First Attempt at using ChatGPT for Batch Scripting
Today I needed a quick Windows batch script to check the percentage free space on drive E: and write an event to the event log if it was below 15%. …
VSS CreateTimeout and the Persistence of a Typo
I’ve got a recurring VSS warning 8229 on a Server 2016 machine: “A VSS writer has rejected an event with error 0x800423f2, The writer’s timeout expired between the Freeze and …
Allow Synology Active Backup for Business to Access Hyper-V
This has tripped me up twice, so time to blog it. Synology has an article on setting up Hyper-V for access from Synology:
Unbox a ROK
Windows Server 2022 Essentials is sold only as a Reseller Option Kit (ROK). While I understand that this is a kind of vendor-specific OEM product, I wasn’t sure what to …
Server Essentials 2022 Not Available as Volume License
In a development that still has me scratching my head, I learned today that the current version of Windows Server Essentials 2022 is not available from the Volume License Service …
Azure Tiers and Synology Hyper Backup
I’m testing using Hyper Backup on a Synology NAS to back up to Azure storage. There are tons of articles about this online, but no one seems to be addressing …
Revive a Dead UniFi USG
You’re streaming a movie and your Internet dies. You dink around until you’ve confirm that it’s not the fiber modem; it’s the trusty UniFi USG: there are some lights flashing …
Visual Studio 2010 Shell Required by VB6
Although they haven’t changed in years, I’m still responsible for a couple Visual Basic 6 apps. My development environment worked great under Windows 8.1, but now that 8.1 is out …
Windows Image Restore Woes
Man it is hard to restore a computer backup from a Windows Backup image. Especially if you are trying to restore to a new Hyper-V virtual machine. Here are a …
Recovery Failure after Full System Restore
I’m a big believer of getting image-based backups of all computers, including desktops. Unfortunately, after a full-system restore, it seems that more often than not, the machine fails to boot.