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My backup server has a ASRock H370M-ITX/AC motherboard in it and at the time of these benchmarks 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf SATA disks. I run Veeam and used the SATA disks as my backup repository. My original configuration was 2x6TB Ironwolfs in a RAID0 (using Microsoft Storage Spaces) with Bitlocker enabled. This worked perfectly fine and … 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
Update 2018-11-12 It appears a recent Steam update broke the way I was originally launching Steam via the scheduled task. I’ve updated the post accordingly with a different method of accomplishing the same task. Original Post I recently started making an effort to make sure all of my digital purchases are backed up. Apps, … Read more