I was given a Surface Laptop which was a member of a Domain but only had a non administrative login. To gain admin access I needed line of sight to a Domain Controller but that access was on the Corporate LAN a 1000+ kms away. VXLAN VXLAN is an encapsulation...
IT Tips
Wyse 3040 running Ubuntu – Reboot is Finicky
Rebooting Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS install on a Wyse 3040 frequently results in a shutdown not a reboot. Linux wyse1 5.15.0-82-generic #91-Ubuntu SMP Mon Aug 14 14:14:14 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Running Ubuntu 22.04 on Wyse 3040 I found the best chance of...
Netplan .yaml examples
https://github.com/canonical/netplan/tree/main/examples
Cisco 2960 commands
TFTP Server for Windows https://www.solarwinds.com/free-tools/free-tftp-server Backup config to TFTP server copy running-config tftp://10.19.20.30 Set an interface to defaults !-- in config mode config t default interface gi1/0/18 Output Interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1...
Cisco 2960x set password
username jmcd privilege 15 secret mysecretpass
Unable to query OPcache status when running wp-cli
You are running wp-cli and see this error message: Unable to query OPcache status: array_key_exists(): Argument #2 ($array) must be of type array, bool given. This error is thrown when opcache_get_status( true ) is called and returns false because opcache is disabled...
Turn off Outlook reopen last session items Dialog popup
File => Options => General Under Start up options Change the "When Outlook opens" dialog to "Never reopen previous items"
Displaying Dates with Narrow Non-Breaking Spaces IN EXcel
Update: When using CsvView to output CSV UTF-8 you need to tell Excel to open it in UTF-8 format by including the Byte Order Mark with 'bom' => true $controller->viewBuilder() ->setClassName('CsvView.Csv') ->setOptions([ 'serialize' => 'items', 'header' => $header,...
Manual Labtech removal
https://advyon.com/how-to-manually-remove-the-lts-service-for-labtech/ Just in case the link above ^ goes away Manually make changes on the machine Changes have to be made at four different locations on the local machine in the following order. 1. Services.msc...
Network or Disk error Reported by 2ic Pallets after upgrade to Windows 11
User reports that 2iC pallets is showing "Disk or network error" regularly throughout the day Suspected Cause The network drive is on Windows 11 Pro is disconnecting every 15 minutes Default Windows 11 Pro Disconnect Timeout: After change to basically setting it to...
Tee Ping to a File on Windows
Using Powershell's Tee-Object you can view the output and pipe it to a file ping 10.17.66.100 -t | Tee-Object -FilePath teed_ping_results.txt
Herules Comms tool
Serial tool: https://www.hw-group.com/software/hercules-setup-utility
Replacing SFP’s in Cisco 2960x Switches
I have 3 Cisco ws-c2960x-24pd-l switches on a site with SFP+ slots (10GB) The switches were relocated when the business moved to another factory. The old factory must of had single-mode fibre links because the switches had SFP-10G-LR-S SFP+'s which are single-mode...
Can You Upgrade Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro RemoteLy over N-Able Take Control? Yes!
TLDR; Yes you can update Window 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro remotely (I am in Melbourne PC was near Newcastle) Takes about 2 1/2 hours HP Laptop Latest version of N-Sight RMM Agent and Take Control also have the latest version of TightVNC Copy the Windows 10 Pro ISO...
A Bunch of Awesome Windows Utilities
https://www.nirsoft.net/
Wake-on-Lan MSI b450m pro-m2 Motherboard Ubuntu 22.04
Just took a while to get Wake-On-Lan Running on an MSI B450M Pro-M2 motherboard running Ubuntu 22.04 Using the WakeMeOnLan windows utility installed by choco install wakemeonlan and the default settings: Enable Wake-On-LAN in the BIOS Press delete at startup to get...
Cisco Router Wake On Lan
Haven't confirmed this to work yet but leaving here so I have a reference for later In the Cisco enable prompt Router# tclsh proc WakeOnLan {broadcastAddr macAddr} { set net [binary format H* [join [split $macAddr -:] ""]] set pkt [binary format c* {0xff 0xff 0xff...
Cisco Zone Based Firewall
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/ios-firewall/98628-zone-design-guide.html