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Password Vault: Success!
I can’t believe it has been two years since I signed up for my password vault, but there it was in my mailbox… the reminder that it is time to renew my ‘premium’ service with my password vault service. I did it gladly, giving over my credit card information. Why premium, you ask? Well, for…
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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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Touch: You can touch this!
Occasionally I am sent a press release about a new product, or a soon to be released product, that I think is worth talking about. That happened this week when I received a kit about an upcoming product called Touch Earbuds. The Touch Earbuds are the next generation of a product I looked at a…
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SCOM Unmonitored: Never Again!
In my last article I showed you how to enable the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Agent Proxy using PowerShell. We used the cmdlet: PS C:\> Get-SCOMagent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled -match “False”} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy While this does work, it is what I call a point-in-time solution… that is, it enables the Agent Proxy on everything…
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SCOM: Unmanaged?
Congratulations! You have installed System Center Operations Manager, and you have installed all of the management packs that you needed. Unfortunately you are getting that big, ugly, EMPTY green circle… you know, the one that is supposed to have green check marks in them? Yeah, it happens to me too. The solution, often enough, is…
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SCM is gone… Say Hi to SCT.
For the past several years nearly every client of mine (that I have consulted on Active Directory) has been introduced to the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM), a great tool that helped create Group Policy Objects (GPOs) for any number of Organizational Units (OUs), including Default Domain Policy, Domain Controller Policy, Client Workstation Policy, and…
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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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Fifteen Tabs: Shut em all down!
Those of us who try to keep the banging of our heads against a wall to a minimum will have long since learned that we don’t know everything, and more often than not there is someone out there who knows more than we do. “But Mitch, how can you say that? I read your blog…
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Will you pay?
An article showed up in my Inbox today: Intel Core i9: It’s not whether you need 12 cores, but whether you’ll pay for them. It is an interesting read, and a very good question. I have always liked ZDNet. Their people do a good job of keeping a pulse on the industry. Their question is…
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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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Windows Server 2016: A pet peeve
Over the next few weeks, as I do my first production infrastructure implementation based on Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016, I am sure this list will grow longer. In the meantime, I have uncovered my first pet peeve in the new version. Don’t get me wrong, overall I like Server 2016… but to…
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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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Windows To Go Gotcha in Windows 10
So here’s an interesting fact about Windows To Go. When Windows 10 first came out I was still running Windows 8.1 on my corporate desktop, and when I went to create my WTG image I couldn’t because the Windows 8.1 WTG engine did not support building Windows 10 WTG keys. Ok, that is understandable. Windows…
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Scheduling Server Restarts
If you manage servers you have likely come to a point where you finished doing work and got a prompt ‘Your server needs to reboot. Reboot now?’ Well you can’t reboot now… not during business hours. I guess you’ll have to come back tonight… or this weekend, right? Wrong. Scheduling a reboot is actually pretty…
The World According to Mitch
The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional (and so much more…)
The World According to Mitch 