Next time when you are throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, please consider tossing it into a shredder instead. Why? Two-dimensional barcodes and QR codes can hold a great deal of information, and the codes printed on airline boarding passes may allow someone to discover more about you, your future travel plans, and your frequent […]
via Chad Cox on Technet, “I need to know how to do my job and perform certain task” When it comes to PowerShell this is the most common request I get around PowerShell training topics. As admins continue to struggle with the decision on whether they use a GUI on Windows Server or to use Core, I want to provide […]
I was setting an app that needs to back up a remote SQL server database to a backup storage on another server. It uses the account that runs SQL server service to access the remote backup storage. Since the account is the Network Service on the local SQL server, it doesn’t have the right permissions to access that storage. I […]
If you need an SFTP server, you can set it up easily on a Linux box since it’s supported out of the box. But if you’d like to set up one on Windows, you need to do some extra work since SFTP is not natively supported on Windows. Don’t get confused it with the FTPS, short for FTP over SSL, which […]
Via Jan-Hendrik Peter’s blog: Every now and then while delivering one of our PowerShell workshops, my customers ask me “How can I create an exe from my PowerShell script?” And every time the same reasoning is being used: To obfuscate the use of clear text passwords, connection strings and other sensitive data from prying eyes. Sure, most will tell me […]
Drobo 5C comes with a state-of-art USB Type-C interface that is compatible with both USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. So the data transfer speed should be pretty fast when connected to my computer via a USB 3.0 port. But it’s crawling like USB 2.0 when I connected it using the USB Type-C to USB 3.0 A cable that comes with […]
This iSCSI based SAN has been serving me extraordinarily well for 7 years and one of the controllers in the machine decided to give out the other day. So I was down to one controller serving a bunch of VMs and I needed to replace the defective one so it can be running in full redundant mode again. Purchasing the […]
I have a BitLocker encrypted external drive that I needed to read from a Windows Server 2012. When I connected it to the server and right-click on the drive I don’t see the Unlock Drive option from the context menu like I usually see on my Windows 10 computer. So, what to do? How to enable BitLocker encryption on Windows […]