Category: devops
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Reliable Remote Desktop at Home with Tailscale and Guacamole
Set up browser-based remote desktop to any machine on your home network using Tailscale mesh VPN and Apache Guacamole. No port forwarding, no TeamViewer lockouts, no Chrome dependency. Works across Windows, Linux, and Docker containers from a single URL.
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How I Automated Google Analytics So AI Can Read My Data and Make SEO Decisions
Google Analytics is a dashboard you click through. You log in, navigate to reports, filter by organic traffic, export CSVs, manually compare last month to this month. It takes 10 minutes to answer one question. Across 12 properties, that’s an hour of clicking.
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Web Deploy IIS Authentication Troubleshooting – Fix ‘User Unauthenticated’ Errors
Step-by-step guide to diagnosing and fixing Web Deploy authentication failures on IIS. Covers WMSVC pass-through auth, IIS Manager Permissions, delegation rules, and creating local IIS Manager users as a workaround.
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From Polling Scripts to On‑Box Azure DevOps Deployments for IIS
TL;DR: We replaced a custom polling script (using PAT + REST) with a clean Azure DevOps YAML pipeline that builds a stamped index.html and push-deploys directly on the IIS server via a self-hosted agent. We also added a quick “bogus deploy” smoke test to validate write access without touching artifacts. Why We Changed We originally…