DevOps LSASS and High CPU Usage Our high CPU utilization of LSASS and slow response times was caused by a poor implementation of user impersonation.
DevOps Moving Certbot to Debian 9 I'm changing out my old Ubuntu firewall server with a Debian 9 system. Step one was getting everything I need installed on it. The only issue so far, certbot.
Operations Upgrade Server 2016 Domain Controller to 2019 Server Core Now that Server 2019 has been released I wanted to upgrade my lab's domain controllers from Server 2016 to Server 2019 Core
Operations StrongSwan, IKEv2, Split DNS and iOS This post is about getting the DNS servers to work correctly on Mac OSx when doing split tunnel (not sending all traffic across the VPN). I use StrongSwan as my VPN server and
Operations Web Based Password Generator Ok, so this is kind of a little thing I did. I wanted a page that would generate a password without anything done on the server side. I wanted it all to be
Operations WSUS/Server 2012R2 and HTTPS I wanted to switch my WSUS implementation over to https. Because I like https and there is rarely ever a reason not to use it. So, I set up my bindings in IIS
C# VSO Build and File Select/Exclude Hey all, so today I wanted to use the new (finally) feature of pushing nuget packages to nuget feeds inside of Visual Studio Online's build environment. Which is turning out to be really
ASP.Net From Nuget.Server to NugetGallery Well, we started running into an issue with Nuget.Server and it was time to migrate to NugetGallery. Mainly, it wouldn't clean itself up (after a few days, there were 10's of gigs
Operations Windows 10 going to sleep to quickly Well, I've had a very annoying issue that I've been fighting. I enabled wake-on-lan on my desktop and had it start going to sleep. This was great. Saves power and I can still
Operations Wake-on-lan, windows 10 and Linux Well, after having wake-on-lan running and working great (other than the stupid sleeping after a couple minutes issue) I decided I would do a quick post on how I got it working and
Windows 10 Windows 10 - .NET 3.5 Ok, so here's the overall situation Fresh Windows 10 Install Installed IIS attempting to include .net 3.5 in this install - it failed pulling the package from Windows Update due to my
Programming Team City, MSBuild, MSDeploy, Web Deploy, NTLM and aspnet_client Ok, more on Team City and build/deploy stuff. In my previous blog post, I showed how to run team city as a domain user account. One of the reasons was for web
Operations Teamcity HTTPS running under a service account Well, now that I'm in my devops role, it's time for me to start working on our Team City build environment. One of the things we wanted to do, now that we have
Java Java bites again - Cisco ASDM So, this was annoying. My Cisco ASDM is version 1.5(68). It works on my desktop, but not my brand new vm. I would continuously get the Unable to Launch Device Manager
Operations Install MS-DOS 6.22 from upgrade disks OK, this was really dumb, but I wanted to install DOS, and only had access to the upgrade disks. Lame.I got the MS-DOS 6.22 floppies from my MSDN (yes it's still
Windows 8 Twain drivers and Windows 7/8 64-bit Not sure if this applies to 32 bit versions of windows or not, as I only use 64-bit. I have tons of ram and 32-bit doesn't handle it (max of 4 gig and
Linux ZFS, 3ware 9650 and performance Hey everyone, here's the plan, migrate all of my VM's to a data store on my NFS server, I've been wanting to do this for a while, to get off of the dedicated
Operations WCF with HTTP and HTTPS OK, this is really, really annoying. You should NOT have to do any config to support the 2 most widely used protocols on the internet, HTTP and HTTPS. Here's the simple, really simple,
Operations Multiple Config Transforms on Single Element Hey everyone, so, I had a need to set some attributes and remove 2 of them in my web.config transform file. On my development system, I have my WCF services all pointing
Windows XP Unable to move/drag icons on desktop in Windows XP I had a weird issue today where we could drag drop stuff from places like Outlook, Explorer, Internet Explorer, to other Explorer windows. But you could not drag them to the desktop. It
ESX vSphere 4.1 / vpxd service not starting Good day all, we upgraded our vCenter server from 2008 to 2008r2. Yay. (2008 bad, r2 good). Once we did this, we ran into a problem where the vCenter services weren't starting. Searching
PowerShell Updating com+ component username/password in PowerShell Here's a little PowerShell script that will update the username and password on a com+ component. Useful when domain accounts are used as identities on com+ objects on a bunch of systems and
Operations HP Universal Print Driver Alternative Well, this was an annoying issue. I pushed out TCP/IP printers using group policy and pointed them to printers on a print server to pull the drivers and settings. This worked awesome,
ESX Unable to create VMFS partition Well, ran into an issue where we couldn't create a datastore on our freshly set up array. A lot of people said the solution was to install windows and format the disks with
Operations Group policy extensions and shortcuts Well, here's the task, create a shortcut that would apply to certain people using group policy extension that point to a file or executable on a mapped drive...trickier than it sounds. Here's