PRTG bringing the educational material

I've been supporting PRTG for a while now and I've always had great things to say about the support people behind the application. Their documentation and product support team has always been spot on and up to date. The application itself is also a great tool that has always performed just the way you would expect. There is obviously a great group of people behind the scenes doing something right. 

They also have been pumping out the blog posts recently and one of the latest was a great informative read that really highlights a lot of things that anyone supporting anything in IT should know.

Network Protocols are the backbone of the internet and how everything communicates with everything else. PRTG knows a thing or two about them being a leader in the monitoring field for some time now and they have written a great article explaining them in simple, easy to follow material.

https://blog.paessler.com/network-protocols-list-the-language-of-the-digital-world-explained

Feed Validator

Here's a great way to validate an RSS feed. It allows you to test and validate the feed as well as offering suggestions to make the feed more readable for a wide range of readers.

https://validator.w3.org/feed/ 

Proton Two Factor Auth

 Proton has released its Authenticator App. And there was much rejoicing.

RSS Lookup!

Here is a great tool for looking up RSS Feeds. I have a couple PowerShell scripts built into PowerNews (https://github.com/loatswil/PowerNews) that do this but it's nice to have a much more thorough online version.

https://www.rsslookup.com/

Microsoft Embracing RSS feeds?

Is it possible that Microsoft is once again embracing the RSS feed?

Over the years, RSS feeds have come and gone so often that many of them are no longer valid. They seem to change weekly. I have always been on the hunt for new feeds and even written PowerShell modules that pull them, parse them, and spit out a local page for viewing. It's very easy to tailor the feed to your needs including Blocklists and Allowlists.

For a long time now many people have used a popular social media site to display updates when we already had a simple and easy way to publish this stuff. Now it appears that Microsoft at least is moving away from this social media method and back to RSS. Here's the "new" Azure status link complete with "rssfeed" in the URL. 

https://rssfeed.azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/feed/

Let's hope it's the start of a new trend.