App development, IT fixes, and field notes — undocumented problems solved.
The "Migrate licenses" wizard wants purchase paperwork from years ago. The actual migration is copying %windir%\System32\lserver — plus the icacls fix when the service won't start, and the dead ends along the way.
Read more →A free Windows tool that scans any local or UNC path and generates an interactive HTML permission audit report — with side-by-side path comparison for migration audits.
Read more →KB5078752 dropped and the print spooler on our RDS host started dying on startup. The error pointed at PS5UI.DLL — a file that existed but was lying about it.
Read more →An Android estimating app built on your real labor and equipment costs — build a quote in under two minutes on-site, generate a professional PDF, and track jobs from quoted to invoiced.
Read more →Built a FortiGate automation stitch from scratch to instantly ban IPs hammering the SSL VPN — no SIEM, no third-party tools, just FortiOS doing the work.
Read more →Lost the NIC, cached credentials won't work, blank password is being rejected. Here's the exact registry trick that got us back in without reinstalling anything.
Read more →When Microsoft deprecated Basic Auth for SMTP, our SSRS reports stopped emailing. Built a .NET 8 Windows Service to replace it using Graph API and certificate auth.
Read more →Both vCenter and VxRail Manager were offline. vSAN was partially recovered. Here's how we got VMs back on the network by rewriting VMX files directly on the host.
Read more →pfBlockerNG looked configured and the MaxMind key was valid, but overseas traffic was still getting through. The culprit was a single dropdown set to Deny Both instead of Deny Inbound.
Read more →Students were getting 4 Mbps in a building full of APs. Every laptop was stuck to the Media Room access point regardless of where in the building they were sitting.
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