Veeam Hardened Repository ISO: Overview and Requirements https://blog.workinghardinit.work/2025/08/06/veeam-hardened-repository-iso-overview-and-requirements/ Introduction Readers of my blog and other articles will know that I am a strong advocate of immutable backups, and Veeam delivers this functionality through its Linux Hardened Repository. I have several articles on how to set this up, secure it, add MFA, extend and repair XFS […]
Why you should use Docker and containers https://ift.tt/nFfpQdy A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades since. Software, whether it is an application you bought or one that you […]
Configuring an interface bond in a Ubuntu Hyper-V guest https://ift.tt/teyPgjS Introduction In this post, we take a look at configuring an interface bond in a Ubuntu Hyper-V guest. But first a quick word about NIC teaming and Hyper-V. In real life, teaming is most often done on physical hardware. But in the lab, or for […]
March 2022 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases 92 Vulnerabilities with 3 Critical; Adobe Releases 3 Advisories, 6 Vulnerabilities with 5 Critical. https://ift.tt/6zT1Y8C Microsoft Patch Tuesday Summary Microsoft has fixed 92 vulnerabilities, including 21 Microsoft Edge vulnerabilities, in the March 2022 update, with three (3) classified as Critical as they allow Remote Code Execution (RCE). This month’s Patch […]
Microsoft Azure AD Sync service fails to start – event id 528 https://ift.tt/rOu4z7p Introduction On Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 running AD Connect v2, I have been seeing an issue since October/November 2021 where Microsoft Azure AD Sync service fails to start – event id 528. It does not happen in every environment, […]
Cisco makes $20 billion-plus takeover offer for Splunk https://ift.tt/GUryVCB The offer was made recently, and the companies are not in active talks, the newspaper said , citing some of the sources. Cisco did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Splunk said it does not comment on rumors or speculation. In November last year, […]
MFA for a highly available RD Gateway https://ift.tt/37Ho583 MFA for a highly available RD Gateway Recently I decided to write up a couple of articles on how to set up MFA for a highly available RD Gateway. Why? Because so much information on the internet is fragmented and as such incomplete. So I wanted a […]
Hybrid IT: Making datacentre and cloud work better together in the enterprise https://ift.tt/3iyDuxX Enterprise datacentre infrastructure has not changed drastically in the past decade or two, but the way it is used has. Cloud services have changed expectations for how easy it should be to provision and manage resources, and also that organisations need only […]
Engineers in Japan Set New Internet Speed Record by Transferring Data at 319Tbps https://ift.tt/3ewEyj7 Photo credit: Medium The previous internet speed record of previous record of 178Tbps set a year ago has just been obliterated by a team of researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). They managed to transfer data […]
Get started with ARM templates https://ift.tt/3eGYYH8 This week, a video was released that I recorded with April Edwards for Microsoft’s Channel 9! In this video, which is part of the Azure Enablement show, we talk about how you can get started with ARM templates. In this post, I want to show you a little further […]
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