Kubernetes or k8s is one of those things we always hear about but does not always come into our daily work. In theory it sounds great, build some containers and deploy or run your applications in them. So why not just use a container service or just a virtual machine to accomplish the same thing? …
Since we have seen a massive change in the number of people that are working remotely in today's world, let's look at how we are going to deal with that. Since Covid-19 has pushed more and more people into a remote working situation a lot of companies have had to scramble to find a way …
Recently I have seen more and more people looking at ways to operate in this new normal of having everyone working from different locations. It does present an interesting challenge from the sysadmin perspective. How will you provide updates to users and computers when you cannot use GPO to reliable push those updates? In a …
We are all familiar with the windows login process, but do we really understand it? Or is just one of those things that you know how to do? Let’s review the process and see what we can learn. Logon Process We press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and enter our username and password. This sends …
In the past we have talked about how to check error logs and discussed looking for root cause of the issue, but how exactly do you find the root cause? Let's look at how we can achieve this. First, let us look at the process of troubleshooting. Identify the problem Most of the time you …
Email headers and what you can learn from them Have you gotten someone asking if an email is real? More and more lately, users are receiving phishing or spam emails. As scammers get more sophisticated the phishing attempts get harder and harder to catch. It used to be, you would catch the email by looking …
How often have you had the infamous "my computer is slow" complaint from a user? We all have experienced it, when your computer is running slow or someone calls and you just cannot seem to find what is causing it? How many times have we seen where a technician just runs a computer cleanup or …
There are a few things that are inevitable in this world. You always hear people say it is death and taxes. I think it is a little different than that though, I think it is Change, and that something will break at the worst possible time. Murphy’s law and all that. In either case, you …
In today's world, everything is focused on security. Every day we see more and more stories of companies or individuals getting compromised or having their information stolen. Personally, I have seen where companies have lost millions of dollars in a single day due to attacks. The ones I have seen could have easily been prevented. …
Microsoft has really changed the way we do business with some of the services available in Azure. I am in the Azure platform more than is probably healthy, but with that, I start to connect some of the services with tasks that I see done all the time. The power platform available on Azure really …
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