Inspect Disk Space Used on a Synology NAS
This has come up a couple times for different reasons, so I want to document some procedures.
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Server 2022 Doesn’t Offer Optional Updates
I’ve been puzzling over this for a while so I thought I’d create a post at least to document the question.
Chrome and Google Sync Install Nightmare Solved
After upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit Microsoft Office, I needed to get Google Workspace Sync for Outlook re-installed on a Windows 10 computer. I probably spent five hours going in …
QuickBooks Upgrades Leave Old Users, Shuts Down Computer
An interesting issue arose in this evening’s I.T. group meeting. One member reported that a client’s server shuts down every Sunday because QuickBooks upgrades add a new user every year. …
Packet Tracing from a Synology NAS
I have several network cameras on a separate VLAN. They are managed from a Synology DS1520+ NAS. A while back, I was troubleshooting some other network issue and I noticed …
Restore Server Test – 2024 Edition
Over the years, I’ve published multiple articles about testing a server restore at a client site. The idea is to confirm that if the server went down, I could quickly …
Windows 10 Home and User Privileges
Working on a Windows 10 Home installation recently, I noticed that the primary user was an administrator. For best security, I prefer to have users work as non-admins, then have …
Using OpenLiteSpeed Behind Cloudflare
After switching to Cloudflare for DNS and caching (CDN), we’ve discovered that Cloudflare sometimes requests connections so fast that OpenLiteSpeed servers (versions 1.7.17 and 1.7.18) block them. The Cloudflare IPs …
Azure is Expensive for Synology Hyper Backup Storage
I posted earlier about using Azure blob storage for Hyper Backup. I initially set it up with Cool tier storage. After several months, I checked the costs by exporting one …
Multiple AVHDX Files in Hyper-V after Synology Active Backup
I’m running Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2022 host. I recently discovered that my largest virtual machine was in “differencing” mode, i.e. only writing changes to checkpoint AVHDX files, also …