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:
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 …