Group Managed Service Accounts
Windows Server 2012 comes with group managed service accounts, an improved version of the original MSA. Ever since Windows Server 2008 R2 ..
SQL 2008
Using Group Managed Service Accounts
Windows Server 2012 comes with group managed service accounts, an improved version of the original MSA. Ever since Windows Server 2008 R2 ..
XenMobile
Application deployment in XenMobile
Deploying an application using XenMobile is very easy. The following post will illustrate the steps needed to deploy LastPass
Blackberry
Invalid Master Key in BES 5.0
Had an interesting problem when trying to add a new Enterprise CAL key to a BES 5.0.3 where I would see the Invalid master key error.
3PAR
Moving virtual volume between remote copy groups (3PAR)
Moving a 3PAR virtual volume between two remote groups is a scenario
loft
AWS Loft Kiev 2019
In October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.
Kiev
AWS Loft Kiev 2019
In October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.
developers
AWS Loft Kiev 2019
In October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.
aws
AWS Container Hero - Vlad Ionescu
It is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania.
container
AWS Container Hero - Vlad Ionescu
It is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania.
hero
AWS Container Hero - Vlad Ionescu
It is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania.