The internet is a waterhole and we are digital gazellesJames McDonald 2024 Look at the text below of 2 emails I received sent to two of my email aliases from two different From addresses I presume it just requires you to reply to the query and then they send some...
Unifi Dream Machine SE – Australian HFC Connection settings & Wireguard Full and Split Tunneling
Some notes from a Unifi USG SE and a UDM Making a note of this here because TPG HFC connections uses VLAN 2 TPG HFC NBN Connection - UDM Note the VLAN ID of 2 Exetel HFC NBN Connection All it needs is a PPPoE connection with the [ServiceNumber]@vic.exetel.com.au and...
Cannot provision an Azure Marketplace VM with Free Subscription
Problem: Trying to provision OpenVPN Access Server from the Marketplace and get: You cannot purchase reservation because required AAD tenant information is missing. Please ask your tenant admin to fill this form: https://aka.ms/orgprofile (Code: "AccountSetupError)"...
Meraki Open Source Licenses
Until today I assumed that Meraki was built in-house with only closed source software. But having a look at the Meraki-Firmware-Licenses bundle it is clear that like Unifi Cisco is using many Open Source packages to bring together it's offering: Having only just...
VEEAM FAILS
If you have Veeam backup failing with the Updating BCD failed with Cannot update SafeBoot flag and SentinelOne is installed. Try the following from a veeam forum post 29/11/2023 2:35:29 PM :: Processing TGN-HO-DC02 Error: VSSControl: -2147467259 Backup job failed....
Turn Remote Desktop Connection on using the registry
You need to be in an Administrative command prompt then run: reg.exe ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /v fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Certbot Reload Nginx on cert renewal
https://github.com/toggenation/cert-checker Recently I created a Cert Expiry Checker so I can be notified when my and my clients SSL certs are 27 days from expiry. What is strange is I got notified that a client on Squarespace has an SSL cert within 27 days of expiry...
LastLogon using PowerShell
Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $true} -Properties Name,Manager,LastLogon,DistinguishedName | Select-Object Name,samAccountName,DistinguishedName,@{n='LastLogon';e={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.LastLogon).ToString('g')}} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Path...
Date time showing   instead of space
CSV opened in Excel is showing   instead of a space between the DateTime and the period (am / pm) That is because it is being opened in Excel using CP-1252 instead of UTF-8 and thus rendering the NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE incorrectly...
SYSVOL Stopped Syncing to the other Domain Controllers
I had 2 Domain controllers that stopped replicating their SYSVOL to each other. These are some of the commands used to understand what is happening and then to get it working again. Learnings Edit your Group Policies on the PDC / Operations Master (see the netdom...