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Need to trigger a specific response code for some testing? Possibly need to test how your monitoring tool handles a 301 response code? There is a wonderful free service called httpstat.us which can be used to trigger HTTP response codes and payload. This is helpful in testing apps, or web monitoring tools. Simply append the response code that you want to receive with the tool you're testing, for instance, httpstat.us/500 Site: https://httpstat.us/ GitHub project: https://github.com/Readify/httpstatus

To Fix Transaction Log backups failing with error "@@SERVERNAME does not match SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName')" you can simply run the following to verify that the machine name and server name property are the same: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') SELECT @@SERVERNAME If not, you must fix it manually and RESTART SQL - replace oldname and newname with the new name of the SQL server. sp_dropserver 'OLDNAME; GO sp_addserver 'NEWNAME', local; GO

The DPOR stands for designated partner of record. This is a delegation you can add to your Azure subscription that I partner may request. This request allows the VAR, MSP, or consulting group to get benefits for assisting their partner in Azure. By entering in the partner information when requested your really help your partner out :) More information here:

My imposter "Ah-ha" moment of the day is finally realizing that you can invoke-webrequest for a specific hostname without setting a host entry by using the invoke-webrequest cmdlet with the host header. Ie: invoke-webrequest 172.16.43.5 -Headers @{Host = "mydomain.com"}