All things Cloud, by Matt Hansen.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFor the money, it’s hard to beat the Azure VPN Gateway. Until recently though, Point-to-Site VPNs were a bit clunky because they needed mutual certificate authentication. It wasn’t bad, but it certainly wasn’t good. Thankfully, Microsoft now allows RADIUS backed authentication. This post is how you impliment said configuration. To start off, here is my […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesAzure storage is great. Good thought to open on right? Of course! This year Azure graced us with the ability to (preview) the new Azure Archive Storage. Obviously this is enticing, especially at it’s (current) $0.0018/GB price point. For more cost informaiton on Azure Archive Storage you can visit the link below. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/ Now this […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have an environment that heavily leverages DFS, and recently one of the replication member servers had to be restored from a VEEAM backup. Typically VEEAM is great and doesn’t cause any issues, in this case though DFS completely broke. I got a TON of SCOM alerts, and the event log was littered with them […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesEveryone’s familiar by now with reasons why you want to use Server Core Edition for things like IIS, DNS, etc. In a recent project I found an interesting scenario where my GUI management server couldn’t connect remotely to the IIS instance that I was running on Server 2016 Core. There are a few oddities, so […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack in the classic portal with backup services it was an easy fix. Simply change the settings value of storage replication type. I’ve recently started moving my workloads to recovery serveries vaults in ARM, and noticed something peculiar. By default, the storage replication type of the vault is GRS. If your needs require geographically […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe concept of a full-proxy architecture, along with SSL Bridging has seemed to confuse a good majority of people to whom I’ve attempted to explain. In that light, here we go. I could write a long drawn-out explanation of this process (and will, if requested) but most folks reading this want a quick answer. Let’s […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve seen this a few times now, sometimes with standalone WSUS but mostly with SCCM running a software update point. Every time SCCM does an update synchronization – the app pool crashes. If it runs again it will typically complete, but it’s still rather annoying especially if you have the SCOM management pack for IIS […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m not sure why I have a hard time remembering which way the numeric representation goes – but here it is. Severity: Informational = 0 Warning = 1 Critical =2 Priority: Low = 0 Medium = 1 High = 2 Thanks!
Reading Time: 2 minutesSymantec Endpoint Protection has quite a hold on the Anti-Virus market share. Many have environments where it’s used, and may not be the administrators or even able to view data from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager. In light of that, I’ve written a PowerShell script to check the last update time for SEP definitions that […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’ve ever added hosts to an SCVMM instance you’ll know that there’s seeminly no easy way to move the newly imported VMs from those hosts into SCVMM clouds. I’ve found the best way to do this is by using the SCVMM command-line interface, which unfortunately has a few quirks. Set-SCVirtualMachine is the command you’ll […]
