Author: brentil

Fixing broken replication after changing a Hyper-V host’s name

Changed the host name of a Hyper-V server and now all of your VM’s replication status is Critical?  In the past you’d have to break replication and then rebuild it for every single VM letting them resynchronize which is just an absolute pain and resource/time consuming.  Now we can use the PowerShell Set-VMReplication to fix the Replica Server’s changed name.  Continue reading “Fixing broken replication after changing a Hyper-V host’s name” →

STIG/CIS/Best Practices stops Acrobat loading PDFs from over the network

We’ve been running STIG configuration with Adobe Acrobat DC Classic & Continuous versions for a while with no issues until early 2019 when users started not being able to load PDFs from over the network anymore.  Acrobat would say it was blocking loading PDFs from the internet and then give the address it was blocking of SMB://FileServerName.Domain.Org/Path/EvilPDF.pdf which is clearly not on the internet.  Continue reading “STIG/CIS/Best Practices stops Acrobat loading PDFs from over the network” →

Active Directory user accounts keep losing inheritable permissions?

Do you have Active Directory accounts and use a password reset management tool like Thycotic’s Password Reset and out of the blue some accounts just stop being able to be managed?  We did and I stumbled across the solution while trying to resolve something else.  Continue reading “Active Directory user accounts keep losing inheritable permissions?” →

I stumbled across the solution while trying to resolve something else

The title of this post pretty much sums up what I’ve decided to use my blog for.  Every day my job is to keep things running and if they’re not figure out why and resolve them.  Over the past couple of decades of doing this I’ve realized I stumbled across the solution while trying to resolve something else to so many issues I have.  A lot of times the link between these issues are something I have to piece together and when I do I try to contribute back to forums or news groups.  I decided that posting them here will hopefully get them indexed and help solve the same issues others may be coming across too.