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Coronavirus: Day One 23/03/2020
Up until today the Coronavirus crisis had just been a very worrying news story, something I was following, watching, listening to the daily news reports, expecting it to affect me and my family at some point but unsure exactly when. Well, today was the day it hit, the 23rd March 2020.
Continue readingCerts: Domain Name Service (DNS) – (70-410)
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a service which resolves real-world names to Internet Protocol IP addresses. My study notes should get you started on the material covered in 70-410, however, I’d strongly recommend you download the objectives from the Microsoft website, enjoy.
Tech Note: Tombstone Active Directory Domain Controllers
I have a number of test platforms which I use, and last week I started one which had been offline for a number of months. It consists of two Hyper-V Virtual Machines, each running Windows Server 2012 R2. These servers are configured as ADDC in the same domain and the last time I used them all was working as expected. However, upon firing them up I noticed a few errors with Active Directory Replication, the problem? My Active Directory Domain Controllers were tombstoned.
Tech Note: Activating Windows Server 2012 Evaluation Edition
Microsoft makes a lot of their enterprise-grade software available to the IT community as evaluation editions. This allows you to download a fully featured copy of the software and test it within your environment for a period of time before purchasing the fully licensed product.
Certs: 3.3 Configuring Site Level Fault Tolerance (70-412)
Hyper-V Replica is a Server 2012 & 2012 R2 feature that allows you to create a replica of a virtual machine running on Hyper-V on either of the platforms. If the primary VM fails, you can failover to the replica VM. Thus Hyper-V Replica can provide fault tolerance for a VM even if the entire host site should go offline.
The Telephone Interview
A few months ago, I had a telephone interview for a senior networking position. The interview lasted for approximately forty-five minutes, three of us were on the call, me, the company’s technical director and an existing network engineer at the company.
Certs 1.3 – Install & Configure Network Services (Network+)
This section covers crucial network services everyone uses in today’s networks, such as DHCP, DNS & NAT.
Blog: AWS Summit London – Preview
On Wednesday 28th June I will be attending the AWS Summit in London. I’ve been interested in AWS and what it can offer for a while now, and this should be a superb opportunity to learn more about the platform and services it offers, from the industry experts.
Blog: Building a Plex Media Server
If you’re anything like me, you have a considerable amount of downloaded content (music, tv shows, movies) stored away on a desktop PC. Over the years this library has grown considerably and back in the day before the plethora of mobile devices we now own, having this only available on the desktop was fine. However, in 2017 this ‘stuff’ needs to be accessible on all your devices.