We had a client that wanted to separate a very large Excel list of about 3000 rows into groups of 100 so that they could print off wrote lists for about thirty volunteers. We didn’t have a good answer to this and then one of our in-house text came up Read more…
As soon as you open comments to the entire Internet, you have problems. It’s important to create a community and to keep your visitors engaged. However, wide open comments leads to bots and professional promoters creating thousands of garbage comments with links back to unscrupulous websites. One way to block Read more…
We’ve recently had a client who was breached because a long-term brute force spray password attack eventually correctly guessed and administrators password. This breach should have been avoided by the company ensuring that all of its users were using multi factor authentication. By default new accounts are required to have Read more…
Windows PowerShell gets better all the time and Microsoft offers a major new release about every three years. Here are all of the things you need to know about the version of PowerShell. Command To Show Current Version of PowerShell You can use the following command in PowerShell to display Read more…
Do you need to create a list table showing the size of each user’s recycle bin and then a total of all the disk space used on Recycle Bins? Well if so, this is the article for you! PowerShell Listing The Size of Each Users Recycle Bin in a Table Read more…
Is your PowerShell command stuck? Is it just sitting on the screen doing nothing? Let’s figure out why it’s doing that, or more correctly, why it’s not doing what you expect. We recently needed to export some metadata from a OneDrive account one of our clients called by I needed Read more…
Do you need to add high availability to your small business file servers or virtual machines? Perhaps you just need to make a SQL server cluster. Regardless this video tutorial provides easy step by step instruction of how to create a Windows Failover Cluster. 0:00 Introduction0:20 What is a File Read more…
Recently we were changing the Windows Failover Cluster Windows File Share Witness used for quorum on a two node cluster. Adding the new File Share Witness was straight forward (as we explained in THIS article and video), but trying to remove the old Cluster File Share Witness resulted in an Read more…
We had a client who was being Brute Force Attacked and we wanted to know if any of the usernames that were being tried, actually existed in their active directory. They had a substantial active directory with dozens and dozens of organizational units so browsing through them manually, or running Read more…
Recently we were trying to upgrade from Windows 11 22H2 to Windows 11 23H2, but could not find KB5027397 in WSUS. The problem is KB5027397 doesn’t exist in WSUS . At least if you do a search for KB5027397 it does not return any results in WSUS, as shown in Read more…
When you change the computer name field for a virtual machine (VM) in VMware Cloud Director, it affects the guest operating system’s identification on the network. However, it is important to note: To rename a VM in VMware Cloud Director, just: Put simply, while the computer name change affects network Read more…
Recently one of our technicians asked about the requirement to shut down a virtual machine running on Hyper-V before expanding it hard disk. Put simply, the answer is if it is a newer virtual machine you can expand the virtual hard disk without shutting down the vm first: Put technically Read more…
You may have heard that both DDR5 and DDR4 both use 288 pin SO-DIMM’s (in laptops), so your forgiven if you think DDR5 is backwards compatible with DDR4. As you can see in the 50 second video at the bottom on this article, DDR4 and DDR5 are not compatible. Whats Read more…
Volume shadow copies are used to take a snapshot of how a disk volume was at a particular point in time. Their management is mostly automated and usually works well without intervention, But there are times in which shadow copies are consuming a fair amount of space and you can’t Read more…
After some playing around, Googling and talking to Microsoft we verified that there is not a built-in feature to add a description or note directly to an Azure VM. However, you can easily use Azure Tags to add metadata to your Azure resources, including VMs: Note that each resource in Read more…
What is a Google Analytics ID? A Google Analytics tracking ID is a unique identifier used by Google’s analytics service to distinguish your website’s traffic (or mobile app, or other things Google calls a “property”) from others. When you set up a Google Analytics account for your website, a tracking Read more…