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20 July, 2021

Add Ubuntu to Active Directory

To add an Ubuntu 20.04 computer to your Active directory use the following steps 1 Update your system 2) Add the following repos 3) Set your hostname (if not already done) 4) Ubuntu comes with systemd-resolve that needs to be disabled to work with AD DNS servers 5) Update /etc/resolv.conf make sure you have the […]

8 July, 2021

Exchange Calendar Permissions

Add Permissions:Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “source”@domain.local:\Calendar -User “destination”@domain.local -AccessRights Editor Change Permissions:Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “source”@domain.local:\Calendar -User “destinations”@domain.local -AccessRights Editor

4 July, 2021

Limit ZFS ARC Max Size

I recently had a Proxmox server with limited amount of RAM (32Gb) that would randomly have VMs turn off. Now while ZFS should (and does) release RAM for other apps and services there is a bit of a delay in doing so causing the server to run out of resources and turn the VMs off. […]

24 June, 2021

Veeam does not backup to ReadyNAS

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 […]

1 May, 2021

Laptop Clone from HDD to nVME SSD failed to boot

I recently had to clone a new laptop from a HDD to an nVME disk which caused the device to fail the boot process with “Inaccessible Boot Device” blue screen. After spending some time trying to get the BCD store fixed and rebuilding the EFI partition the device still refused to boot . I realized […]

10 April, 2021

Configure SNTP on HP Aruba Switches

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 […]

8 April, 2021

Edgeswitch – Enable DHCP relay

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 […]

29 March, 2021

Add User As Local Administrator On Domain Controller

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}  

19 February, 2021

Imrpoving Call Quality with 3CX and pfSense

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 […]

6 February, 2021

Creating an OpenVPN server with Mikrotik and Domain Authentication Using Domain CA

Recently I was asked by a client to create an openVPN server that utilizes their existing Active Directory and Key Infrastructure. While this probably not the only way of implementing this solution here are the steps I followed to get it working Some thing I am assume you already have in place Mikrotik Router that […]

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