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DCPromo No More… PowerShell!
I needed to build a new domain controller for a friend’s company recently. It is something that I have done so many times over the past two decades that some things are just instinctive… like typing dcpromo to create a domain controller. Right… I had forgotten about that. dcpromo has been deprecated. You could go…
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Urban Armor: Protect your device!
Are all phone protector cases created equal? I have discovered over the years that, much to my dismay, they are not. Some cases look pretty and are sleek, but they do not do a very good job of protecting your phone. Others are big and bulky, and your phone is safe… but you never want…
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Rules for my sons…
These are now rules for both my sons! Thanks Peter! I like these a lot! Rules For My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond 1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down. 2. There are plenty of ways to enter a pool. The stairs ain’t one. 3. The man at the grill is the closest thing…
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Should You Forgive a Drunken Attack?
Last week Jews around the world fasted for Yom Kippur. The translation is Day of Atonement. In the days leading up to Yom Kippur we are meant to seek forgiveness from others for our transgressions against those we might have wronged. The thinking is that while G-d can forgive sins against him, it is only…
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The New Mitch?
The photograph on the left was taken in front of La Floridita on Calle Obisbo in Old Havana by Greg Starks in February, 2017. The photograph on the right was taken in the same spot by Eduardo Bensusan in July, 2017. Conclusion? Eduardo is obviously a much better photographer than Greg, except that Greg had…
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Happy 10th Birthday!
i started blogging at The President’s Blog for MITPro.ca about twelve years ago. However it was ten years ago today that The World According to Mitch went live, completely separating myself from my former position. of course, back then the address was not http://www.garvis.ca – that would come later – but it was my own…
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Hyper-V Server Clustering Network Issue: Validation Failed?
If I’ve told you once I’ve told you a thousand times… When you build a Failover Cluster on Windows Server make sure you run the Validation Tests… and make sure those tests succeed (or at the very least nothing FAILS… Warnings are acceptable). So as I sit at a client trying to cluster two Hyper-V…
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A New Perspective…
This blog is older than I ever thought it would be. So every once in a while I like to give it a facelift. This morning you should notice a big difference. I picked a new template last week. I have modified it though… the pictures in the cover are shots I took in Cuba…
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Firewalls: Trust me!
I have several clients who have multiple sites, as well as multiple Active Directory (AD) forests. As security is so important they want to lock things down the best they can, but they also need to open up the necessary ports to allow the domain trusts to work. The ports required for this are: Port…
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A Big, HUGE Microsoft Security FAIL.
(NOTE: This article was written December 7, 2016. Not one word has been changed since that date. To understand why it can only now be published, read the article on this site called 107 Days: A Microsoft Security Nightmare. -MDG) For reasons that will become obvious, I am going to delay posting this article until the…
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Outlook / Hotmail: We’re back in business
According to the dashboard Microsoft Account authentication is back on-line. I have confirmed this is the case for my accounts, but hope you are having the same experience.
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Outlook / Hotmail Issues Acknowledged
When I posted my last couple of posts Microsoft was reporting that ‘All is Well.’ Dashboards were green, nothing to see here. That has now changed: So we know now that the issues are pretty serious… at least, serious enough that they are now acknowledging them. As for me, I have been having an issue…
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Outlook / Hotmail Down: Update
So the worst fear of hundreds of millions of computer users has been realized today. As I reported a little while ago, Outlook.com and Hotmail.com are down. But it goes much deeper than that. If login.live.com is down (see screen capture) that also means that OneDrive, Skype, and even XBox Live are out as well. …
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Outlook / Hotmail Down?
After receiving notification on my iPhone this morning that there was a problem with one of my Outlook.com accounts I went onto my computer to try it out. It did not work there either, so I did some investigating. It looks like this system is suffering a major outage today. I am not sure if…
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A Good Day…
My day started with an urgent matter at the office… It was a small thing to fix but it prevented someone from working, so it was my priority. Unfortunately for some reason I couldn’t connect to my corporate VPN, so I went into the office and fixed it. Because I am not working full time…
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