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Rejoin quarantined fail-over cluster nodes

If you ever encounter a flapping fail-over cluster you might end up with one or more quarantined cluster nodes.

Find orphaned VHDs in Hyper-V cluster

If you’re running a Hyper-V cluster for a while, you probably ended up with a couple of virtual hard disks for which the actual VM is already gone. These orphaned...

Monitoring Kemp Loadmaster using SNMP and Prometheus

We have been running Kemp Loadmaster as our primary load balancer for over a year now. It’s a very decent yet relatively low cost solution which has directly replaced our...

Domain join through read-only domain controller

It is known that you should not have a domain controller in your DMZ. But this leaves the Windows servers in a workgroup. Which is more difficult to manage because...

IIS redirecting made easy

Redirecting web traffic in IIS has been done for ages. Most people use the URL Rewrite plugin to achieve this. It provides a relatively easy way to create redirect rules....

Install fonts without administrative privileges

A lot of companies have fonts that are used as part of corporate branding. These should therefore probably be installed on every computer. Deploying these has been part of an...