“Blackmail” (Hindi movie) – dark comedy, but …
“Blackmail”, starring Irrfan Khan an directed by Abhinay Deo, tries to be a dark comedy. Something like “Fargo” or most Coen brothers movies. But while the latter movies are coherent in terms of the...
View ArticleThe Crazy Old Bishop
That’s what my daughter called my bishop today in a game of chess with her and the bishop single-handedly killed pretty much all her pieces and checkmated her king in the end with my king. Funny! She’s...
View ArticleThe music of “Aravindante Athidhikal”
Once in a while you come across an album where pretty much every song is amazing. “Aravindante Athidhikal” is one such. The first time I heard it I wasn’t impressed. But the next day I found myself...
View Article[Aside] Easily switch between multiple audio outputs using SoundSwitch
Via the always helpful How-To Geek – if you have multiple audio output devices on Windows 10 (e.g. HDMI, regular headphones via the headphone jack, a couple of Bluetooth headphones) like I do, and...
View ArticleAzure and DAG IP – not pingable on all nodes
If you are running an Exchange DAG in Azure you won’t always be able to ping the DAG IP. In fact, IP less DAG seems to be the recommendation. Crazy thing is I can’t find any install guide or advise for...
View Article[Aside] Query remote RDP sessions and kill them
If you want to query the remote RDP sessions on a machine: query session /server:<ServerName> And to disconnect: reset session <SessionID> /server:<ServerName>
View Article“The Outsider”
Just wrapped up an 18 and half hour listen of Stephen King’s “The Outsider”. My longest audiobook probably. “The Outsider” is good but not great. It has its moments though and the story gets better and...
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Internet not working in Chrome but works fine in IE
Today, Internet browsing via Chrome stopped working at my office. IE was not affected, only Chrome. The error was just that the site couldn’t be reached. I fired up Chrome and went to...
View ArticlePowerShell: listing snap-ins and their cmdlets
I know what to do when it comes to finding a list of available modules in PowerShell (Get-Module -ListAvailable) and a list of cmdlets in each module (Get-Command -Module <name>). But I don’t use...
View ArticleTIL: Network access: Restrict clients allowed to make remote calls to SAM
Today I learnt of this setting. I was seeing messages like the following on a couple of my servers and read the link: 1 remote calls to the SAM database have been denied in the past 900 seconds...
View Article[Aside] Various DPM 2016 links
Reading up on (and trying to work with) DPM 2016 nowdays so here’s some links to myself before I close them from the browser: How does DPM work? Very briefly, and skipping over the details: There’s a...
View Article[Aside] NameCheap CSR generator
I have previously mentioned the DigiCert CSR utility and how I generate CSRs via it and also export the private key. Today I came across a site from NameCheap that does CSR generation and also key...
View ArticleReading Updates
This is going to be a short one, but I wanted to put it down anyways. :) Uncommon Types (audiobook) Written and narrated by Tom Hanks, I had high hopes for this one. And it started off well too. The...
View Article[Aside] Various Exchange 2013 links
I am reading up on Exchange 2013 nowadays (yes, I know, bit late in the day to be doing that considering it is going out of support :) and these are some links I want to put here as a bookmark to...
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[Aside] Stretchly – Break time reminder
Via the always resourceful How-To Geek. Came across Stretchly and Big Stretch Reminder. Two software that remind you to take breaks and micro-breaks. I have previously used WorkRave, wanted to try...
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[Aside] Under the Hood with DAGs
Watching this Ignite 2015 video: Under the Hood with DAGs, by Tim McMichael. Adding some links here to supplement the video: Tuning Failover Cluster Network thresholds – useful when you have stretched...
View ArticleLife and all that…
I went traveling to a different country recently. The day after reaching there I realized that I have loose motions. Not sure what I ate that disagreed with me as I was fine all night long and only had...
View ArticleReading & Listening Updates
Started reading (on my Kindle) “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell” by Susanna Clarke. Wow, never imagined I’d read a book like this and love it. I am hooked to the olden English used by the author and...
View Article[Aside] Printer Objects in AD
I knew printer objects were present in AD but had no idea where to go look for them. Today I had a need to, and this post helped.
View ArticleDisabling Exchange 2013 Managed Availability monitors
Check out this blog post from Microsoft first. Mine’s mostly based on that but tailored to my specific situation. We have a CAS server that’s purely for internal admin ECP functions. Managed...
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