BCP BCP and extreme weather events In this blog I discuss extreme weather events especially the current heatwave and why people exercising precautions are sensible, not snowflakes.
iDrac firmware introduces a security check that could trip you up A couple weeks ago, I had a dell server completely lock up on me, including the iDRAC which meant a 90 minute trip in to the datacentre to give the server a kick.
Disaster Recovery CDN's - the new internet based single point of failure? Fastly had a global CDN outage. With it went a large chunk of the internet. Why did this happen and why aren't companies including upstream providers in their DR and BCP plans?
vcentre Restoring VCentre from a file based backup Restoring VCentre from a VCentre backup due to cat induced corruption..... Yup, that's a thing that happened!
Security Solarwinds password issue - the intern did it. Solarwinds have decided that an intern was to blame for a bad 'backdoor' style password being used in their code. Here I explain why this simple statement shows that solarwinds have a lot of issues that need to be dealt with before I'll trust them again.
Security Microsoft have a big problem with their patching and QA processes Microsoft have admitted to a bug in a recent patch release but their documentation, download site and "fix" for the issue is a woeful mess.
vcentre Finding and fixing a broken cert for VCentre I recently needed to add a cert to a vcentre 7.0 enviroment to allow Skyline and this is normally a striaght forward process. Certainly, 7.0 is many times easier than previous
Disaster Recovery The difference between DR and BCP The differences between BCP and DR and very important to understand as each has an impact on a businesses ability to be able to run. Here I break down the key differences between the two.
vcentre Recovering a corrupt 6.7 VCentre after a storage outage A power outage on my NAS corrupted VCentre, this is how I recovered it.
Security Windows DNS flaw is serious - patch now. Hopefully, you have probably all heard of the "Sigred" vulnerbility in DNS, a security issue which has existed in DNS servers for 17 years. That means that if you run a
CentOS Exploring CentOS 8 In this blog I take my first steps into CentOS 8 exploring the version of OpenSSL and Apache as well as taking a quick look at the supported TLS versions and cockpit.
handy apps Handy Apps - Windows terminal Exploring the windows terminal and how much better than the cmd prompt it is.
vpn The problem with VPN's A review of some issues seen on our corporate VPN in light of covid-19 and remote working.
BCP BCP and Covid-19 A few thoughts on how business need to be aware of things that threaten the day to day running of the company including threats like Covid-19
Security LDAPS on Windows Servers As some are probably aware, Microsoft were planning on releasing a patch in March 2020 that will make some changes to LDAP. Since that announcecment MS have admitted that they have had a
Administrivia A little reflection on 2019 and onward, to 2020! A little reflection on 2019 and onward, to 2020!
NAS SMB3, NAS aliases and cross domain auth A look at authenticating to a NAS device over SMB2 and 3 using alias names.
Vmware ESXi capacity reports A couple months ago I had a need to generate a quick report on the status of ESXi, the reported needed to include CPU usage, RAM and a few other things and while
Windows 10 Handy Apps - Windows Terminal and the SSH Client Exploring the Windows terminal preview and the OpenSSH Client
Veeam Veeam Vanguard Summit 2019 – Backup and Replication v10 - file share backups Exploring Veeam Version 10 and its ability to perform backups of NAS shares.
HTTPS Google Chrome to deprecate TLS 1.0/1.1 Chrome plan to deprecate TLS 1.0 and 1.1 - this is what it means for you and here is how to test what version of TLS your website uses.
Docker Deploying Cachet - a status page clone Deploying cachet using docker-compose and adding in HTTPS certs for a complete, secure status page clone
Azure Creating a site to site VPN to Azure using Azure tools This article shows how to create a site to site VPN from on prem to Azure.
Handy Apps - RVTools RVTools seems to have fallen by the wayside in recent years, which is a huge shame, as it is still an amazing product that deserves more attention that it currently gets. I still
Are CafePress ignoring a data breach? I am a huge fan of Have I been pwned and signed up for breach notifications some years back. Yesterday, I got an email saying that my details were included in a breach