Cipher is a Windows utility that can be used clean the free space on a volume cipher /W:D:\ Get-Date cipher /w:D:\ Get-Date Important: I'm a bit concerned by the cipher help for /W which seems to say if you specify a mount mount e.g. D: the data is removed so I'm...
IT Tips
How to find Pre-Authorization Allowances and Post-Authorization Restrictions in Unifi Console
I Google this multiple times but find the "AI Overview" is the master of misdirection. Halucinated answers... sigh. In the Unifi Network Console Click on Insight (globe icon left vertical tool bar) Hotspot Landing Page (icon next to Guests Icon) Once in the Landing...
Note to Self Meraki Licenses
Don't buy LIC-MR-ADV-3Y do buy LIC-ENT-3YR Pain avoidance post
N-Able Take Control
https://documentation.n-able.com/takecontrol/userguide/Content/Allow-remote-control-MacOS.htm
Windows 10 to Windows 11 Upgrade
Just came into possession of some Dell 7050 and 7070 SFF PC's (circa 8 years old). Just blogging my attempts to upgrade these old PC's to Windows 11. I figure I can use them as low performance Kiosks (Just a browser), or as a router on a stick pfSense emergency...
Rename a Hyper-V VM Network Adapter
Rename-VMNetworkAdapter -VMName PFSENSE280 -Name "Network Adapter" -NewName "NIC01"
Getting a Hyper-V Hosted PFSense VM to send untagged traffic out the default Non-VLAN interface to the Unifi Native VLAN which isn’t the default VLAN 1
pfSense 2.8.0 CE VM with one interface and wanting to do Router on a Stick in Hyper-V VM Powershell command to configure the Hyper-V VM Network Adapter to allow Multi-VLAN and a default Native VLAN on Unifi # Set Hyper-V adapter to be a trunk port and don't tag...
Don’t trust Embedded Images in Onenote Pages – They Break
Note to self: Avoid using Onenote for critical documentation that includes screenshots and images Onenote isn't reliable I've been using Onenote as a "Daybook" since 2015. Every now and then I look back to find my Notes on things like SSL Cert renewal for a particular...
Some notes on upgrading from pfSense+ 23.05.1 to 25.07 in Azure
Original Configuration A dual interface pfSense install in Azure layout. Internet<= frontend subnet WAN Interface=><=Pfsense=><=LAN Interface backend subnet=>Protected LAN Package Update Causes Failure I made the mistake of doing a package upgrade on...
Hyper-V Manager VM State Column displays “cannot connect to virtual machine configuration storage” on first startup after reboot
TLDR; Check your disk I/O or you'll spend hours fault finding for naught The following are stream of consciousness notes of attempts to get a Hyper-V Ubuntu 25.04 VM working when the root cause was disk I/O exhaustion Weird Issues Observed A whole bunch of issues...
