Opening a Microsoft Word documents can be extremly slow if the document uses a template (.dotx) which is no longer available. A tool like Word Template Corrector can automatically fix the template location of one or multiple Word (.docx) files. Read more…
A few years ago, I stumbled upon the same issue with Windows 7 and already blogged about it. But the error “The user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.” can still occur in Windows 10 Read more…
Inside a native Linux environment the error UNPROTECTED KEY FILE always means that the permissions of private key file are way too open. The error usually occurs if you are trying to connect with SSH and a private key to Read more…
A few months ago I had a strange behaviour: Sometimes the L2TP/IPSec connection between my workstation at home and our company VPN silently failed. After clicking on the VPN connection icon in the tasktray it only showed Connecting to… and Read more…
Most of the time you are doing local web development without HTTPS and self-signed certificates but good-ol’ plain HTTP. For security and SEO reasons, HTTPS should be enabled in your production environment all the time. One important requirement for production Read more…
Shortly after I had started the work on nerdhood.de I built a deployment pipeline. The bash-based build script for my Laravel application was easy but triggering the deployment itself turned out to be more difficult than expected. In the end Read more…
For a customer of us we had to set up two webserver environment on physical servers. We picked up both server systems (having a Super Micro X10DRI-LN4+ and a PNY Quadro P1000 installed in addition to other components) and booted Read more…
Most of my articles are written in English but this topic is more or less focussed on German businesses so I’ll do this write-up in German. Für das WordPress-Plug-in Next Active Directory Integration bieten wir als virtuelle Dienstleistung eine Support-Lizenz Read more…
We are currently in the process of migrating our alerting infrastructure from OMD to Atlassian’s OpsGenie. Most of the features (SMS, phone call etc.) worked out of the box but we struggled with pushing alerts back into our on-premises Jira Read more…
I am currently working on a Jenkins declarative pipeline to connect the Jenkins builds with Kubernetes, Helm and Netflix Spinnaker. One of TODOs has been to deploy different artifacts (e.g. a helm chart my-chart-0.0.1.tar.gz) to an AWS S3-compatible bucket inside Read more…