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One letter file extensions on win11

Shame MS, couldn’t adjust it through Settings / Apps / Default Apps as you don’t allow one letter extensions there. -sigh- So, Windows 11 does not allow you to adjust a one letter file extension.This is annoying, I had to … Continue reading

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Add Azure AD user to local admin on a workstation

Add an azure AD user as local admin on a workstation: cmd as admin net localgroup administrators AzureAD\<username> /add Admin rights required to do this, ofcourse, <username> is the upn address of the local user you want to add.

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VEEAM Failed to process OneDrive

In VEEAM O365 Backup, I got the error: :: Failed to process OneDrive: <Full Name> (https://xxxx-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<username>). The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Apparantly rights have not quite been set right on the onedrives over at this customer, so … Continue reading

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No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider ‘NuGet’

To solve the issue with nuget, open elevated powershell  (as admin), and perform the following command: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 The command does not give any reply. This enables TLS1.2 which is probably required by now. Try your nuget command again. … Continue reading

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VMware 7.0 on Intel NUC with vusb0 – not yet fully working… :(

I wanted to see if I could install vmware 7.0 on my Intel NUC with unsupported onboard network nic, hence I will try vusb0. Conclusion: Buggy. VMware runs, but creating a virtual machine is problematic.   02-10-2020 Edit: VMware 7.0 … Continue reading

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VMware resize VMFS partition and datastore

Resize VMFS Partition ESXi Also see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2002461 Get Datastore: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/ VMFS-6.82 (Raw Major Version: 24) file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): DATASTORE Mode: public Capacity 1920118816768 (1831168 file blocks * 1048576), 813595361280 (775905 blocks) … Continue reading

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What I noticed about VMware 6.7 and hpssacli vs ssacli

The HP tooling for use with HP Raid controllers on the ESX cli was called hpssacli. It resided somewhere in in /opt/hp… It is now /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli Hope this helps you 🙂

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Fortigate – Recognise Active Directory Users, Windows Server 2019

Reading through some googled stuff and one youtube vid to find out how it works. Log on with your Fortigate account at https://support.fortinet.com/Download/FirmwareImages.aspx Yes you should have an account to get to the firmwares and downloads. (edit: Click tab Download, Select … Continue reading

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Working with Windows Active Direcory, transferring FSMO roles from one DC to another.

Today I had to move the fsmo-roles, and phase out an old DC. These days you can powershell it. Since you are working with Active Directory, log in as an admin user, fire up powershell and a do a: Import-Module … Continue reading

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userAccountControl, Attributes for AD Users

I needed this today for use in querying a large AD. Repost. Credits go to http://www.selfadsi.org/ads-attributes/user-userAccountControl.htm   you can query with this e.g. with powershell and do some counting: (Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter “(&(sAMAccountName=*)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))” -SearchBase ‘OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local’ ).Count But could also check if … Continue reading

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Sonos controller app for Windows, download link

It was somewhat hard to locate, so here is the link to the windows (10) download for the Sonos Controller: https://www.sonos.com/redir/controller_software_pc Cheers

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HP 2530-24G (J9773A) OID’s for CRC ERR

For my own documentation purposes, here are a bunch of OID’s for SNMP monitoring on a HP 2530-24G managed switch. I needed to monitor each port for errors. Apparantly the errors can be obtained using an OID for each port: … Continue reading

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Powershell connect to Azure

I needed this today to quickly find a solution as to why a virtual machine was not running, and had to retrieve some info about an application that runs a script. Start powershell as admin Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -force Install-Module AzureRM … Continue reading

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Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite on “Telfort” glass fiber VLAN config and configure VLAN masquerading rules

So, here is my EdgeRouter config, edited a little for security reasons. I hope this may help you. Cheers!   Short description: I use glass fiber from my ISP “Telfort” which uses VLAN 34 on eth1.34 (eth1 vif 34, using … Continue reading

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Use a Sonicwall directly on Telfort glass fiber VLAN using a virtual interface.

With the glass fiber in my home I got a louzy ethernet router from my isp Telfort. Ofcourse I understand they want to keep things affordable for everyone so they hand out these routers free (free as in you lease … Continue reading

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mstsc credSSP error and client reg fix

CredSSP and mstsc authentication gives some error sometimes, after installing some needed updates, but e.g. youir server is not yet up to date. You can set back a reg entry… this one: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\CredSSP\Parameters] “AllowEncryptionOracle”=dword:00000002 On … Continue reading

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Exchange 2010 removing active sync devices, as removing devices hangs for the user in OWA.

Hiyall, Today at an old server for a customer, a user wanted to finally add one last active sync device, but he already had some listed. Time to remove some, he thought, as he can do this through ye olde … Continue reading

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Local Exchange Management [power]Shell target info

This is the ‘target’ of a locally installed MS Exchange Management [power]Shell. C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -command “. ‘D:\Exchange\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1’; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto -ClientApplication:ManagementShell ” (witih exchange installed on D-drive locally) Just FYI, I needed this today. cheers.

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Convert wav to wav from 8bit to 16bit with ffmpeg cmdline for 3cx from NEC SV8100

Today I had to convert audio messages from a NEC pbx to the format a 3cx pbx uses. These are the digital audio intro messages etc. that you get when you call e.g. the main telephone number of a company. … Continue reading

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Turning on Windows Defender after manual deinstallation of Trend Micro

After a manual deinstallation of Trend Micro Worry Free Business Security 9.0, Windows Defender did not automatically see that it could turn on its antivirus component. Done as prescribed here: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1056867-manually-uninstalling-the-security-agent-sa-in-worry-free-business-security-wfbs#collapseOne It took me a while to find this solution, so … Continue reading

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HP Accesspoints and blinking LEDS

Here’s a list of blinking leds on HP MSM accesspoints and HP 425 accesspoint. I was tired of looking it up all the time, and since these are end-of-life I may well copy that information from HP to my site … Continue reading

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Retrieve MS-SQL version info without MS SQL Studio

After digging around for a customer to update their ms-sql server for an application, I had to find out the version they were using first. Not having the Visual studio tools installed, there’s a cmdline tool that can do this. … Continue reading

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Exchange, Disable spam filter for a receive connector

You may want to disable the spam filter for e.g. a connector that sends your invoices. Get-ReceiveConnector “SERVER\ReceiveConnector” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT Authority\Anonymous Logon”  -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights ms-exch-ypass-anti-spam Hope this helps you!  

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(re)Setting rights on user home folders [batch script]

After some troubles with copied user home folders during a migration, the rights were set incorrectly. As this was about more than just a handful of users, re-setting the rights manually wasn’t a good idea. After digging around on the … Continue reading

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Adobe Reader DC, Remove side tools panel by default

After digging around, there seems to be a solution to remove that side panel that takes up screen space, every time you  start Adobe Reader DC. [you have to have admin rights to do this] Go to the install directory … Continue reading

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