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Unless you deal with certificates frequently, they can be quite confusing. This article is intended to help our technicians renew just simple self signed certificates on IIS web servers and we thought you would be interested in it too. Make sure you click on the screenshots to expand them. STEP Read more…
Renewing certificates is always problematic for those who don’t deal with SSL certs all the time. This very short step by step instruction should get you through it without too much problem. Make sure you click on the screenshots to expand them. STEP 1- Generate an SSL Certificate Renewal CSR Read more…
If you have ever performed a restore of an old SQL database you may have found yourself trying to figure out what version of SQL Server it was running on. This is because you cannot directly attach an .MDF file: In our case the SQL server that was in use Read more…
If you open up File Explorer (aka, COMPUTER, MY COMPUTER) and find that your C: drive has one or more folders that appear to be named just random letters and numbers, this is the article for you: Typically these are the residue leftover from various updates and upgrades. The question Read more…
We recently found a few servers were having problems seeing other servers and set out to figure out why. Communication was fine in one direction but not the other (i.e. SERVER1 could talk to SERVER2, but SERVER2 could not talk to SERVER1). When we say “talk” we mean we could Read more…
If you are a Windows tech, you will run into Apache web server from time to time and likely be frustrated that it does not have even a basic GUI (by default) to manage it. We recently had a client go through a security penetration test with an audit firm, Read more…
In this short Azure tutorial we demonstrate how to remove static addresses from Azure virtual machines. In particular, we show how to remove static public IP addresses. 0:00 Introduction0:24 Why Remove Public IP Addresses0:44 How To Remove Public IP Address in Azure2:13 Outro Remember that Microsoft charges for static ip 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…