Installing RSAT in 1909+ Online or Offline
In previous versions of Windows and early versions of Windows 10 RSAT was installed via an update package or .msu file. Recent versions of Windows 10/11 have...
In previous versions of Windows and early versions of Windows 10 RSAT was installed via an update package or .msu file. Recent versions of Windows 10/11 have...
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
I needed to find all of the self-signed certificates on my machine so I whipped up a tiny function to do it. The largest caveat is the inability to distingui...
I was having issues with emails for my various backup scripts not sending emails with my submodule, I was seeing hit or miss results but I mostly disregarded...
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
Updated on 2022-02-08 for Send-MailMessage issue
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
I was having issues with emails for my various backup scripts not sending emails with my submodule, I was seeing hit or miss results but I mostly disregarded...
I have not written a full post on how I use Obsidian yet but I talked about it in the first post here. I plan to write more in the future but for the mean ti...
Reasons I used to host a personal Bookstack and still host one for r/Techsupport but I realized that putting all of my notes into a public cloud was a waste ...
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
I use FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core) as my backup destination for everything in my lab, I push these backups offsite to Backblaze on a schedule using Cloud Sync...
One of the most ubiquitous actions a sysadmin does is accepting the untrusted certificates we are presented with daily when opening RDP to a server. I believ...
The CA is an incredibly important piece of infrastructure, especially once you start issuing your own certificates. We are pushing our code signing certs, sm...
RedHat and its derivatives can utilize special configuration files called “Kickstart files” to make installation automated and repeatable. I wanted to explor...
My current project is moving off CentOS 7 to RHEL 8. I am doing this partly due to the deprecation of CentOS 8 into Stream but also I want to redo everything...
Reasons I used to host a personal Bookstack and still host one for r/Techsupport but I realized that putting all of my notes into a public cloud was a waste ...
I use FreeNAS (now TrueNAS Core) as my backup destination for everything in my lab, I push these backups offsite to Backblaze on a schedule using Cloud Sync...
I want to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for my homelab, I am currently on CentOS 7 and due to the CentOS 8/Stream shennanigans I believe that just mi...
While the default code blocks are OK in this theme (Minimal Mistakes) I wanted something more “me” that blended better into the Dark skin. The official docs ...
DNS backups are a bit complicated, you need to backup and restore each zone individually with files that are in a static location in System32. Most sources I...
Backing up a DHCP server is simple using the cmdlets Backup-DhcpServer and Restore-DhcpServer. There are a couple gotchas and while it is not as directory sp...
The vast majority of sources I checked while trying to re-work our existing backups use the same basic script that invoke wbadmin.exe to initiate an image of...
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
I use Cloud Sync Tasks in TrueNAS to push data offsite into Backblaze, through TrueNAS you can push or pull data as needed but in a DR scenario you may not h...
I was troubleshooting a server that was not liking RDP, so I was interacting with it via the XenCenter console. For some reason this server (Server 2016) kep...
Microsoft is very keen on pushing OneDrive, anyone who has stood up a Windows 10/11 workstation recently knows that.
When moving from on-prem to 365 you may be left with a .local TLD in addition to a proper public .com or whatever domain. When making a new user in AD you wi...
When moving from on-prem to 365 you may be left with a .local TLD in addition to a proper public .com or whatever domain. When making a new user in AD you wi...
While using Solus I found some apps that were not in the repos like Obisidian and Tabby. I stumbled upon this post on the Solus forums that talked about usin...
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
I updated my XCP-NG host back in January, after those updates none of my Windows Server VMs would boot back up with the error FAILED_TO_START_EMULATOR. I dug...
My current project is moving off CentOS 7 to RHEL 8. I am doing this partly due to the deprecation of CentOS 8 into Stream but also I want to redo everything...
In previous versions of Windows and early versions of Windows 10 RSAT was installed via an update package or .msu file. Recent versions of Windows 10/11 have...