VMware: Cannot Resize a VMs Hard Drive?
KB ID 0001704 Problem One of the lads in support messaged me this week, he needed to raise the size of the hard drive on a VM, and the option was greyed out (not available). Solution Now assuming you actually have the rights to do this, the problem is ‘nearly always’ that the ‘disk’ in question has an active snapshot on it. Remove your snapshots first. Now you can raise the size. Don’t forget: In your OS...
Exchange 2019: How Many CALs/SALs Do You Need?
KB ID 0001703 Problem At his point I’m going to assume you know that there are Standard Exchange CALs/SALs, and Enterprise Exchange CALs/SALs. And you know the difference! If you’re unsure see my comments here. With older versions of Exchange 2010/2007 etc. You could get this information from the GUI. Now you need to use some PowerShell. Solution The two commands you want to use are; Find Out How Many Exchange Standard...
Windows Server 2019 (&2016): Enable Flash
KB ID 0001484 Problem Back in server 2012 this was an easy fix; Windows Server 2012 – Enable Flash However try and do that on Server 2019 or 2016 and this happens; Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\Users\administrator.PNL> Install-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience Install-WindowsFeature : ArgumentNotValid: The role, role service, or feature name is not valid:...
Safari: Not Showing all Bookmarked Favourites
KB ID 0001702 Problem Recently my Safari browser on my MacBook updated, somehow this managed to break Microsoft Edge, a reboot fixed that. The problem was, it was now only showing a ‘reduced’ number of bookmarks from my favourites, (only 24 bookmarks) i.e. Even if I clicked in the navigation bar, (only 12 bookmarks) from my favourites; Solution A Google search didn’t turn up the answer, clicking on the setting logo...
AnyConnect: ‘Quick and Dirty’ Duo 2FA
KB ID 0001701 Problem Normally if I were deploying Duo 2FA with AnyConnect I’d deploy a Cisco RADIUS VPN on my LAN, (usually on my Duo Authentication Proxy). See the following article; AnyConnect: Enable Duo 2Factor Authentication However, last time I set this up, a colleague said ‘Oh by the way, you don’t need to do that, you can just point the firewall directly at Duo’. I was initially skeptical but I tried...