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...
Note: If you are filtering DNS for Proxy & Filter Avoidance or have configured you network to only allow connection to trusted DNS Servers the first two will fail so use the Web Request options linux / wsl DNS Query dig +short myip.opendns.com...
In an Administrative cmd or powershell terminal run # /expires:never sets account to never expire NOT password net user toggenator2 * /add /expires:never # Password never expires wmic UserAccount where Name="toggenator" set PasswordExpires=False # or use powershell...
Today I had to go old school. Problem: Windows XP time 1 hour out. The user changes it to the correct time but it keeps resetting to the wrong time. Cause: Operating System (Windows XP) is so old that it no longer gets Time Zone updates so it had the wrong Daylight...
There is supposed to be an ability for the Take Control client to click Restart & Shutdown and then reboot into safe mode with networking and reconnect but I am finding that it sometimes doesn't work. So to work-a-round: Open msconfig Choose boot tab Safe Boot and...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270724 I had an issue where my SSH terminal was freezing in a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I would do a command with small output and it would return but when using larger commands or sudo it would hang. I have a funky networking...
Just did a firmware upgrade on a Wyse 3040 running $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy To show a list of available upgrades sudo fwupdmgr get-upgrades To run the upgrade...
Problem You get a heap of errors similar to the following when trying to access different blades in Azure Portal Error: Failed to retrieve the blade definition for 'VirtualMachinePropertiesBlade' from the server. self.importscripts failed Cause DNSFilter (or another...
Problem: With a multiple disk Hyper-V VM replicated into Azure you run a Test Migration in Azure Migrate and the Boot diagnostics for the VM show "Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device" Cause: Selected the...
Air conditioning Just in time for the Melbourne summer our Car Airconditioning stopped working (ended up being a failed aircon hose) these guys fixed it in about an hour => https://regasmelbourne.com.au/index-2.html I drove to them but also they have a mobile service....