SMB1 Is Dead? (Unfortunately Not Yet)
KB ID 0001461 Problem I recently did a migration for an engineering company, about a week later I got an email from them to say, “We have a new Windows 10 PC, and it can’t connect to the ‘N’ Drive?” I asked them to send me a screenshot, the error was; You can’t connect to the file share because it’s not secure. This share requires the obsolete SMB1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose...
FirePOWER: ‘No Authentication Required’ No Usernames
KB ID 0001460 Problem When attempting to track Users with FirePOWER, the FMC would not show any usernames? Solution Theres a lot of reasons this might not work, let’s take a look at a few of them. Firstly make sure the server running the ‘user agent’ is listed under System >Integration > Identity Sources > User Agent. It probably goes without saying, but over on server running the user agent, make sure it...
Dell iDRAC: ‘Virtual Media is Detached’
KB ID 0001459 Problem I’d needed to present an .iso image to my Dell server and got this; Either Virtual Media is detached or Virtual Media redirection for the selected virtual disk is already in use Solution System > Console Media > Configuration > Virtual Console > Enabled (tick) > Status (Auto Attach) > Save. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
vSphere: Downgrading Guest ‘Hardware Version’
KB ID 0001458 Problem I always assumed this was either not possible, (without using VMware converter,) or at least very difficult. I downgraded one of my test ESX boxes from 6.5 to 5.5 this week, and needed to lower the hardware versions on some of my VMs accordingly. Solution Connect to the host ESX server via SSH, then navigate to the VMFS volumes; cd /vmfs/volumes Change directory so you are in the right ‘datastore’,...
Scheduled Task Error 0x1
KB ID 0001457 Problem While replacing a server, I copied over some scripts, (batch files) the client was using to back up some data. I scheduled them on the new server, but noticed they were finishing with a status of 0x1. (and not actually backing anything up!) Solution Edit the properties of the job > General Tab > Tick “Run with the highest privileges”. Note: You can also tick “Do not store password. This...