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2020 New Years Resolutions Make 2 Factor Authentication Mandatory

December 31, 2019 by Wayne Small 3 Comments

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 25 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...]

Breaking out of Windows Insider Builds

August 11, 2018 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I’ve got my Surface 3 for the last few years, and it’s been running on various builds on the Windows Insider program.  Since April however, it’s become extremely unstable and has had frequent lockups and Green Screens of Death (GSOD).  I’ve tried to troubleshoot the issue, but it’s not been stable enough at times to do anything.  So unstable has it been that I’ve … [Read more...]

PPTP VPN Not Working – RASMAN Error 20209

June 1, 2018 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

From the world of "this doesn't bloody make sense..."... We had configured a PPTP VPN on a server for a client.  Tested it using their user accounts and the administrator account.  Everything worked fine.  Then the client rebooted their server after installing some software and found they could not VPN into it again.  It just hung at the "Connecting..." … [Read more...]

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