Use Batch Jobs and Scheduled Tasks to Copy Backups
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 …
AT&T Flexible Reach with a Grandstream UCM
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, …
HPE iLO Not Allowing Web Login
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 …
Reset DNS Server to DHCP from the Command Line
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 …
Get System Memory Details from a Command Prompt
Wow, learn something new every day. Need to match memory to what is already installed on your system? This article lists wmic commands for getting details from an administrative command …
N-able N-Sight Patch Management Does Not Fully Uninstall
I use N-able N-sight (formerly Hounddog, GFI, LogicNow, and Solarwinds) to monitor and patch Windows computers. One server was repeatedly failing to scan for patches. The solution is supposed to …
Event ID 7, The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block
This 2016 article by snorble is so helpful about how to decode that message that I want to create a permanent link to it:
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: