In this series of posts I’m revisiting an answer to a question that appeared on Server Fault way back in 2011. I’m pleased to say that it’s been viewed over 100,000 …
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I talked previously about using Chocolatey for home use. It makes building a PC at home nice, simple and fast. It makes supporting non-technical friends and family nice and easy, ensuring you can …
Introduction
So I think a lot of us take backups for granted. It's one of those things you look at once and then tend to not worry about too much. As long as its working, why worry?Except… if …
Introduction
One of the new features in Windows 10 1803 is the ability for "local Active Directory" Domain joined workstations to allow users to reset their password from the login screen. This was …Finally. Finishing up after Part 1 and Part 2, this is the end of my updated thoughts on an old Server Fault post with some final thoughts on reducing risks in the future.
Reducing the risk in the …
Following on from Part 1 of my revision of an old Server Fault post, we will continue on to look at remediation after an intrusion.
(Part 3 available here)
Understand the problem fully:
- Do NOT put …
Introduction
One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently. This applies at work when building servers …
I’m currently reading /r/sysadmin on reddit at the moment, specifically this post from someone ranting that a user complain that “malware spam e-mail” went to their mail …
One of the things I’m working on at the moment is moving the remainder of our Exchange organisation over to Office 365 / Exchange Online.
We moved the bulk of our accounts some time ago; …