With the abundance of malware and ransomware it’s absolutely necessary that we take the time to examine our virtualization host and backup structures. Volume Shadow Copies Obviously not a “backup” Most ransomware kills all shadow copies available on a system Backup to Disk/NAS/SAN Disk Rotated NAS/SAN needs to be streamed […]
We went to DCPromo a newly stood up Windows Server 2019 VM into an existing domain and it would not let us do so. Suffice it to say, we needed to migrate File Replication Service (FRS) to Distributed File System Replication (DFSR). The process is actually quite simple so long […]
One of the lessons the school of hard knocks taught us was to be ready for anything. _Anything_ One client space had such a messed up HVAC system that the return air system, which is in the suspended ceiling, didn’t work because most of the vent runs up there were […]
We went to run a DCPromo on a temporary DC to remove it from a domain and received the following error: Active Directory Domain Services Installation Wizard The operation failed because: Active Directory Domain Services could not transfer the remaining data in directory partition DC=ForestDNSZones,DC=DOMAIN,DC=LOCAL to Active Directory Domain Controller […]
A quick at-a-glance way to get an idea of just how much traffic is flowing in an Azure Web App is to pin the statistics to the Dashboard. Azure Web App: Server requests statistics To do so is a fairly simple process. Log on to the Azure Portal Click on […]
When setting up the Azure Web App for WordPress we had already set up the DNS A and TXT records needed to get the custom domain URL going. Or so we thought. Domain ownership: To verify domain ownership create TXT and A records with your DNS provider using the configuration […]
We use Open Live Writer (OLW) to write our blog posts. It’s been our go-to utility for a very long time. Recently, the Blogger backend had some changes that somehow block the ability to post images via OLW. So, one of our To Do List items that was not quite […]