Justin's IT Blog

Finally, a geek travel router I love!

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

My ideal travel router I’ve been kicking around the idea of building a small travel router out of a Raspberry Pi or an Asus Tinkerboard for a while. My ideal product would be something that can connect to an upstream ISP…

In 16 months Windows and SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 will no longer be supported, what’s your plan?

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Let’s not kid each other, you or someone you know is still running Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, or SQL 2008, 2008 R2 in production. I’m not trying to say you (or them) are a bad I.T. person because of…

Serial Consoles FTW like its 1978!

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

A little history If you’re older than me I need not explain what a serial console is, but if you are younger than me then let me give you a little background information. Back in the day, they needed a way…

The Secret Sauce Behind zPlanner

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

zPlanner is a replication planning tool that analyzes VMware virtual machine storage patterns and helps plan for replication to the public cloud (or other disaster recovery locations). If you want to learn more about what zPlanner is, then check out the first…

zPlanner – Replication Planning Super Tool

Posted on July 14, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

What is zPlanner? Project goals As more and more companies make the decision to explore public cloud it has become very important to be able to gather statistical data from those workloads and analyze it for things like change rate,…

Zerto Alert – The default Microsoft SAN Policy may …

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Have you seen this SAN Policy alert? If you use Zerto to replicate Microsoft Virtual machines that have multiple hard drives you have probably seen this warning in the GUI. Typically It occurs when you are replicating data to Azure…

My Ubiquiti UniFi Appliance 3.0 – now even more super!

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Justin Paul | 16 Comments

Out with the old My Ubiquiti Unifi 2.0 virtual appliance has gotten quite a few downloads. So I decided to revamp it for 2018. This version is easier to use, comes with the latest UniFi server (as of this post),…

Zerto alerts your way – Sending them to the Windows Application Log

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Do you use a monitoring program to watch your Windows Event logs? If you do, and you’re a Zerto user you will love the script I just finished up! Zerto has the ability to send email alerts as well as…

How to Create a UniFi Server on AWS in 6 Easy Steps

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you are looking for an alternative to the Ubiquiti Enterprise Unifi service, hosting your UniFi server on AWS is a great alternative. Plus it’s super easy! If you have a VMware ESXi server I have created a virtual appliance…

Remote Desktop Error: CredSSP encryption oracle remediation

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been having trouble using Remote Desktop to get into machines in my lab. The error is always the same: What is CredSSP and why it is an issue? (From the Microsoft KB Article) Credential Security Support Provider protocol…