Restart 3CX 18 Services from Debian Command Line
I have a 3CX server running on a small Azure B1ls virtual machine, 1 vCPU, 0.5 GiB RAM. This has been working fine for years. I recently did an apt …
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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 …
Veeam 6 Fails to Restore to Hyper-V Gen 2
Recently I had a Windows Server 2022 machine installed on bare metal, backed up with Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows 6.0.2.1090 – Free Edition. I decided to virtualize this machine …
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:
Unbox a ROK
Windows Server 2022 Essentials is sold only as a Reseller Option Kit (ROK). While I understand that this is a kind of vendor-specific OEM product, I wasn’t sure what to …
Server Essentials 2022 Not Available as Volume License
In a development that still has me scratching my head, I learned today that the current version of Windows Server Essentials 2022 is not available from the Volume License Service …
Azure Tiers and Synology Hyper Backup
I’m testing using Hyper Backup on a Synology NAS to back up to Azure storage. There are tons of articles about this online, but no one seems to be addressing …