AWT Tech Notes

Why? A client had a requirement for a Windows service to swap over its public IP to essentially change its outbound IP address at will, without impacting any existing connections or connectivity. This posed an interesting challenge, as essentially the idea would be to swap to the ‘next IP address’ in a list of already… Read More »Swapping Between Multiple Bound IPs with PowerShell

Cloning NSGs Recently, we were cloning a few virtual machines from test to production in Azure. One of the pain points while doing this with just NSGs (and without Network Manager) is cloning specific firewall rules to apply to your brand new NSG. PowerShell Performing this manually is a very annoying task. Through the magic… Read More »Cloning Azure Network Security Groups with PowerShell

What is an Anti-Feature? In the world of Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the term ‘anti-feature’ has emerged as a significant point of discussion. An anti-feature, simply put, is a feature in a software or service that doesn’t benefit the client but instead serves the interests of the provider or vendors. These features often lock users… Read More »Avoiding Anti-Features in IT Solutions

Allwire has always fancied itself as an infrastructure company with a development problem; as ex-Microsofties no amount of infrastructure projects will ever diminish our love of code. In April of 2023, OpenAI selected us to be part of the first round of ChatGPT plugin developers, we faced a daunting task. Design a plugin in 3… Read More »Talk with Vox

Several weeks ago, Allwire was called in to remediate malware attack that had wreaked havoc on the clients network. As part of the recovery process, we rebuilt all of the workstations and servers in the zone. Although the DNS servers remained functional throughout this ordeal, they were still polluted with several stale DNS A records… Read More »Cleaning Up Windows DNS Zones in PowerShell