So I had a client that was unable to do a backup to his ReadyNAS and after some searching around I found that a registry key needs to be added to the system so that the backup can complete. This has something to do with SMB/CIFS extenstions that are sent by Veeam that ReadyNAS does […]
Having bad time data not only makes it difficult to troubleshoot a device it also does not help when logging to a centralized logging server. I often come across HP switches that do not have their time configured correctly, this could be because the admin was lazy or more likely does not know how to […]
Recently we implemented a network using Ubiquity Edgeswitches and had to enable a DHCP relay server for our VLAN’s to do this we had to use the CLI Log into the edgeswitch using ssh and your admin credentials Type “Enable” and enter your password when prompted To check any ip-helpers configured to can type “show […]
To add a domain user local adminisrator right on a Domain controller: Open a command promt using the “Run as administrator” function and then run the following command. net localgroup Administrators /add {domain}\{user}
I had a client that started complaining about poor call quality. They are utilizing a 3CX hosted PBX with a pfSense firewall at each branch location. The big issue that the client was having is that some calls were poor quality which lead me to believe that it was a latency issue on the WAN […]
From time to time I am asked to re-purpose an workstation for a new user. One of the tasks is to remove the current Office 365 License (This Product Belongs To) info This can easily be achieved using the Office Licensing Script included with Office Step 1: Open Command Prompt on PC Open a Command […]
Sometimes your Windows PC may fail to boot. While the main cause could be any number of things this post will focus on a corrupt/missing EFI partition. *DISCLAIMER* The information in this post is provided without any guarantees and may cause data loss ensure you have good backups before proceeding, you have been warned! First […]
We recently migrated a bunch of users from one domain to another after two companies merged. Everything went smoothly and users were able to work with little to no downtime. However the migrated users started complaining that they were unable to open their Office Applications with the following error Error code: 80090016 Correlation id: ********-cbe3-*****-9324-*********** […]
Often my clients contact me and ask to give another user access to their calendar, while this is an easy task for most people some users are either just too lazy to figure it out or just too scared to be messing with settings. Instead of logging into the clients computer and adjusting the permissions […]
Protecting your network is very important and the best place to do this is on your perimeter device, by blocking bad traffic before it gets into your network is not only safer but your servers are not wasting resources on unnecessary traffic. A good example of this is to block spammers even before a connection […]