Tech Mike

The most critical thing to note is that VEEAM requires certain features of Hyper-V that aren’t installed in the “Core” version. To handle this limitation the VMs that need to be backed up need to be treated as “physical” devices per VEEAM’s documentation. This means that a VM hosted on Hyper-V Core 2019 requires that […]

Veeam wants some things that have been stripped away from the Turnkey Linux .iso files compared to each distro’s official .iso files. For VEEAM to work properly, the VEEAM agent needs to be successfully installed on to the Linux server. It will also require that a user with the necessary permissions to backup the data […]

If you want to quickly see how your RAID array is going to operate in a particular configuration. Especially, for mixed storage. Recommendations on RAID is typically “keep the drives exactly the same”. However, that doesn’t always happen. Seagate has a great calculator that I recommend checking out just because of how intuitive the web […]

Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/f92539fd-6b27-4d3b-aa8d-5fe5798fae43/svhostexe-dcomlaunch-process-is-consuming-100-of-cpu-in-server-2012-r2-x64?forum=winserverfiles This will provide a list of what we all wish svchost would have said in task manager instead.

Source: https://serverfault.com/questions/890434/why-is-powershell-slow-on-my-machine Open an elevated powershell window and enter If you get anything that looks like an error, that’s part of the problem. For me I had a network interface that was set to “Public” which prevented the “winrm qc” command from running. If you have the same error and need to correct this you […]

Typically this is a missing A or MX record but in Office 365’s case where you are the sender and have a registered domain with O365, MSFT can block your outgoing mail if a user has: an infected computer sending spam DMARC not configured and a spoofed address is sending spam Firstly, I would ensure […]

I just received an update when trying to play Cold War Black Ops saying that it was “Copying Files” and that it had to move about 60 GB of data. I hadn’t seen it do that before and went looking online to see if anyone had any detailed information regarding the process. I found very […]

This is caused by the SAN policy which can be changed in diskpart. Source: https://bobcares.com/blog/the-disk-is-offline-because-of-policy-set-by-an-administrator/ Then from diskpart

If you’ve ever been curious as to what exactly is going on at each stage of the Windows boot process then this tip is for you. There are differences in the boot process depending on if you have your motherboard configured to boot in either BIOS or UEFI. Look no further than the official Microsoft […]

I’ll break it down. You either have: Rotary (You don’t have this but I wanted to put it in the list) These use pulse dialing to tone dial. The discrepancies of which you may find somewhere else online. Analog Phones that connect to a 66 or 110 block than have trunk lines supplied by a […]