Check Equalogic SAN hard drives for errors
Many use and love Equalogic SANs in their virtual environments. I wanted to write up a quick post on how to see if any of your hard drives inside your…
Tag: troubleshooting
OLE DB provider SQLNCLI11 for linked server unable to begin distributed transaction
Today in working with a new virtual machine that was spun up with Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014, I was asked to troubleshoot an issue where distributed…
Sophos UTM configuration for Obi
For those of you running the Sophos UTM appliance and who are interested in running an Obi device behind your Sophos UTM appliance, we have put together a selection of…
How to configure Port Forwarding in Sophos UTM
There was a question in the comments on a recent blog post on how to configure port forwarding in Sophos UTM. While a little less intuitive than other UTM firewalls such…
Nginx configuration, security, and other information
Nginx is rapidly gaining popularity in the WebHosting world, especially since performance, speed, and scaling are becoming ever more important. Nginx is capable of handling a large amount of concurrent…
AppAssure Network error during transfer of data from volumes
Recently, in working with a development SQL server that had been added to AppAssure, an error was being seen on incremental snapshots after a successful base image. The AppAssure error…
MySQL Workbench won’t launch Windows 8.1
I ran into a pesky issue the other day using MySQL workbench where the program itself simply would not launch. I could see the process running in Task manager in…
Make TSADMIN.MSC work in Windows 8.1
So if you are an admin and have migrated your administrator workstation over to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 lately, you may run into a frustration if you are used…
Makewinpemedia Diskpart Format ErrorLevel -2147212243
In working with Windows 8.1 WADK in a client environment recently, the need arose to create a USB key to boot from for PE environment on a workstation. There is a…
SQL Windows Authentication can’t login to SSMS locally
Recently, a client was experiencing a really weird issue where they could connect to a recently built SQL server using SQL Server Management Studio loaded on remote workstations, however, they…