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How to open and search extremely large text log files

February 12, 2021 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I had a situation today when working with our team, where our ConnectWise server had something go wrong overnight following an upgrade.  Long story short, it filled up the disk space on the C: drive and caused things to come to a screaming halt before we woke up this morning!  We cleared out some disk space by removing other files first up (note always leave SOMETHING … [Read more...]

Why don’t my SQL logs shrink after a backup?

January 26, 2021 by Wayne Small 4 Comments

I get this question often from various levels of technical people.  They typically have experience with Exchange servers, and they know that after a successful backup Exchange will truncate or cleanup it’s database log files.  They mistakenly think that SQL will do the same.  Let’s explore why each of these takes place and what is going on here. Historically … [Read more...]

2020 New Years Resolutions Make 2 Factor Authentication Mandatory

December 31, 2019 by Wayne Small 1 Comment

It's the last day of 2019 and everyone should be thinking about their New Years Resolutions. You know those commitments you make with the best intentions and then never keep? Except, this time, you can't ditch out on it. You simply MUST make this resolution stick and work towards it. The consequences are bad if you don't. To put it simply, you cannot keep using the same … [Read more...]

Microsoft Guts Partner Program Value

July 4, 2019 by Wayne Small 17 Comments

In the last 24 hours, two announcements slipped under the covers by Microsoft show that Microsoft really are not interested in partners at all.  These announcements apply to both the Action Pack subscription, as well as the Silver and Gold reseller levels.  All of these programs come with a yearly fee – some of them the fee is in the multiple thousands of … [Read more...]

Windows startup stalls with spinning circle

March 14, 2019 by Wayne Small 16 Comments

This week we had a clients 2016 RDS server require a reboot.  The reboot was done because it’d been up for 60 days and was being cantankerous, you know the typical kind of behaviour that we’ve seen when Windows needs a reboot.  So our tech rebooted the server.  This server was a new one that was built just a few months back now, and at the time was fully patched etc.  It runs … [Read more...]

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