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Windows Server Patch Tuesday: How I Sequence Rollouts to Avoid a Cascading Outage
In a manufacturing environment, “just patch it” is rarely that simple. Patch the wrong server at the wrong time, and you’re not dealing with an IT ticket anymore. You’re explaining to the plant manager why the line stopped. Why I Still Patch Manually I deploy patches manually instead of relying on WSUS or SCCM. It’s…
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From Seoul to Frankfurt to Georgia: What Changed (and What Didn’t) in My IT Career
My infrastructure career didn’t start in a straight line, and it didn’t start in a single country either. Here’s the actual path, and what I learned moving through it. The Path I graduated with a computer science degree from a national university outside Seoul, but didn’t land on my feet in the Korean job market…
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The Day Our Backup Server Went Down: A Full Media Disk and a Corrupted NetBackup Config File
Not every backup failure shows up as a red X on a dashboard. Sometimes the backup server disappears before the alert even gets a chance to fire. What Happened We were running a lightweight NetBackup setup — not a dedicated appliance, just NetBackup installed on a Windows VM — with a media volume attached for…