Running Pi-hole in the home lab seemed like it should be a simple job. Deploy the container, point the network at it for DNS, and enjoy network-wide filtering. Instead, the container refused to start. The problem wasn’t Pi-hole. It wasn’t…
Changing the IP address of a Synology NAS sounds simple enough: change the address, update anything that points directly to the old address, and carry on. In practice, if the NAS provides DNS, LDAP/domain services, NFS and SMB, there can…
If your Hyper-V virtual machine is running fine in the background (e.g., you can still SSH into it), but Hyper-V Manager fails to connect or throws an error stating that the object was not found or deleted, the issue lies…
When managing a Windows Active Directory environment, it’s easy to assume that if a Group Policy Object (GPO) contains both Computer and User settings, everything inside it will apply automatically. Unfortunately, that’s not how Active Directory processes policy. I recently…
