MeshCentral is a remote support OpenSource platform. It runs on Windows or Linux and needs to be self hosted. While…
The newest builds and updates can possibly break some Windows 10 network connections. Saw this specifically in a situation with…
ActiveDirectory, respective LDAP, has a result limit setting, MaxPageSize. Those are set by default to 1000 rows per query. This…
Windows 10 offers various ways to logon to your device. All of them have their pro’s and con’s. One thing…
Ever needed to run speed-tests between your VMware hosts? There is an CLI command iperf3 for this. This command runs…
Windows Print Server Aliases – what is that and why would you even need to think about it? For File-Servers,…
It happens that some programs alert you in Windows 10 about Publisher: Unknown and expect you to possibly provide administrative…
Having multiple applications that act as chat respective IM application but you want Microsoft TEAMS to be the default Instant…
The default PRTG sensor for VPN connections on a Cisco ASA has a limited of 50 users connected, actually less.…
RemoteApp and Desktop Connections are quite powerful. Still, it happens that RDS icons configured through your Windows Remote Desktop Application…
The Windows Search indexing is a solution from Microsoft that will index your file servers and their files full text…
Raspberry PI can read and write on a Microsoft SQL server database. In order to accomplish this you follow the…
Most file servers are configured to use the Windows internal shadow copies / VSS to allow administrators or even users…
There is a way to read out and process ALL alerts of your VMware environment using PowerShell and reporting the…
APC network cards – or the NIC of many APC devices like UPS and A/C – possibly even NetBotz (APC…
Excel has a feature called Custom Views (ribbon VIEW / CUSTOM VIEW) that is very little known. This feature actually…
This is a PRTG 911 calls sensor script that I wrote a long time ago – it seems like there…
One of the challenges especially with SQL Express is that you need to enable some protocols on the network level…
An issue or question I see again and again – proper RADIUS logging with Microsoft NPS / Network Policy Server.…
Today we look at independent backup networks especially in regards to LTO 7 and VMware ESX hosts. Be aware –…
If you try to PXE boot a VMware guest system that e.g. uses WDS / Windows Deployment Services or similar,…
File shares are something every IT professional will work with. Many companies have way to complicated and unstructured network file…
SMBv1 is an insecure protocol that you should not use if by any means possible. Windows 10 has SMBv1 disabled…
If you have a virtual system, like VMware, and a storage device behind it you might be able to mirror…
The following script will read through your current Active Directory and filter for user accounts with the following specific conditions:…
Microsoft Office has since a very long time a bug when it comes to copied data from Excel that you…
One of the challenges with DFS is to monitor the DFS replication backlog. There are various scripts out there to…
Print servers need to backed up. This is because of two main reasons. One is that users heavily depend on…
Today’s blog is about “Solution for VSS exceptions with VMware guests / VM tools” and was initially posted by myself…
The following article was originally posted here by myself: https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/79665-sql-database-backup-monitoring SQL backups and their monitoring is one of the most important…