DPM Azure Recovery Services Agent Crashing
Update: We did start having dependency issues after updating the MARS agent. It appears that the agent now depends on the management service. Not getting err...
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Shoretel Users Can’t Change Call Handling Mode or Agent Status
TL;WR Probably the SG90 acting up again. Those things are weird. Rebooting the SG90 and the Director server fixed it for me. YMMV. While moving around some ...
DPM Protected Items Don’t Appear in Azure Vault
TL;WR: None of the current Long Term (i.e. 2012 R2/2016) DPM releases actually send updates to azure. So unless you’re on the bleeding edge DPM stream you do...
Cannot disconnect windows server iSCSI sessions when you ignore your own advice
TL;WR: If you can’t eject a disk and you have apps open, try closing them! Duh. Suggested Pairing: A third of your remaining tea/coffee vessel. Wasted 15 mi...
PowerShell Inline Status Updates Without Write-Progress
Preface: Don’t use this, it’s really bad practice for PowerShell code to work by manipulating the host console window. It’ll work, but it’ll mess with loggin...
S2D Cluster Creation From VMM 2016
TL;WR: If you’re trying to setup an S2D Hyper-Converged Cluster before adding it to your VMM Fabric: Don’t. It will work, but you won’t be able to see or man...
IPECS ES-3052G Actual Full Manual
Any time I’ve needed the manual for this switch it’s been an absolute pain to find. Last time I had to dig around in some sketchy .ru open directory. Manual...
Speeding up WSUS
Preface: All of this is untested, lacking benchmarks, purely qualitative, and seriously failing at all aspects of scientific method or rigour. The following...
Converting PowerBI Desktop Reports from Import to Direct Query
TL;WR: PowerBI can either cache your data or query it live. If you build a report cached (import mode) it won’t let you convert it to live (directquery). I d...
Windows Update Refused to Work, So I Spoon-Fed it.
TL;WR: Windows update never got past checking for updates. Nothing worked. Used my private WSUS server and spoonfed it 10 updates at a time. Suggested Pairin...