Technology & Homelab Discord notifications 2: Veeam B&R Part 2 of a Discord notifications series. Part 1 details notifications for Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr. In a similar fashion to part 1, this setup has been running for a while and I'm very pleased with it's flawless functionality.
Technology & Homelab Install Windows Server on the HPE Microserver G8 in AHCI mode My problem was that once the server was put into AHCI mode instead of using the RAID configuration, the Windows Server installer would complain that it couldn't install to any of the disks as they were not compatible.
Technology & Homelab How to install Lidarr on Ubuntu Lidarr is still in alpha, but you can install it on Ubuntu with some ease. Credit for this goes to my friend Dan.
Technology & Homelab Discord notifications 1: Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr This is made extremely simple thanks to Sonarr's built-in support for Slack notifications and Discord's built-in support for Slack webhooks. Of course Radarr and Lidarr support this too, as they are forks of Sonarr.
Technology & Homelab Disable the password complexity for Active Directory on a Domain Controller I recently ran into an issue where I couldn't change the password of an account in AD from one of the Domain Controllers. I realised it's because it has a different Group Policy than other computers. Run > gpmc.msc
Technology & Homelab Rebuilding the BCD with BCDEdit BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. The BCD file lives in a folder called "boot" on the active partition of your hard drive. It contains information that instructs the computer on how to load the OS.