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N-Able RMM Remote Access Take Control

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...

SSH Terminal FREEZES

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...

Linux Firmware Updates

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...

Cannot Access Multiple Azure Portal Blades

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...

Selecting wrong disk as OSDisk in Azure Migrate

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...

Competent Car Service in My Area

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....

pfSense Community Edition on Azure with 2 NICs

$vnetName = "tgn-vnet" # storage account append the SAS to this url if you are copying from another Account $vhd = 'https://tgnvhddisk.blob.core.windows.net/vhd/TGN-PFS-01.vhd' $pfsenseResourceGroupName = "tgn-rg" $storageAccountName = "tgnvhddisk" $frontendSubnet =...

RS819 – No Ability to run Virtualization

So just found out that budget Synology Units can't run Active Backup for Business if their CPU's aren't enabled for virtualization The RS819 runs a Realtek RTD1296 quad-core 1.4GHz CPU and the Package Center doesn't offer Virtual Machine Manager or Active Backup for...

Make Outlook Use Chrome For Links

Despite setting Google Chrome as the system default using Settings => Apps => Default apps Outlook continued to open links in Microsoft Edge. This is how to make Chrome the default for Outlook Click File => Options In the Outlook Options Dialog select the Advanced...