by Ian Silber | Dec 29, 2020 | Microsoft Windows
Recently, I spent a few hours troubleshooting a stubborn Microsoft Windows Server 2016 domain controller in a very small, single DC environment. This of course meant that all Windows authentication was not working, but luckily, this environment mainly requires...
by Ian Silber | Aug 20, 2020 | Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a cloud hosted infrastructure in which the hardware is managed and maintained by Microsoft in their datacenters. Microsoft has 8 Azure datacenters in the United States and others located around the world! Azure...
by Ian Silber | Jan 14, 2020 | Microsoft Windows
The day has come, the day has passed. If you’re still using Windows 7, you might not see any changes. But in case you’ve ignored (or disabled) all the warnings leading up to January 14, 2020, here’s another reminder—support for Windows 7 and Office 2010 has ended. But...
by Ian Silber | Nov 4, 2019 | Microsoft Windows
Why time synchronization is important In a Microsoft Windows Active Directory domain, Time Synchronization is critical for all servers and workstations to be functioning properly under the hood or it could cause a variety of issues. It is important that...
by Ian Silber | Aug 28, 2019 | Microsoft Windows
As a society, people love to ignore warnings. Approximately 63 percent of people skip their flu shot, 34 million American adults still smoke, and nearly half of all business users have ignored the constant warnings that support for Windows 7 ends soon. January 14 is...
by Ian Silber | Aug 22, 2019 | Microsoft Windows, Technology
Do you ever get promised a threat so big for so long—only for it to all end anticlimactically? Well, winter is coming for Windows 7, and we can assure you that the threat that has been promised is very real (unlike the last season of a certain television show). On...
