Friday, 30 November 2018

Some Thoughts on the Starwood/Marriott Reservations Database Breach

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Note: This post will _ not _ be a happy one. First: The announcement page: Starwood Guest Reservation Database Security Incident Marriott In...
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Tuesday, 13 November 2018

New PowerShell Guides and DISM Slipstream Process Updated

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We've added two new PowerShell Guides: New-VM Template: Single VHDX File New-VM Template: Dual VHDX File We've also updated the page...
Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Apple MacBook Pro: Upgrading OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 to El Capitan 10.11 with 2 Factor Authentication On

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Wow, what an adventure. We have a MacBook Pro 13" early 2009 laptop here in the shop that has been sitting idle for a while. We install...
Friday, 2 November 2018

Veeam Error: Unable to allocate processing resources. Error: On-host proxy [ServerName] requires upgrade before it can be used.

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We rebooted one of our Hyper-V hosts that has a number of VMs hosted on it. The Veeam setup was just completed with the VMs set up right aft...
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Monday, 15 October 2018

Server 2019 and ADDS: FRS Not Supported - Migrate to DFSR

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We went to DCPromo a newly stood up Windows Server 2019 VM into an existing domain and it would not let us do so. Suffice it to say, we need...
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Friday, 14 September 2018

WARNING: Edge (Sync) Ate All Favourites - Favourites Gone!

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We've been doing _ a lot _ of work setting up a Grafana/InfluxDB/Telegraph monitoring and history system lately. The following is our cu...
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Monday, 10 September 2018

Security: RBC Royal Bank: Best laid plans of mice and men

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We did some banking work with our bank, RBC Canada. In the process they sent us a few "Secure Document Access" requests that the a...
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Friday, 7 September 2018

Surface Pro 4 or Surface Book phantom touches

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A couple of days ago one of our docked Surface Pro 4 (SP4) units started to experience what looked like an ongoing touch in the middle betwe...
Wednesday, 5 September 2018

When Software Bugs can Kill: Dodge RAM 1500 Cruise Control Bug

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A while back there was a scary moment where the cruise control in our 2016 RAM 1500 refused to release via any of the buttons on the steerin...
Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Legacy Windows XP for Industrial Machine Access and Management and Accounting Apps

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There are quite a few systems out there that still use Windows XP or an earlier operating system to run the equipment. So, what do we do whe...
Wednesday, 15 August 2018

PowerShell Paradise: Installing and Configuring Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Git

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It was Ben Thomas that gave me the prodding to look into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for PowerShell coding and troubleshooting. I had an e...
Friday, 10 August 2018

Intel/LSI/Avago StorCli Error: syntax error, unexpected $end FIX

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We're working with an Intel setup and needed to verify the setup on an Intel RAID Controller. After downloading the command line utiliti...
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Thursday, 9 August 2018

PowerShell: Add-Computer Error when Specifying OUPath: The parameter is incorrect FIX

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We're in the process of setting up a second 2-node Kepler-64 cluster when we hit this when running the Add-Computer PowerShell to domain...
Wednesday, 8 August 2018

QuickBooks Desktop Freezes: Running Payroll, Downloading Online Transactions, and Closing Company File - Workaround

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There seems to be an issue with the Canadian version of Intuit QuickBooks where the software freezes when doing a payroll run, downloading o...
Monday, 6 August 2018

Cloud Hosting Architecture: Tenant Isolation

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Cloud Vendors Compromised Given the number of backchannels we are a part of we get to hear horror stories where Cloud Vendors are compromise...