I love RAM DISK and have been using it for quite some time on my Windows 10. But I didn’t know that I can set it up as well on Windows Server, thanks to Mounia Rachidi for sharing. Would definitely try some day. Here is a step-by-step Walkthrough: Add iSCSI Target Server role on Windows Server. Adjust the firewall rules […]
All of sudden, all Windows desktops at work started having this issue when trying to connect to WSUS server for Windows updates. On Windows 7, it states that Windows could not search for new updates Errors found: Code 80244008 On Windows 10, the error message is slightly different. There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later…(0x8024401f) What’s […]
First of all, here is why RAID 5 is so bad and has stopped working since 2009. To recap, two things to blame here. UREs (Unrecoverable Read Error) Disk storage capacity Here is an example to illustrate why it’s so bad having RAID 5 on large capacity hard drives. With a 7-2TB drives RAID 5 setup, when one drive failed, you […]
Feeling lucky today…because I am a sysadmin and I have a day to be appreciated for what I do. That day is today, last Friday in every July. And it’s called System Administrator Appreciation Day, aka Sysadmin Day. Don’t be jealous, having a dedicated day to be appreciated could also mean we sysadmins get no respect the rest of the […]
UPD, short for User Profile Disks, is a new disk type for Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 R2. It’s an alternative to roaming profiles and folder redirections for RDS to store user profiles as a separate VHDX disk on dedicated file storage. The disk is mounted to the user session as soon as the user logs into the […]
Here are some PowerShell examples that we can use to count the numbers of user accounts in Active Directory. Total number of user accounts in AD PS> (Get-ADUser -filter *).count Total number of user accounts in an OU PS> (Get-ADUser -filter * -searchbase “OU=Vancouver, OU=MyCompany, DC=Domain, DC=Local”).count Replace the SearchBase with your own OU path. Total number of enabled/disabled accounts in […]
Need a huge SQL database for your data project? Here is one for you. Nick Craver and the kind folks at Stack Overflow publish their data export periodically with your questions, answers, comments, user info, and more. It’s available as an XML data dump. Then, Brent Ozar took the data and imported into SQL Server for his teaching performance tuning needs, and generously published it […]
The age-old password rules have changed dramatically over the years and are barely relevant in the modern days, many thanks to the hackers that keep their weapon sharpened when it comes to cracking passwords. Here are a few good readings and materials that summarize very well how to choose a good, strong and secure password in the modern world. How […]