Author: Rob Russell
I recently came across an issue where an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server wasn’t syncing the time so the jitter and drifting of the time wasn’t correcting itself. This caused …
A DNS server resolves website URLs into their IP addresses, which is how the internet functions. Without DNS, we would be typing in IP addresses into our browsers instead …
Windows Server 2012 and Windows 10 came with a lot of changes to the task manager and in some cases the default views have been simplified further than power …
A zero-day local privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in the Linux kernel that has existed since 2005, being called DirtyCow. This bug affects a large number of popular …
As a Systems Administrator, you’ve probably worked with Group Policy before, especially if you’re in a Microsoft Windows environment. Group Policy allows you to push out settings to multiple …
As more and more PCs are being manufactured with touch screens, one annoyance I found was how Adobe Acrobat would always enable Touch Mode by default. Acrobat would enable …
If you’re running a WordPress site on a Linux server running NGINX, then you might be interested in setting up a free SSL (HTTPS) certificate using Let’s Encrypt. The …
As a Systems Administrator, it is always a good security measure to audit your Active Directory accounts on a regular basis. Tools like Netwrix can help automate this process …
Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 14942 from Redstone 2 last week to the Fast Ring Windows 10 Insider Preview users. One of the new improvements in Windows 10 Build …
Last week, Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 14942 of Redstone 2 to the Fast Ring Windows 10 Insider Preview users. Using the bleeding edge of updates brings new features, …