by Dean | Jan 8, 2014 | General IT, IT, monitoring, Tutorial
Just say you want to audit domain log on and log offs within your network. This is always a good idea to ensure that you know who is logging into what and when. I have used this method in a number of places and it has always proven to be useful for both monitoring...
by Dean | Dec 20, 2013 | General IT, IT
Had a server recently that needed to have Power shell re-installed onto the server. After performing the re-install a heap of strange errors starting to occur on the server. The main one that triggered the alert of is that the Exchange Management Console...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I think it is safe to say that server outages are the most common real world disaster. Just thinking about these issues I can think of a number of server issues recently that would fall into this category for example. Server with single power supply had a failed power...
by Dean | Nov 19, 2013 | Backup, General IT, IT
SBS 2011 Server had a failed power supply. After replacing the power supply and attempting to boot all services started correctly except the DHCP Server. The service would not start and just exited saying to check the event logs. Located in the system logs were the...
by Dean | Nov 8, 2013 | General IT, IT, Virtualisation
After recently cloning a Hyper V machine after another RAID issue I was presented with an issue where none of the guest would start after a reboot. This was strange as before the clone the machines started and ran fine. When attempting to start one of the guests I was...
by Dean | Nov 1, 2013 | Backup, Common Sense, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT
Just a quick note about this article. While writing this article I experienced an internet outage for a little over 12 hours. Imagine the irony. Disaster 1: Loss of internet This is probably one of the most likely issues to occur this day and age. Give that the...
