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Byron Pate

Seasoned technical leader helping businesses securely and efficiently leverage technology. With a focus on security and cloud, I’ve helped companies apply the latest cloud technologies and also minimize risk. I’m passionate about architecting solutions that drive business value but are also secure, highly available, and manageable. 

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IIS7 Error – Unknown: The object identifier does not represent a valid object

Unknown: The object identifier does not represent a valid object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800710D8) While testing an IIS automated build, I noticed the following...

Octopus Deploy 2.0 Review

Octopus Deploy 2.0 Review One of the tools that I got involved with this year was Octopus Deploy. Initially, I had my doubts about...

Modern Screen Scraping With HtmlAgilityPack

Modern Screen Scraping With HtmlAgilityPack In the early days of the Internet, before web services were as common as Starbucks, one of the few...

Managing User Rights in Powershell

Managing User Rights Assignments in Powershell Windows User Rights, also known as Windows Privileges, are traditionally managed via GPO or in the simplest of...

Siteminder CSS Protection

For Siteminder Administrators an often overlooked functionality is the built in Cross Site Scripting and SQL Injection protection. Out of the box these settings...

Custom DSC Resource Schema

Windows Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC) allows you to build custom resources to implement new functionality. When creating my first custom resource I stumbled...

Windows Powershell Desired State Configuration

With the release of Powershell 4.0, we can now leverage Powershell DSC across Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2. This is a pretty good...

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