VoIP.ms DDoS Outage: What You Can Do
Internet Telephony provider VoIP.ms has been the subject of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for several days. The attack has knocked most of their services offline, including phone, …
Test Synology DS Cam Android App
I’m testing Synology Surveillance Station on an older DS214se running DSM 6.2.4-255556. I wanted to see how the remote view app works on Android. The documentation is thin but I …
Zoom Blocked by Non-Existent Proxy
A user was unable to connect to a Zoom call. It would spin trying to connect for quite a while, then finally display a certificate error:
PowerShell Can’t Write Event after Creating Custom Source
On Server 2016, if you use create a new event log source as follows, with Application unquoted as shown in the official documentation here: New-EventLog –LogName Application –Source “IT Script” …
Http 500.19 Error after Removing WSUS
Today I removed WSUS from a 2016 Essentials server. The RWW web site and the Remote Desktop Gateway stopped working. Hours later, I finally found this article with the explanation …
Office 16 Licensing Error after Upgrade to E3
A user upgraded from Microsoft 365 Business Standard to Office 365 E3. Some months later, Office 16 started raising subscription errors (event 2011): Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft Office 16 …
Shared Printer Not Found by Zebra Browser Print
A customer has a Zebra GX420T printer connected via USB to a desktop computer. On that computer, the Browser Print application lets them print from their custom app.
Windows Essentials Client Restore Errors 10060, 0x8007003B
In testing an Essentials Client Restore under Hyper-V, the restore kept failing. It would show the server name, prompt for the username and password, but then it would fail with …
Server 2016 Hyper-V Restore Test
This is arguably the most boring post I’ve ever written. No graphics, lots of references to my own unique environment. But this is the real world of backup and recovery …
Restore Server to Desktop – 2021 Edition
Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went …