These last two months a couple of the servers I maintain at work were failing to install the monthly update rollup. Usually when updates start failing, we tend to reach for a server rebuild instead of troubleshooting the black box that can be Windows Updates -- after all the error messages…
When selecting a large date range on the long term data Query Log, say last 30 or even last 7 days, I’d be greeted with the following error message and some more information in Lighttpd’s logs. And the relevant line in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log: 2020-06-…
I would do anything in my power to prevent the accidental shutdown of a critical server. Unfortunately, Windows makes it really easy to accidentally shut down a computer. One slip of the wrist would cause you to "Shut down" a machine instead of "Sign out" of…