I’ve been noticing some application errors on our file server “VSS (7001)”. These are due to volume shadow copy which is enabled in disk management per drive. My issue is from not disabling VSS on drives I’ve removed so the task schedule is still trying to run. How to Fix The Error First lets list […]
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If you’re looking to set up Xymon on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS installation, this guide is for you. I’ve recently performed a clean install and fully patched the system before installing Xymon. For demonstration purposes, I allocated 8 cores, 16GB of RAM, and a 90GB drive, which is admittedly a bit overkill for Xymon.
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I was recently asked to generate a log bundle for Dell support but I’ve never done this before and figured I would share how to do this which turns out is pretty easy once you know where to look. Select your Cluster > Configure > VxRail section > Troubleshooting Select Create and select the data
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Recently, I noticed there wasn’t a comprehensive guide available for updating GAM (Google Apps Manager) to the latest version. As a result, I’ve decided to create a simple step-by-step tutorial to help you through the process. And that’s it! Your GAM installation is now updated to the latest version. Happy managing!
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I’ve been using the free trial of Netwrix to find failed logins and sadly it’s way out of our budget for K-12 so I’ve been searching for another solution and can help the team. We’ve been having an uptick in AD accounts getting locked due to numerous login failed attempts. 99% of the time it’s
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I was recently informed by David you can use BBWin on a windows server to automatically restart/start a service if the status changes to red for example. So I decided to give it a try. Print Servers (the Baine of our existence) are some of the most unreliable services we run. We run both Server
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LAPS provides a way to automatically rotate the local Administrator password on domain joined machines every X amount of days to a random password. I’ll be installing it on one of my domain controllers. Download LAPS and Install. Download LAPS and be sure to install all the management tools also. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 Extend the AD Schema
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Recently updated my VxRail serves and noticed I’m stuck with a warning on my cluster and a blue informational warning: vSphere HA failover operation in progress in cluster VxRail-Cluster in datacenter VxRail-Datacenter: 0 VMs being restarted, 3 VMs waiting for a retry, 0 VMs waiting for resources, 0 inaccessible vSAN VMs How to fix it
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We’re running the Forigate v7 and have been having a hard time getting snmp to work. Typically all you need to do is go into any devices admin console, networking and enable snmp. Here is what worked for us. Setting up SNMP Log into your firewall and browse to the page below and make sure
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I’ve been having trouble using chrome extensions inside a windows 10 VM. Reinstalled Chrome, cleared the cache, disable all extensions etc. yet I still have the issue. Everything else looks fine! Normally I wouldn’t care as most of the time they’re not needed except for when I want to access some of my passwords via
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