I was going through some tests as the certificate for my web page is coming up for renewal and found an error. I’d misconfigured a thing, which would have caused […]
Down The Rabbit Hole – Networking (Part 1)
I’ve always been fascinated by networking and how all these computers, services and devices can talk to each other. It’s really the single most important component to, well, everything. Without […]
Periodic Update – May 19th, 2023
Am still working on my time management skills – would definitely like to write here more often. Been listening, via Audible, to the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and […]
Back to Basics – Windows Activation
When was the last time you had to think about activating Windows? Yea, it’s been awhile for me to. Three years ago I helped write a server provisioning process to […]
Automagical Backups with Azure Policy
This is a bit of a hasty post. Been a shortened week for me, and I’m heading out of town tomorrow for my brother’s wedding. But in conversation late today, […]
Troubleshooting – ASR and VSS
I was once asked in an interview years ago the following question: “User calls and says their printer isn’t working. How would you troubleshoot this?” It’s a silly question at […]
Week Ending April 14th, 2023
Couple weeks have gone by – my wife had a successful spinal surgery done last week, so not a lot of activity on my part as I made sure she […]
Week ending March 31st, 2023
End of the month, end of the quarter. This week I found myself in one of those situations where I couldn’t let a problem go. Numerous teams have Azure Site […]
What’s a Resource Group?
What is a Resource Group? What’s it used for? And what are the recommendations for usage? The first two questions are really rather easy. A Resource Group is merely a […]
Tinkering with Resilient Servers
This past week there were a few conversations about disaster recovery that I was involved in, and one of the interesting things I see all over is a lack of […]