Recently, I helped with a project to replace some older domain controllers (2012) with newer ones (2022). We began experiencing issues with DNS shortly after said migration, which later turned out to be related to a network issue; however we spent the first few hours health checking and examining the new DCs. One thing that … Continue reading Excessive RAM Usage on Windows Active Directory DNS Servers
Author: Michael Martin
IT Consultant - Infrastructure and Security
Microsoft Edge Won’t Start after Windows 10 Upgrade
This was a very frustrating issue that puzzled me for several hours before I figured it out. Essentially, Microsoft Edge would not start for me. Normally I prefer to use Firefox, as it is the safest and most respectful of privacy (in my opinion)... however there are some websites that just do not play nicely … Continue reading Microsoft Edge Won’t Start after Windows 10 Upgrade
“The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive” when running WGET, CURL or Invoke-WebRequest on Windows in Powershell
Hi everyone! It has been awhile since I have posted here. Mostly because I have not run into any frustrating issues recently. However this problem really racked my brain until I figured it out. I was troubleshooting an issue where connecting to a site using any of the PowerShell commands to get web data triggered … Continue reading “The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive” when running WGET, CURL or Invoke-WebRequest on Windows in Powershell
Changing java security restriction for “Network connect error” issue in KVM
This article is a godsend. Thank you Xiaoxiaoke!!! Updated as of 11/2020 - the problematic item under disabledAlgorithms is "anon", you can just remove that line item instead of removing all the other items in the list. Additionally, running the jar from browser seems to always fail. There is a trick you can use to … Continue reading Changing java security restriction for “Network connect error” issue in KVM
QNAP Backup to S3 over HTTPS
If you're like me, and you have a QNAP NAS for your home network and you want to back it up to Amazon's S3, be aware that their default configuration uses HTTP and not HTTPS! You have to manually update the configuration file yourself to use HTTPS. Why it's not an option in the GUI? … Continue reading QNAP Backup to S3 over HTTPS
Never A Null Moment 