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25 March, 2026

Disable SIP ALG on Sophos XG/XGS Firewall

When VoIP phones do not register accross IPSec VPN it is most likely the SIP ALG that is interfering with the traffic to and from the SIP server.Unfortunately Sophos does not have an option to disable SIP ALG in the Web GUI To disable SIP ALG you can follow these stepsLog into your Sophos device […]

28 January, 2026

Prevent Outlook for looking for Exchange Online

KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover Add a DWORD (32-bit) value named ExcludeExplicitO365Endpoint set to 1.

26 January, 2026

Microsoft Customer Attestation Link

https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home?ref=/BillingAccounts/agreement

10 September, 2025

Windows Defender Firewall stuck in starting/stopping state after Windows 11 Upgrade

In some rare occasions after an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 the Windows Defender Firewall will be stuck in a starting or stopping state. This issue also causes Windows apps to fail installation. This fixes the issue. You can delete the C:\Registry folder.

9 September, 2025

Proxmox Replace failed disk in ZFS mirror

This guid assumes the following /dev/sda is the FAILED disk and /dev/sdb is the HEALTHY disk Get status of pool by running: zpool status Copy partition table from /dev/sdb to /dev/sda by running:sgdisk /dev/sdb /R /dev/sdasgdisk -G /dev/sda2 Now we need to actually replace the failed disk but we need to get the ID for […]

6 February, 2024

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

19 March, 2023

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 […]

9 February, 2023

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

21 October, 2022

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. […]

28 February, 2022

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 […]

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