Welcome to the site, my name is Jeff and I have been working in the IT field since the early 90's. Most of what I post here is related to work that I do for the various companies that I have worked for over the years. Please feel free to look around ask questions or post comments (if available).

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Recent Posts


  • Fix Windows Server 2012 R2 DFSR EventID 4614

    Recently had a ticket come in where a newly created Domain with two DC’s was not replicating properly. Upon logging into the DC’s I noted the following log entry in the DFS Replication Log

  • Stuck in Maintenance Mode

    It’s been ages, I do have plans to start writing again, and in fact this particular posting came about because I was going to write up something I just came across at work. I went to login to my site, and was presented with a 500 error. Since I’ve recently moved the entirety of both my sites to Azure Web Apps, I was mildly concerned as I had no real access to any of the switches, buttons or levers that make things go. I checked to see if I could login to my other site and received the same error message, which I guess is good. They are both running on the same App Service in Azure and while the actual pages would load and such I just was unable to login.

  • Automating Linux in Azure

    Automation is one of my major areas of work, and most of my automation revolves around System Center Orchestrator. I also do a fair amount of work in Azure and thought it was time to dust off my Automation account and do something entertaining.

  • DSC + WinRM + GPO

    Ok, so I’m working on Desired State Configuration at work, and I had created a GPO to manage the WinRM settings a long while ago. This allows me to control how WinRM works and so forth and was needed for PowerShell to just work on our systems.

  • DISM...'because reasons'

    I don’t know why this is a thing, it shouldn’t be a thing. I’m going to post a link to the page on TechNet, and then just paste in the content.