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Jan 14, 2020
in Development
4 min read

How to Search Splunk and Service-Now from your browser's search bar.

Introduction

So-

At least a few times a day, I find myself typing index=… into my browser's search bar, and expecting something to happen…

If I were to not catch my mistake and press enter, it would just bring me to a random google search result full of garbage results.

But- what if, you could actually search Splunk or other products directly from the address bar?

Well- it turns out, you can. And- below, I am going to show you how to do it.

This guide should work for either chrome or chromium(not tested). I am quite certain, it would also work for firefox or other browsers as well… but, I have not checked their documentation.

Nov 7, 2019
in Development
2 min read

Unknown error (0x80005000) – Getting AD Group Members

Earlier today, somebody asked me to help troubleshoot a piece of code which was randomly erroring out- with a very undescriptive exception, only containing Unknown error (0x80005000)

The code in question, was recurring over groups, to gather membership. After ruling out permissions issues, I decided to try and replicate what was happening.

Nov 7, 2019
in Development
2 min read

ASP.NET Core – Links don’t work from office/word document to SSO site.

Here is an unusual issue.

You build a website. Its address is say… https://mywebsite.com/

You email this link to somebody, and it works. You share this link in a chat. it works.

You put this link into a word or excel document, and all of a sudden, you see this:

Oct 7, 2019
in Development
8 min read

c# – Logging Directly to Splunk

This is a portion of my Logging libraries, to allow me to log data to Splunk using the HEC. The data being logged can either be a simple string, or a full-blown object. Code examples are below to also handle exporting Metrics to Splunk.