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Monday, 13 May 2019

New Blog Post Azure Web App: Display Server Requests Metrics on Dashboard

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New Blog Post: Azure Web App: Display Server Requests Metrics on Dashboard We have a new blog site: MPECS Inc. Blog .   Philip Elder Mi...

New Blog Post: Azure Web Apps: Subdomain DNS A Record Error

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New blog post: Azure Web Apps: Subdomain DNS A Record Error We have a new blog site: http://blog.mpecsinc.com ! Philip Elder Micro...
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Saturday, 11 May 2019

New Blog Location: http://blog.mpecsinc.com

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Good day all! After close to ten twelve years it's time to start anew. Blogger made some changes that no longer allow image postin...
Thursday, 2 May 2019

SharePoint Online: Setting up a WebDav File/Windows Explorer Favourite and/or Mapped Drive

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We’re working on setting up a project collaboration site in Office 365 SharePoint Online. One of the simplest things to do to streamline doc...
Tuesday, 9 April 2019

IMPORTANT: CRITICAL Firmware Update for Intel SSD DC S4510 and S4610

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The Intel SSD DC S4510 and S4610 series SATA SSDs have a critical flaw where after 1,700 hours of idle time, meaning on but not working, the...
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

iPhone - Add a Virtual Home Button

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While helping out with a new iPhone XR the following was seen: Tap on it and: Figuring out just what that was turned out to be a bit...
Tuesday, 15 January 2019

Custom Intel X299 Workstation: Intel VROC RAID 1 NVMe WinSat Disk Score

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We just finished a custom build for a client of ours in the US. Intel Core i9-7980XE Intel liquid cooling kit Gigabyte X299 UD4 128GB Kingst...
Friday, 11 January 2019

Some Thoughts on the S2D Cache and the Upcoming Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

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Intel has a very thorough article that explains what happens when the workload data volume on a Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) Hyper-Converged ...
Thursday, 10 January 2019

Server Storage: Never Use Solid-State Drives without Power Loss Protection (PLP)

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Here's an article from a little while back with a very good explanation of why one should not use consumer grade SSDs anywhere near a se...
Monday, 7 January 2019

Security: Direct Internet Connections for KVM over IP devices such as iLO Advanced, iDRAC Enterprise, Intel RMM, and others = BAD

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While discussing firmware and updating firmware this situation, experienced a number of years ago vicariously, came to light: ISP: Excuse me...
Saturday, 22 December 2018

VS Code for PowerShell: IntelliSense Code Highlighting Not Working?

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This is what VS Code looks like on _ all _ machines used in the shop and elsewhere but one: Note the great colour coding going on. That'...
Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Intel Technology Provider for 2019

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We just received word of our renewal for the Intel Technology Provider program: We've been system builders since the company began in 20...
Tuesday, 11 December 2018

OS Guide: Slipstream Updates Using DISM and OSCDImg *Updated

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We have found out that we need to have the May Servicing Stack Update (SSU) KB4132216 _ and _ the latest SSU which is currently KB4465659 in...
Thursday, 6 December 2018

Error Fix: Trust Relationship is Broken

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Here's a quick post on fixing a broken trust situation when the local administrator username and password is a known commodity. On Windo...
Monday, 3 December 2018

A word of caution: Verify! Everything!

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We get to work with a whole host of clients and their industries but as a contractor we also get to work with a wide variety of IT Pros and ...
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Our primary IT vertical is accounting firms since 1998. From accounting app support through to highly available solutions for accounting firms we've got it covered. I'm a Microsoft MVP since 2009. First on SBS and then starting in 2014 on Cluster.
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