Chrome Browser – Show Sites SSL / HTTPS Certificate?
KB ID 0001300 Problem I used to use Chrome all the time back in the dark ages before I saw the light and bought a mac. Since then I’ve persevered with Safari and never felt the need to go back. This afternoon someone in the office asked, ‘How do you see site certificates in Chrome?’ Which I thought was a little odd as it’s easy to do in IE, Firefox, and Safari. So I jumped on a remote machine for a look. Sure...
HP Switches – Find ‘Uptime’
KB ID 0001299 Problem Nice short and sweet article, you have an HP Switch, and you want to know how long it’s been online. Solution Execute the following command; show system-information Note: On newer versions of the OS, the command may omit the hyphen i.e. show system information Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
Testing AnyConnect With Packet Tracer
KB ID 0001298 Problem Packet tracer is a great tool, I wrote about it in the ‘Prove It’s Not the Firewall’ article a while ago. A couple of months ago I was having a discussion with a colleague about packet tracing a remote VPN client to check connectivity, he said at the time, “It will behave differently if the IP you use is already connected”. I never really thought about it until today, when I was...
Exchange 2016 / 2019 Adding a New Email Domain
KB ID 0001297 Problem On EE this morning someone asked this question and I realised I’ve never written it up. So If you want to add a new domain to an already working Exchange deployment how do you do it? Solution Firstly, you need to have purchased the new domain name, and have the DNS records setup properly for the new domain name. See the following article; Setting up the Correct DNS Records for your Web or Mail Server Add...
Barracuda Web Filter – Not Displaying Usernames
KB ID 0001296 Problem I installed a Barracuda Web Filter 410 hardware appliance last week for a client on a 30 day trial. It was in ‘inline’ mode in front of their firewall and was happily logging all web activity and sites that were getting blocked. The problem was when you looked in the log this is what you saw; With other vendors you simply need to put an agent in to fix this, and as it turns out Barracuda is no...