microSD Benchmarks

Recently started replacing my microSD’s I use for some Raspberry Pi’s with the new Samsung EVO line of microSD card and figured I’d do some benchmarks. I’m sure you can find much better write-ups online but here are my results from some quick benches using CrystalDiskMark 5.0.2 64-bit on Windows 10 64- bit using a … Read more

Powershell: Script to notify when users change their passwords

We’re about to start a domain migration due to some applications we have tied into Active Directory and that we are taking a phased approach to migrating we have to have user objects active in the new domain while users are still logging into the old domain. We’ve disabled password expiry during the migration and … Read more

KB3002657 breaks everything!

Update: 2015-03-20 09:24 PST – Thank you Didi for informing us that Microsoft has released two updated hotfixes KB3002657-v2 and KB3033395-v2 that shouldn’t cause this problem. I have not had a chance to try these patches yet. Update: 2015-03-12 09:45 PST – Now that I’ve had a chance to sleep I’ve updated this post to … Read more

Workaround for 0x80248015 when trying to do Windows Updates on Server 2003

If you’re like us you probably noticed this patch Tuesday that a bunch, if not all, of your Windows 2003 servers are not able to load the Microsoft Update page. When trying to load the page the error 0x80248015 is displayed. After some Googling I’ve pieced together a workaround that will get you some updates … Read more

Palo Alto firewall displays “Session timed out” when you try to login

If you are getting this error message read this article first BEFORE you try to rebooting your firewall. I ran into this problem recently with a Palo Alto PA-200 series firewall. I tried to login via the WebUI and would get the error “Session timed out”. I could SSH into the firewall and the internet … Read more