Forgotten PGP Server Admin Password
To reset admin password you will need physical access to server You should now be able to login with the newly set password and be prompted to create a new password
Exchange Install/Upgrade complains about a pending reboot
Have you restarted the machine before installing the Exchange management tools and it keeps repeating even post the restart, check what is causing the restart on the machine – any updates which needs to be completed, any software/application which was installed recently requires a restart? As a workaround, delete the registry key PendingFileRenameOperations in the […]
Outlook uses Roaming Signatures
We’ve seen this behaviour aswell with the Office365 Click-to-Run Outlook version due to the Roaming Signature feature that was introduced. You can disable this within the registry of the current user. Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USERKey Path: Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Setup\Value Name: DisableRoamingSignaturesTemporaryToggleValue Type: REG_DWORDValue Data:1
Windows boots to black screen with Cursor after cloning to SSD
When the computer boots to a black screen with only the mouse cursor visible try the following: Connect old disk via USB (Make sure the system is set to boot from new disk. With the old disk connected the PC should boot now but you will notice it has loaded windows from the old disk. […]
Hyper-V Console does not connect to guests
So the other day I had an issue when connecting to hyper-v guests using Hyper-V console on Windows Server I would just be given the error “cannot connect to the virtual machine try to connect again” looking around and scouring the internet yielded no solution until I had an “ah-ha” moment and realized the machine […]
Convert from RAID/IDE mode to AHCI
It’s not uncommon to find a system on which RAID drivers have been installed and something like the Intel Rapid Storage Technology package is handling storage devices, but where an SSD might require AHCI operation for more optimal performance or configurability. In these cases, there is in fact a way to switch operation from either […]
Graylog stops sending messages to elasticsearch after disk was filled
Earlier today Graylog stopped processing messages but I didn’t realise for a good few hours. Eventually i found it wasn’t “Outputting” messages per the indicator in the top right.It was ingesting them, but not outputting them. The disk had run out of space. With the primary disk space issue resolved Elasticsearch showed all shards as […]
iRedMail forwarding emails
Set mail forwarding with SQL command line Let’s say you have an existing mail user user@domain.com, and you want to forward all received emails to another address forward@example.com, to achieve this, you can login to SQL server and update vmail database like below: If you want to forward email to multiple addresses, please create more […]
Papercut print jobs do not appear in user’s Queue
We sometimes have an issue when a user sends a print job to a printer(s) controlled by papercut the job will be listed under the print queue but when the user logs into the papercut system on the MFP there is no job waiting to be released. When this happens it is most likely to […]
.exe file association in Windows
I had a user complain that his .exe files had changed association to another application and as a result most of programs were not working. To fix this I had to edit the registry to do this press “Win_key + X” to open the menu and select “Windows Powershell(Admin)” or “Command Prompt(Admin)” if this does […]