Cisco ASA: Allow VPN Traffic “Through” A Cisco Firewall
KB ID 0001428 Problem I got asked to put in a VPN for a client, this week, it went from a simple site to site, to a site to site with a Fortigate firewall at one end, to a VPN from and ASA to a Fortigate ‘through’ another ASA. It’s been a few years since I had to tunnel ‘through’ a firewall, and experience tells me, if you don’t have control of BOTH ends of a new VPN tunnel, anything that stops...
Dell iDRAC “The Webpage Cannot Be Found”
KB ID 0001427 Problem I needed to reboot one of my ESX hosts yesterday, so I jumped on the DRAC and got this? An internet search turned up, “The best way to fix this is, firmware update the iDRAC”, which I did. But sadly it didn’t fix the problem. Solution In IE11 they have done a good job of hiding compatibility settings > Options > Compatibility View Settings > Type in the IP/URL > Add > Close >...
Audacity: ‘Click Track’ Missing?
KB ID 0001426 Problem While attempting to generate a ‘Click Track’ in Audacity, I could not find the option? Solution There are a couple of reasons why this can happen, firstly you don’t have the ‘Nyquist’ effect enabled, (Audacity > Preferences> Effects). But that wasn’t the case for me. Open a Terminal window, and execute the following command; sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine...
Event ID 1006
KB ID 0001425 Problem Seen on an Exchange 2016 Server Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeDiagnostics Date: XX/XX/XXXX XX:XX:XX Event ID: 1006 Task Category: Triggers Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: EX2016 Description: The performance counter ‘\\EX2016\MSExchange Assistants – Per Database(msexchangemailboxassistants-2016-mailbox-database)\Event Dispatchers Catching Up’ sustained a value of...
Remote Desktop Services: Balancing Sessions Hosts and Connection Brokers
KB ID 0001424 Problem I got an email from a colleague who was setting up an RDS farm, (2012 R2). He was having some problems and asked me; “If the Connection Broker brokers the connections to the Session Hosts, how do I RDP to the Session Broker?” This threw me completely, I usually jump on the console in VMware or use a third party remote management tool, I don’t tend to to RDP onto servers. I had fallen into the...