Remove Exchange On Prem After the Fact: Cleaning Up a Server Someone Deleted
Reading Time: 14 minutesThe old Exchange 2013 server was deleted, not decommissioned, and Active Directory is still full of it. Here is how to remove Exchange on prem the supported way, using a stand-in server and the CU23 setup media.
DREAM prompt framework
Reading Time: 22 minutes It was one of those afternoons where my Dr Pepper was flat but the ticket queue was very much not. I’d been asked to sketch a plan for Veeam backups across 500 TB of mixed storage, and my brain felt like a RAID array rebuilding on one disk. I…
F.L.A.R.E Chat GPT
Reading Time: 22 minutes A Tuesday That Needed Structure Chaos greeted my Tuesday before coffee. Tickets screamed from three dashboards. A file server blinked like a sleepy raccoon. Meetings overlapped, because of course they did. Prompts to Chat GPT 5 sounded rushed…
Finding Nimo
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s a new day and a new shiny toy for us homelabers. Last month, the processor on my old laptop finally breathed its last. It was a good laptop, but it was ready to pass on. However, what made this crappy is my little Dell gave up as well. I…
