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We run a copy of Web Help Desk and from time to time we end up with duplicate client entries. Our WHD is connected to AD so you’d think this wouldn’t be possible but….. surpriiiiiiise. Our monitoring platform, PRTG, allows us to run SQL queries and alert based on the response we get. I’ve created … Read more
Update 2021-01-25: There is now a Part 3 to this project Update 2019-10-24: There is now a Part 2 to this project I recently upgraded my Homelab (the thing that hosts this very blog) from a custom built server to a Dell T340. I have experience with the tower line of Dell servers from work … Read more
Checking over our DHCP server we were seeing quite a few of these errors appearing in the ‘Microsoft-Windows-DHCP Server Events/Admin’ event log: Log Name: DhcpAdminEvents Source: Microsoft-Windows-DHCP-Server Date: 1/28/2019 10:23:49 PM Event ID: 20292 Task Category: DHCP Failover Level: Error Keywords: User: NETWORK SERVICE Computer: dc2.mydomain.com Description: A BINDING-ACK message with transaction id: 943568 was … Read more
I’m not overly knowledgeable about advanced networking but I figured I’d share this since I couldn’t find anything online about it at the time. We run a Microsoft Remote Access Server (RAS) for our VPN server. We provide L2TP primarily for users. Due to a limitation in the Windows VPN client our RAS server has … Read more
We run two DHCP servers in a HA configuration. The HA is configured to split the scopes in half. Depending on how high up the scope your IP is will determine which DHCP server you get your IP from. We have DHCP audit logging enabled. DHCP1 handles 0-127 and DHCP2 handles 128-254 (we mostly use … Read more