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My sponsor launched an exciting contest in celebration of Sysadmin Day. Altaro we’ll be giving away Amazon eGift Cards to the first 100 eligible entries and 1 Grand Prize for 1 lucky winner. They have some fantastic options for the grand prize including a Playstation 4 Pro, Xbox One X, 3-year membership of Amazon Prime […]
My sponsor Altaro is hosting a webinar called “Journey to the Clouds”. There are 2 sessions, feel free to register to one (or both :-)) of them : (Click this banner to register) Some information about the webinar : Want to migrate your datacenter into the cloud but unsure how to make the transition successfully? […]
Recently I build a XenApp environment on Azure for demo purposes. I used –> this <– website helping me calculating the costs. This website (running on Azure :-)) makes it easy to calculate the costs of your XenApp/XenDesktop environment on Azure. You can provide the locations, working Hours, Workloads and number of users (and their profiles). […]
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I’m moving more and more of my whitebox environment towards Azure. But some parts are still running in my home environment. So I would like to create a Site-to-site VPN between my office @home and Azure. Because an Express Route would be slightly overkill I decided to build an Site 2 Site VPN. Some information […]
A couple of days while I was driving to the beach I noticed a problem with one of my machines running on Azure. Ofcourse I didn’t bring my laptop, so I first tried the Azure App in real life. I was very pleased. You can’t always predict what will happen or when, but you can […]
Use the following command to automatically install all the necessary components :
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Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All |
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Check out these great tips for tuning your Windows Server Installation : [table id=3 /] Performance Tuning Guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn529134 […]
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After I installed the Hyper-V role on my Windows 10 Pro laptop I noticed several monitors that didn’t exist : I tried to re-create the problem by uninstalling the Hyper-V role, and after that the problem was gone. But ofcourse that isn’t a reasonable solution. After some investiging I found out that this is a […]
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In my Azure test environment I’m running several Windows and Linux servers. In this blog post I describe an easy and effective way to patch them. It only takes you a minute of configuring! On a freshly installed Windows Server 2016 without patching there were 4 available updates (Azure template) : I’ve created a new […]
For reporting purposes I wanted to export the Windows 10 Build versions. Not only the Major build version (1709/1803 etc) but also the minor (which patch level). This is how I did that : Create a new Software title (Inventory/Software) and fill the custom Inventory Rule with the following code :
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RegistryValueReturn(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion,CurrentBuildNumber,text) |
Make sure that […]
My sponsor Altaro is organizing a webinar with Ben Armstrong this Tuesday, 24th April whereby people can register and get the rare opportunity to ask Ben their questions (link). Ben is quite the star in the industry, so I think this could be interesting for you! You’re welcome to upload any questions to Ben through social […]
Recently I ran into a problem with PFSense. After rebooting I noticed several errors during the boot proces. I was able to boot into the single user environment and after some investigating I found a solution that worked for me.
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pkg-static update -f pkg-static upgrade -f |
After rebooting I noticed that there were some (file) lockes and I had to […]
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Did you notice that your timezone was not correct? This is how to configure the right timezone :
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timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Amsterdam |
You can check your date/time settings :
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The timedatectl is installed by default, but when you did a minimal install you can fix this with the following command :
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sudo apt-get install systemd-services |
Tip : You can check out […]
When you install a package using dpkg and somehow you kill the proces, you may encouter the above error. There is an easy solution for that : Remove the lock files using the following command :
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sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock cd /var/lib/dpkg/updates sudo rm * sudo apt-get update |
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Use the following command to install PAR2 support on your Linux host :
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sudo apt-get install par |
If your device has more than 1 core available, you can significantly speed up verification and repair by using all cores in your system. Installing these multicore versions of Par2 is easy for many platforms :
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcfp/sab-addons sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install par2-tbb |
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In this post I describe how to manually activate Windows & Office using KMS. Windows Activation Open a command prompt with elevated rights. Run the following command to point to the specific KMS Server :
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cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -skms <KMS DNS Name or IP address> |
Run the following command to activate Windows :
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cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato |
Office Activation For activation of Office use the following command […]
I found this free tool on the internet. It’s the “SharePoint version” of FileZilla. With this tool you can easily upload & download files to and from SharePoint (also the online version). You can also easily create subdirs, remove files etc. More information can be found here. […]
Overzicht_patches_Meltdown_en_spectre Check out this document showing available updates (VMware/Microsoft/Linux) for Spectre and Meltdown. […]
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More and more laptops are equipped with high-resolution screens, like the Microsoft Surfaces and (in my case) the Dell XPS devices. Do you also have a very high-resolution display on your laptop like I do? And is everything too small to see within your Remote Desktop Connection, I found the following solution very useful. This issue […]
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On this website you can find all the information about the Dutch Cyber Security Center. […]
