Blog articles written by Steve Flanders about system administration.
I have been running my blog out of my house since forever. While at VMware, in addition to my WordPress VM I was running many other VMs in my home lab. Given my job change, I have less of a need for my home lab. In fact, the only VM I had left was my WordPress VM. Given this, I decided to move my blog to my Synology box. Read on to learn more!
Logs are a powerful way to investigate system issues as well as perform system auditing, but what protocol should you send events over? In this post, I would like to discuss the topic and make recommendations. Read on to learn more!
I recently attempted to authenticate to Salesforce via SAML provided by G Suite. I ran into a ton of issues so I thought I would write-up a post. Read on to learn more!
This is going to be a short post, but hopefully it helps someone. I recently started configured SAML apps in G Suite and discovered for the built-in applications the icons are not what you expect. Read on to learn more and how to address.
What do you do when you have a boot partition that is too small? This is the exact problem I tried to solve in my home lab. Read on to learn more!
In my last post, I covered an error message I received randomly on mac os. After fixing the issue, I noticed that Outlook was behaving oddly including:
What was going on? Read on to learn more!
A few weeks back, I was using my computer over the weekend. When I was done I did what I always do, I locked the screen and went to bed. When I came back and authenticated I was presented with the following pop-up
mac os needs to repair your library to run applications
What would ensure is another example of trial and error due to missing log messages. Read on to learn more!
I was in need of a laptop refresh and while the new 2016 MacBook Pro was not what I was hoping for, I was not willing to switch to Windows 10. I have had a little more than a month with the new device and I thought it was time to share my thoughts. Read on to learn more!
As I have discussed in the past, I am a big fan of Synology. So much so, I migrated off of all cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox and onto Synology’s Cloud Station application. To date, this move has been great for me. Recently, I purchased the new MacBook Pro and decided to use Migration Assistant to move all of my data to the new laptop. My goal was to continue using both laptops — one for home and one for travel. Given that I wanted to keep the two laptops in sync as much as possible and given that I primarily use the Desktop and Downloads folders on Mac, I decided to sync the contents to Cloud Station. Unfortunately, doing this always resulted in an authentication error as well as an abnormal status on one of the two laptops. I could re-authenticate, but that would just move the error to the other laptop. In this post, I would like to cover the solution to the problem. Read on to learn more!
My home Internet access is critical not only to me, but to my whole family. Over the course of many years, I have gone through a variety of Internet configurations. Recently, I moved to the UniFi AP AC PRO from the ASUS RT-AC3200 for WiFi. I would like to discuss my requirements as I looked for a new WiFi solution and my thoughts so far. Read on to learn more!
