Like countless others, I got fed up with ad's on the interwebs enough to the point where I installed a Pi-hole to block them at the network level. And it did a brilliant job, I highly recommend setting one up on your own network. Except there was one minor issue, well more of an annoyance … Continue reading Adding hostnames to Pi-hole
Adding redundancy to DHCP if often overlooked. DHCP gets setup on the primary DC and it's taken for granted that this server will always be online to hand out IP addresses when needed. Since Windows Server 2012 we've been able to setup DHCP failover and share an address pool across multiple servers. DHCP Failover Modes … Continue reading Configuring DHCP Failover
There comes a time when every good admin has the realization that Pre-Shared Keys (PSK's) are not a great way to manage wireless networks. I once had the pleasure of working on a wireless network when the PKS was changed on the 1st of each month and emailed out to everyone who was "authorized" to … Continue reading 802.1x RADIUS/NPS Auth for Aruba Wireless
It happens all to often, I'll be in Active Directory looking for one thing and the name of a computer account catches my eye. Perhaps it's using an old naming convention or maybe it's a server that I know what decommissioned years earlier, but either way it shouldn't be there. We all know we should … Continue reading Active Directory Computer Account Cleanup
Internet connections aren't always are robust as we'd like them to be. Sometimes they just stop working for no good reason, or the speed will drop to something less then optimal. Over the years I've seen many setups where a secondary internet connection is installed to act as a backup if the primary fails. This … Continue reading Redundant Internet with SD-WAN on a FortiNet
Back in the day's when we all had our own Exchange server's running on-premises, setting up printers to scan to email was a straightforward task. You'd point your printer at your mail server and away you go. Now that we're all moving our mail to the cloud, it's not so simple. In this post I'm … Continue reading SMTP relay for Office 365
By default, Windows Photo Viewer is present but not enabled on Windows Server 2016. This isn't a huge problem, that is until you add the RDS role and have users logging into a Server OS. Users like things to just work, so providing them with a familiar way to open images will certainly cut down … Continue reading Enable Windows Photo Viewer on Server 2016
I like automating things. I don't like repeating the same task over and over again. So when I a user from the design department started logging a new ticket every week to have new fonts installed I decided it was time to make life a little easier for both of us. The easy option would … Continue reading Font Auto Install
It's so easy to ignore IPv6. Our networks have all been happily grinding away on IPv4. And those boffins who came up with the idea of NAT, that's saved us all from having to worry about the ever shrinking pool of available addresses. Nobody likes change. IPv6 is confusing. And whose idea was it to … Continue reading Enabling IPv6 on a Fortigate
This morning I was given the task of recreating a users roaming profile in a Citrix environment. This particular customer has 12 Citrix servers. I didn't really feel like logging into each of them to remove the local copy of the users profile. So I wrote this powershell script to do it all for me. … Continue reading Recreating roaming profiles
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