When using Internet Explorer you may encounter the following page: This can be caused by a range of things, including as anybody who works with Azure firewall will know – the Azure firewall block page. So after entering some complex Azure firewall application rules I was surprised when one of the affected VMs could not … Read more
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
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