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My current project is a datacenter migration where we’re moving Windows workloads up to AWS. One item we had been struggling with was with two large file share servers. The shares are multiple terabytes in size with lots of small files/docs and subfolders. The challenge we had been dealing with the performance of DataSync with […]

For most of my IT career I’ve been in the Microsoft space. And much of my first “cloud” work was with Azure…but I was also doing some AWS. Then my mentor told me I had to make a choice. I like to say that I was given the choice between the orange pill or the […]

I’ve thought about the blog for a long long time. Thanks Todd Rundgren 😉 A lot has happen sense my last post, lots of different projects, I’ve moved to more AWS work and I’ve changed jobs….not to mention the pandemic, Atlanta Braves and UGA championships. All that being said, there are quite a few things […]

Hello again (yes it’s been awhile sense my last post). Working on a script for work I came across an interesting behavior of WinRM. When I attempt to connect to a domain controller of a non-trusted domain and I use a samAccountname [domain\username] I get the following (and typical) error: The $sam cred looks like: […]

It’s been awhile sense I’ve setup an Azure VPN for a customer and I had to relearn the process – particularly with ARM.  So I thought I’d share some tips on getting this setup without any hassles. Be sure to check the endpoint Azure will connect to is on the supported list. Make sure you […]

After reading that Azure can support Application Proxy, I began to think of ways I could use this to expand the configuration of my lab. My lab is hosted in my closet and brought to the Internet via AT&T fiber. So I only have a single IP which limits what I can do/publish externally. So […]

I write a lot of documents for the customers I work with.  And often I end up creating documents with screenshots.  Lately I’ve notice a CRAZY behavior with resizing images within Word (and I assume other Office apps would do the same). When I resize the image (usually to make it smaller to fit better […]

@Foxdeploy and I were chatting about my Nano/Lab setup and he asked me if I had any driver issues with my setup and Nano. The short answer is no…not with this build. But earlier builds (TP1 I think) I did have issues. Here’s how I dealt with that: I dual boot (as stated in my […]