Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is about to release version 8! There's a lot of exciting features coming, including immutability to the primary repository, where v7 has immutability on backup copy repositories only. One requirement however is that for either…
A ways back, Synology was kind enough to send me a DS923+ to test out. I've used a DS1817+ in my lab for quite some time now, so a unit with an upgraded CPU was welcome. The first thing I…
Previously on Tim's Tech Thoughts, I used the plugin MiniOrange to have 2 factor authentication required for logging into the WordPress admin. This worked fairly well, however during upgrades I had been accidently locked out more than once. Since I've…
A couple months back, there was a lot of hype around Mastodon and the Fediverse - a de-centralized social platform that some people were heading towards away from Twitter. While I won't be migrating off Twitter, I did want to…
With the release of Veeam Backup and Replication v12 on 2/14/23, there's going to be a lot of upgrades happening! For the installs that use Veeam's CDP (Continuous Data Protection) for sub minute, snapshot-less replication, that's means updating the IO…
Thanks to a recent vBrownbag session with Chris Colotti on Cloudflare Zero Trust, I decided to write up how I use Zero Trust Tunnels instead of a VPN to access my homelab resources. Cloudflare Zero Trust encompasses a couple different…
ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3 model, which was designed to perform a wide range of language tasks such as translation, summarization, and text generation. However,…