After switching to Cloudflare for DNS and caching (CDN), we’ve discovered that Cloudflare sometimes requests connections so fast that OpenLiteSpeed servers (versions 1.7.17 and 1.7.18) block them. The Cloudflare IPs …
I posted earlier about using Azure blob storage for Hyper Backup. I initially set it up with Cool tier storage. After several months, I checked the costs by exporting one …
I’m running Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2022 host. I recently discovered that my largest virtual machine was in “differencing” mode, i.e. only writing changes to checkpoint AVHDX files, also …
I have some earlier versions of mcbsys.com online more or less for fun and as historical archives. Today I discovered that when you visit one of them, it redirects to …
Recently, a backup target on my Synology NAS went offline. I was afraid that the folder had been corrupted and deleted. It was not visible in File Manger. It was …
I recently set up SQL 2022 Express and needed to connect to it over the LAN using sqlcmd. I thought enabling TCP/IP in SQL Server 2022 Configuration Manger and opening …
I use a lot of batch jobs to copy backup data between Windows and NAS devices. I run the jobs as scheduled tasks. Getting this working smoothly is always a …
I blogged in 2019 about connecting 3CX running on Windows with an AT&T Flexible Reach SIP gateway. Now I’m moving that customer to a Grandstream UCM6301, currently running firmware 1.0.21.9, …
I manage a few HPE MicroServer Gen10 v2 servers with the iLO Enablement Package installed. Once while setting up a new server, I was suddenly no longer able to log …
If a user can’t access the internet because their DNS is static, you can’t connect remotely but you may be able to walk threm through entering a couple of commands …
