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Windows Server time is drifting fixed in three easy steps (using NTP service)

So you keep noticing that your network time is drifting. Users are complaining. You should have to keep changing the time every other week. The fix is relatively easy. You need to make sure of the service which does it automatically.

N’installez pas Microsoft SQL sur un serveur de répertoire actif!

Nous avons toujours recommandé d’installer SQL selon les meilleures pratiques de Microsoft. Tout d’abord et avant tout, vous devez comprendre que Microsoft SQL est un monopoliseur de ressources. Si vous lui donnez 16 Go, il l’utilisera, au minimum, en cache. Si vous lui en donnez plus, il trouvera quelque chose pour l’utiliser et ne laissera…

My WordPress site is not working after updating a plugin

So you did the right thing and updated your WordPress site as you were leaving for that well deserved holiday and suddenly everyone sees an error message instead of that great new sports jacket you posted this morning. Usually this is when most of us scratch our heads and try to remember if there was…

Windows 7 share no longer allows users to connect.

You may have encountered a problem where Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 shares suddenly no longer works. I ran into this on a Windows XP virtual machine (VM) when trying to connect to a Windows 7. One day it worked and the next it errored out.

Windows 10 has high disk usage 100% after update

Windows 10 has high disk usage 100% after update This issue has come up on a variety of hardware from multiple vendors. At first we tried the usual things. Make sure it isn’t an application that is synchronizing or using the drive Dropbox Outlook Windows Updates Anti-virus scan Try to disable indexing on the drive…

How to counter the Meltdown and specter security flaws

Unless you have been avoiding all news lately, you have no doubt seen or heard countless reports on two security flaws discovered in Intel, AMD and Arm processors. These, combined, affect pretty much everything built in the last 15 years or so. Without going into all the details, reports appear to indicate that the only…