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Just upgraded my Homelab’s Veeam Deployment to 12.3 and during the process there was a big warning about having Antivirus exceptions configured properly for Veeam. In my environment I’m also using PostgreSQL as my database back-end for Veeam. Based on the information provided I whipped up a quick script to add/remove exceptions to Microsoft Defender … Read more
I use Mullvad VPN on a Kali VM and wanted to start taking advantage of their apt repo so my Mullvad client would update when I run OS updates via apt. Using the instructions they provide on their page: https://mullvad.net/en/download/vpn/linux make the following tweak to the second command under the ‘Ubuntu/Debian’ section: If you run … Read more
We have a A5 licensed tenant at work and yet despite paying Microsoft a significant sum of money every year we still see advertisements for their above and beyond offerings throughout the M365 Apps we use day-to-day. I’ve received multiple notifications in my Teams to sign-up for a PowerBI Pro trial license. Most recently we … Read more
Surprisingly Microsoft does not appear to alert when you are running low or out if licenses in M365. At least, not as far as I can tell. There is also no historical data in M365 around license usage which could be very useful in budget planning and forecasting. I dug through PRTGs built-in sensors and … Read more
Little while back I rebuilt my RAID array (went from RAID10 to RAID6 because I needed more capacity) and couldn’t find any information online about what the actual performance hit is to the array when a background initialization is happening. The Dell software says there is a minor performance impact during the operation and you … Read more