About Jan Reilink
The life and times of Jan Reilink
Husband, father
First and most important, I’m a husband and happily married to Lianne, and father of two great daughters: Lisa and Milou.
In my spare time I like to be around my family and friends. To keep in shape I try to “crossfit” at Gym Xtra Fit twice a week, and I run at least once a week ~13 km. But that’s all for sports now. In the past I played soccer and did a little bit taekwondo. Two sports I still love to follow and watch, either in the stadium or online.
Systems administrator – DevOps – SysOps
In my day to day work, I’m a systems administrator – DevOps / SRE and applications manager at Embrace – The Human Cloud. At Embrace we develop, maintain and host social intranets for our clients. Provide digital services and make working more efficient within various sectors.
Before Embrace, I was a systems administrator at CLDIN, and formerly Vevida Webhosting. In 2020, Vevida was acquired by Total Webhosting Solutions (TWS). The webhosting and customer support became part of Yourhosting, systems administration (SysOps) went to a new company CLDIN, or CLouDINfra. CLDIN delivers IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service. In short, we provide Yourhosting with the network and virtual servers for them to host their clients websites on.
I was 20 years with Vevida, and in those 20 years I learned a lot. I blog about a lot of stuff here on Sysadmins of the North. If you want to read about my Windows SysOps stack, please refer to my Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 DevOps environment post.
Next to saotn.org, I run a website productenuitdestreek.nl, which basically is just a (business-) directory listing all kinds of local country and farm shops and neighborhood stalls. If you’re looking for fresh food, directly off the land (or fresh butchered animal), Producten uit de Streek is where you’ll want to go. The site also provides a blog with tips on food and health, or how to make more healthier spice mixes or BBQ rubs yourself.
A third site is one I plan to retire anytime soon: ITFAQ.nl. On that site, I write about computer and sysadmin stuff in Dutch. It just doesn’t attract an high enough volume traffic and visitors. The most interesting articles will be translated to English for Saotn.org.
Further I’m a Windows Server enthousiast and a Zabbix Certified Specialist. So I love to create monitoring items for Windows Server parts (IIS, websites, application pools, SQL Server and databases). Often scripted using WMI/CIM, PowerShell and Performance Counters. I’ll create some doorway posts outlining the most interesting bits.
My Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) certification expired long ago. I managed to successfully pass TS70-501 Planning, Deploying, and Managing a Hosting Environment back in 2008 :).
Sysadmins be welcome
Sysadmins of the North is just technical blog, like so many others out there. Here I write about IT stuff that I find interesting, problems I encountered and solved. Topics include computer, server, web, sysadmin, database, virtualization, optimization and security.
For the most part, I write as it comes; posts may seem incoherently written sometimes (my apologies 🙂 ). Drop me a comment somewhere to say hi, or discuss about any of the topics. I always love the interaction!
Latest posts on Sysadmins of the North
- Fix broken WMI provider in SQL Server
Being unable to open SQL Server Configuration Manager if often caused by a corrupt or removed WMI provider for SQL Server. This post explains how to resolve this. - Use OpenSSL for basic SSL/TLS tasks
Basic OpenSSL commands you can use in your day to day job when it involves working with SSL/TLS certificates. For example you use OpenSSL to get a certificate’s SerialNumber or to verify the SAN (Subject Alternative Names). - Update SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) automaticallyThe fire-and-forget method to update SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) automatically by uninstalling any installed version and downloading & installing the newest available version from Microsoft.
- Send mail through SendGrid Web API using PowerShell
Learn how to use the Twilio SendGrid Web API v3 to send mail with PowerShell - Disable ECDH public server param reuse in Windows Server IIS
Windows Server IIS is known for reusing DH key values, but there is a way to disable ECDH public server param reuse in Windows Server IIS and here is how. - Create strong passwords in Windows
Learn how to create strong and unique passwords in Windows using PowerShell, because the use of those unique and strong passwords is important.
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Makelaardij Eems Regio – Real Estate
Makelaardij Eems Regio is het Nederlandse makelaarskantoor van Ems Region Immobilien.
Dit makelaarskantoor wordt gerund door mijn zus Suzanne Oonk – Reilink en zwager Bert Oonk, met ondersteuning van vader Willem Reilink. Oriënteer jij je in het grensgebied Groningen – Drenthe (Nederland) en Emsland – Leer – Cloppenburg (Duitsland) voor de aankoop of verkoop van een woning, vakantiewoning of agrarisch onroerend goed? Makelaardij Eems Regio is gespecialiseerd in deze regio en is aangesloten bij de VBO.
Im Deutsch: Ems Region Immobilien.