Recently I got hold of a Fortinet Lab FG-100D. The Fan in this unit is around 50db and not suitable for a lounge. The device is not […]
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Failed to start the virtual machine ‘DockerDesktopVM’ because one of the Hyper-V components is not running.
Trying to Run Docker on a Windows 10 Desktop VM in Vmware I got the following docker errorFailed to start the virtual machine ‘DockerDesktopVM’ because one of […]
Super Useful Veeam Backup Calculators
Work out how much Spacehttps://rps.dewin.me/work out bandwidthhttps://rps.dewin.me/bandwidth/Refs Calculatorhttp://dewin.me/refs/ It is not a good idea to target the primary and backup copy job to the same repository as this […]
N-able Take Control Australian Servers
I needed to allows N-able Take Control The guide online showed that we had to whitelist *.mspa.n-able.com , however the firewall could not whitelist Wildcard address. The static […]
.\AzureMfaNpsExtnConfigSetup.ps1 – search criteria and provider name ‘NuGet’
VERBOSE: PowerShell meta provider initialization failed.VERBOSE: PowerShell meta provider initialization failed.PackageManagement\Import-PackageProvider : No match was found for the specified search criteria and provider name‘NuGet’. Try ‘Get-PackageProvider -ListAvailable’ […]
Valimail – Mostly failing forwarders
Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) functionality was added to Office 365 ( and other platforms ) to resolve a problem in which autoforwarding is incompatible with SPF.SRS rewriting […]
Take ownership of an unmanaged 365 tenancy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/misc/become-the-admin?view=o365-worldwideHad to go through this process for a customer, because their VLSC account was setup at some stage in the past using licensing@ VLSC account as a […]
Synology Snapshot : there is no iscsi lun in your system
You lun needs to be Thin Provisioned not thick
Powershell – How to report on Windows Updates for a server over a yearly Period
For auditing purposes you will need to report on the updates install on a server and the install status. Below is a powershell script that does just […]
How to Fix 2008 R2 Not booting due to can’t find operating system after Windows Update
Boot to recover mode. Disks weren’t detected.FIXED: https://patrik.kernstock.net/2019/06/windows-in-recovery-mode-no-fixed-disks-to-show/No Windows installations detected / corrupted bootFIXED: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-windows_install/total-identified-windows-installations-0/52359f87-de4a-41dc-b0c3-cc275e1d9fbfCan’t boot because Windows cannot verify digital signatureFIXED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeT9T3y9ZRs
