Monthly Archives: April 2021
Let’s plant some trees with Ecosia
Ecosia is all about planting trees. 15 million users have planted over 120 million trees, for free. Just by searching the web. Ecosia donates all of its charitable contributions to tree planting charities that work to plant trees in South America, Africa and Indonesia, where the cost of planting trees is lower.
Ecosia knows each tree can remove around 50 kg of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over a 15 year period, this equates to around 5 million metric tones of CO2 removed from the atmosphere. Since 2020 Ecosia has removed around 0.01% of the CO2 in the atmosphere.
Ecosia donates 80% of their profits to tree-planting charities – nice and simple! It is worth noting that this is far in excess of the 50% donation percentage offered by most other charities. It is important to note that the tree-planting projects that Ecosia supports will help to give paid work … Read the rest
Keep Old Server Name During File Server Migration
In this complete guide I will show you how to migrate a old Windows File Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 and windows server 2022 to a new Server Host Name while keeping the OLD Server Host Name.
Step 1 : Stand up your new file server, mine is called FS2.
Step 2 : Make sure to keep the same folder structure if possible as you see in your old server, in my case it is called FS1.
Step 3 : I like to use software called SyncFolders , it can be used to transfer all your files with NTFS permissions from Source (FS1) to Detestation (FS2)
Step 4 : In my case I configured the SyncFolders Software to Point my FS1 D:\ drive TO \\FS2\D$ or you can just share the D drive from FS2. You can also schedule this software to run hourly or nightly it will sync the … Read the rest
Download Windows Server 2022 preview
Dust off your home labs or get your CC out for Azure. Get a leg up by making yourself familiar with Windows Server 2022.
Download Windows Server 2022 it is now available in preview. This is Microsoft’s next release which will be available later this year. It builds on Windows Server 2019 by including advanced multi-layer security, hybrid capabilities with Azure, and a flexible platform to modernize applications with containers.
Windows Server 2022 Features
Microsoft stated that Windows Server 2022 and SQL will now support large-scale applications that would require 48tb of Ram and 2,048 cpu cores.
Kuberneties will have a smaller foot print which would be better for performance and deployment speeds.
Windows Server 2022 will have adequate built-in security capabilities that will be using https and TLS 1.3 by default. What is really being focused on right now is that Windows Server 2022 will also have … Read the rest
HIPAA Requirements For Passwords
Did you know, within the HIPAA security requirements there are guidelines for deploying and creating a passwords management policy, this would include: creating, changing and protecting passwords? These guidelines were established under the HIPAA Security Rule and within the HIPAA Security Rule it is required to provide Security Awareness and Training for creating policies and procedures on how to preform the storing, changing and creation of passwords.
Complying With HIPAA Security Policies
Many security professionals tend to argue over the HIPAA best practices for passwords but they are all in agreement that there should be a minimum of 8 characters, include upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters, this practice has been challenged in recent years, as has the practice of enforcing changes to passwords regularly. However keep in mind that many healthcare organizations are choosing to make it a minimum of 12 characters.
Keeping up with randomly … Read the rest
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