Mar 05 2019
I heard tonight that a local radio station will celebrate International Women’s Day by playing songs exclusively by women for 24 straight hours. This got me thinking — could I fill an entire day’s worth of music sung only by women and do so using only songs that I actually know and like? I realized …
Nov 25 2018
You're most likely here because you are an IT administrator and you have a network that deploys Windows Updates via Windows Server Update Services or WSUS. Perhaps you're relatively new to WSUS or you're a veteran that has been using the product since its inception. In either case, you are mostly frustrated because even in …
Feb 15 2017
I have a treat for you today. I have finally solved something that has been a pain in my side for years now. Have you ever been in the following situation? You are reviewing log files and discover that a remote computer (perhaps a virtual machine running on shared storage) is running wild and hammering …
Nov 18 2016
Webroot has recently released a new REST API that allows us as administrators to pull detailed endpoint data programmatically. What this effectively means is that all of the information that is presented to us in the Webroot Global Site Manager can now be extracted directly and integrated into other processes. I very much wanted a …
Nov 23 2015
I was browsing the news today and learned that Adele recently performed on Saturday Night Live. It’s clear by this point that she is a very capable singer. But for a major television performance, I always just cynically assume that the artist is seldom actually singing. I often expect them to be either dubbed based …
Dec 27 2014
I am a big fan of the traditional Blackberry philosophy of building hardware and software that can get work done quickly in as few steps as possible. With the release of OS10, Blackberry effectively had to build a new OS from scratch. This is a ton of work and as a result, many of the refinements that were …
Nov 07 2014
I’ve recently started a new job at a large company with thousands of employees and so I have a constant need for looking up who people are, what their user name is, who their manager is, what city they are in, etc? In many cases, I have to look up entire batches of people. Initially …
Nov 06 2014
I am troubleshooting an issue where a domain controller pins its CPU at 100% for extended periods and as a result, LDAP authentication requests fail causing organization wide application failures. I recently posted a HOWTO on setup and configuration of the Server Performance Advisor tool from Microsoft. This is the tool that allows you to …
Oct 20 2014
This quick HOWTO is a PowerShell script I wrote to monitor concurrent connections to a server. In this case we have a domain controller that is not behaving properly and I suspect it may be due to some kind of port exhaustion. The script is very quick and dirty but since it works I figured …
Oct 20 2014
There are countless situations where an IT professional needs to parse through a log file. In most instances, notepad/notepad2/notepad++ are enough to get in, find the information required and get out. But what if your log files are large. As in 20GB a day large. None of the typical editing tools will help you in …
