I recently came across a problem where a couple of our Azure SQL VMs (Yeah, I know.) were failing their differential backups because of a broken backup chain. The order of backups was as follows: SQL full backup taken Sunday 8pm – Successful SQL differential backup taken Monday 8pm – Successful Azure VM backup taken … Read more
When selecting the isolate users options as shown below in IIS there is an unwritten requirement to put all user folders under the FTP site root directory in a folder called “LocalUser”. This can cause issues, let me explain why… When enabling this setting it will lock users into a directory named as their username … 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
Recently I was tasked with setting up an Active Directory environment as the Radius authentication backend for a VPN solution, allowing users in the correct AD group to access the VPN using their AD credentials. Sounds easy enough….. right? Well, then this wouldn’t be a good read would it 🙂 It seems the built-in Windows … Read more
First, I must start off with a confession here. I totally borked the file permissions I am about to show you the first time I did this and was subsequently up until 5am rebuilding the server. Do this at your own risk and as with all production changes be careful! Recently I was tasked with … Read more