Recently I was tasked with migrating an ageing Ubuntu 14.04 server up to Azure with the chosen method being ASR (Azure Site Recovery). I was led to use ASR due to failed Azure migrate attempts with lots of undesirable results. One undesirable result that was consistent with both methods however was the serial console connection … Read more
Sharing an Access database over the network for users is very common, generally via an SMB share. However if you have ever done this you will know how frustrating the trust center warning can be for users when first opening a database. This warning appears because Access cannot verify the database came from a trustworthy … Read more
Ever needed to do something in a batch script that requires administrator privileges to run? Well, here is a simple code snippet that will elevate your script to admin rights and allow you to do exactly that: Anything you now write below that snippet will be executed as admin, providing the user successfully authenticated via … Read more
Years ago when administering a school network there was a requirement for teachers to access student home directories (redirected folders e.g documents, pictures, videos, music ). In theory this was no problem as teachers had full NTFS permissions over student home folders, however in practice this didn’t work because: Teachers didn’t know the UNC paths … Read more
This post follows on from my earlier post about AD login logging where we covered how to create a .csv log file containing all your user logins on your machines. Building on that script, wouldn’t it be handy if we could have that information sent to us via an email or text every time a … Read more