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 …
Veeam O365 Backup Skips Mailbox after v5 Upgrade
In February 2020, I had to stop using Veeam O365 Backup version 4 because I implemented Active Directory Security Defaults, which disabled the legacy authentication that Veeam O365 still relied …
Azure Blob Upload Failed – StatusCode 400
I use Azure blob storage to host a static web site. Today, as I do every week, I tried to upload an MP3 file using Azure Storage Explorer. The upload …
Can’t Uninstall SentinelOne EDR from SolarWinds RMM
I’ve been running a trial of SentinelOne EDR as integrated into SolarWinds (now N-central) RMM. It’s very easy to install—just set up a policy in the EDR dashboard, turn on …
Open Live Writer as a Window App
I explained in this post that I was forced to switch from Windows Live Writer to Open Live Writer to be able to connect to my OpenLiteSpeed web server. I …
Windows Live Writer Fails—Use Open Live Writer
I’ve recently moved this blog to an OpenLiteSpeed server, currently running version 1.6.19. I could not get my trusty Windows Live Writer to connect and upload a blog post—even after …
Zero Free Space on Linux Ubuntu under Hyper-V
Linux is hard. Stuff that is simple in Windows takes forever to figure out. In this case, I wanted to archive a Hyper-V virtual machine (export it and zip it …
Download Azure Windows VM to On-Premise Hyper-V
I had been running a Windows 2012 R2 demo server on Azure. I’m no longer using it but want to keep an on-premises copy for reference. I tried and failed …
Remove Extra DNS Listener Added by RRAS
On a Server 2016 Essentials computer, with a static address pool defined as explained in this post, the Routing and Remote Access service adds a second IP address to the …