The 2020 Summer is hot and got even hotter with passing my ISACA CISM exam on the end of July. Such a relief to finally taking the exam after so many hours of studying and preparing. The 150 questions are pushing you to keep focused until the end, which is an achievement on it’s own!

(ISC)2 has announced a CCSP domain refresh on August 1, 2019. Refreshing the CCSP content will “reflect the most pertinent issues that cloud security professionals currently face, along with the best practices for mitigating those issues.”

Microsoft published the final release of the security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server 2019 (core) v1903.

The (ISC)² SSCP Official Practice Tests is the only (ISC)²-endorsed set of practice questions for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP). This book’s first seven chapters cover each of the seven domains on the SSCP exam with sixty or more questions per domain, so you can focus your study efforts exactly where you need more review. When you feel well prepared, …

The most beautifull way to end 2018, so happy to blog about me passing the (ISC)² CSSP exam at the first attempt. The exam wasn’t easy but also not that super hard (like CISSP), but you’ll have to know the facts … facts … and all the facts.

I was restoring a Virtual Machine with Veeam Backup and Recovery, which seemed to be successful the VM won’t start and gave me the following error: Failed to open ‘virtual machine disk’:The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.

When connecting to a server with the Remote Desktop Client i noticed after authenticating to a server it can (sometimes) take up to 20 seconds to configure the remote session.

Last week was a beautiful week to me. I passed the (ISC)² CISSP exam on my first attempt! Sooo happy to finally bring this to a succesfull ending. The exam was what they say it is … HARD … had to answer all 150 questions before i received the end screen and then you walk to the front desk, printer …

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Allthough there are a few tips about this little error message it took me two or three minutes to find to solution and get it working againg. This error occured at a vSphere server with a tape unit attached, which obviously wasn’t working anymore so i replaced it with another unit.

Not all vSphere servers are managed by vCenter, you probably also have a single vSphere server somewhere. So when there is no vCenter there is no VMware Update Manager (VUM) either, how do you patch the standalone vSphere server?

VMware has made some important changes to it’s certifications, this is probably affected most VCPs! The change is pretty logic, allthought not everybody will be happy to recertify every two years…

Everybody problably seen this one before, you login on your vSphere server and when you check the configuration, health status it show the grey question mark status unknown. First you give it a refresh (no changes), then you reset sensors (still no changes) … rebooting you server ain’t an option without downtime for your virtual servers.

When updating settings on the HP ILO interface on a server i was notified that i should the settings would take place when the ILO interface was reset, but how do you reset it? The notification message was ” There are pending changes that may not take effect until ILO is reset. ” Solution Reset the interface through SSH. Use …

There is a lot to do about Office 365, but the Exchange Online functionality is most certainly neat. So, one of our customers wanted to migrate asap. After some reading up, we decided that a cutover migration looks the best option. During the process it seems that it isn’t possible. The pre-reqs aren’t met. To go short: Exchange 2003 and Exchange …