A Windows System Admin's Blog

My home network is powered by a few Docker Hosts, whilst the Lab runs Hyper-V.

In my lab environment, I am constantly deploying different Virtual Machines.

I was recently out at a site working through an 802.1x wired implementation, their site runs all Aruba Networking gear running older style ArubaOS (or AOS) which is basically the ProCurve/ProVision with a mix of 2930f, 3810m switches and 5406zl chassis.

So my main workstation and laptop run Windows.

I was recently contacted by someone to assist with some maintenance on their Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager servers.

I’ve recently been helping a non-profit uplift their security – we’ve put in a UniFi Gateway along with cleaning up their 365 tenancy and endpoint management.

I was recently on a call with a customer who had migrated their VMs to a new Hyper-V host (and away from VMWare) and had a few Ubuntu VMs for hosting their PHP stack of applications.

I was recently engaged to review a organisation’s Entra configuration around Password Security and their Conditional Access policies.

I was recently building a PoC Lab environment for a client where I only had a couple of virtual machines to play with to build a Remote Desktop Services environment to host a line of business application.

I was recently in a bit of a bind and needed to get a large file from a server to another workstation, the server had IIS and was already live on the internet but when I copied across the file and tried to download it but was getting a 404 File not found.

I’ve been recently doing some consulting for a school using a piece of software (a SIS called Synergetic) that uses Crystal Reports and switching to a new workstation has meant there were a few things I needed to get set up again.