Holy cow it has been a while since I made a post on here! Things have been crazy. Anywho, let’s talk address lists. So typically when users ask for “folders” in the global address list (GAL), even with Exchange Online, the first thing my brain goes to is public folders (PF). Now I got thinking, […]
By default, ADFS 3 (Windows Server 2012R2) only supports the seamless Single Sign-on (SSO) that we all expect with Internet Explorer browsers. Chrome can be enabled though by following these steps: 1. Login to your on-premises ADFS server and launch PowerShell as administrator. 2. Run the following command to see the current set of supported […]
After you have set up your ELK Stack and have been using it for a while (see Step-By-Step Install ELK Stack), a question should start creeping into your head; How do I stop my Elasticsearch Indexes from growing endlessly? Now you could occasionally go into Kibana and delete the indexes via the GUI found there, […]
Came in one morning to reports that nobody can access a particular Windows Server 2012R2 RDS server. To keep from being too wordy, I took some time and narrowed it down to just an issue with that one particular server, not RDS itself. As I kept digging I came across numerous instances of the following […]
Let me just start by saying that if there is one thing that has drove me crazy with Ubuntu Server 18.04, it is the fact that they went and changed how we configure network. It’s been the same for so long, it worked well, and now I’m just sounding like a user so I’m going […]
Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (aka ELK Stack) are very powerful tools for storing, analyzing, and visualizing log data in a centralized location. That being said, it can be quite the headache to actually get up and running if it is your first experience with it. Having spent the time pouring over the documentation provided by […]
As I’m sure many of you are well aware sometimes you need to pick and choose when to upgrade an application, particularly when you need to wait for application compatibility. This being the case, you want to be able to update your OS for vulnerabilities without breaking the applications that run on it that may […]
Typically when you provision your datastores for VMware, you will thin provision them. So let’s say you bring three VMFS5 datastores up to near capacity, but then you free up 30% on each datastore. Do you get that space back on your SAN automatically? If you are using VMFS6 datastores and have configured Automatic Space […]
After installing the the Windows Updates for July 2018, my Azure AD Connect servers started maxing out their CPU. Upon looking into it I came across the “microsoft.online.reporting.monitoringagent.startup” process, otherwise known as the “Azure AD Connect Health Sync Monitor” service, eating up nearly all of the machines CPU. I came across this Microsoft support article that […]
I come across this issue from time to time with new QuickBooks installations on RDS (terminal) servers. The fix is really quite simple, though for some reason I always seem to forget about it when deploying. Anywho, the symptom is every once in a while the QuickBooks application will require a Windows administrator to logon […]