PowerCLI: Get All Snapshot Information
KB ID 0001690 Problem This was asked on EE today, and it was an interesting one so I wrote it up. How to locate all the Snapshots in your VMware virtual infrastructure, and see how much space they are taking. Solution Use the following PowerCLI; Get-Snapshot * | Select-Object -Property VM, Name, SizeGB, Children | Sort-Object -Property sizeGB -Descending | ft -AutoSize Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links...
AnyConnect: Allow ‘Local’ LAN Access
KB ID 0001689 Problem Note: This WONT WORK if you ‘force-tunnel’ or ‘tunnel-all’ remote VPN traffic, (if you are unsure Google ‘what’s my ip’ > Take note of it > Connect to AnyConnect and repeat the procedure, if your public IP address has changed to the IP address of the ASA then you force-tunnel/tunnel-all traffic). With more people remote working now, I’m getting a lot more...
VMware Converter ‘A file I/O Error Occurred’
KB ID 0001688 Problem It seems every time I use VMware Converter, there’s some new error that jumps up and makes me stumble! Yesterday the problem was; FAILED: A file I/O error occurred while accessing Solution Some searching told me this is actually a DNS problem, (where the converter could not resolve the DNS name of the machine being converted). BUT I had put the FQDN directly into this machines ‘hosts file’ so I...
Patch Your DNS Servers! SigRed
KB ID 0001687 Problem WARNING: This is rated 10 on the CVSS scale. Affected Server OS: Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2, Windows 2016, Windows 2019 Yesterday Microsoft released a critical notice (KB4569509) to address vulnerabilities identified in (CVE-2020-1350). Basically it allows a remote attacker to perform remote code execution on your DNS servers (unless you patch them!) The reason its...
Cisco FTD: AMP/URL Filtering/Threat Detection and AVC
KB ID 0001686 Problem This brings me to the end of my recent FTD articles. Although this is not a complete run though of all the capabilities, it will point you in the right direction to enable; AMP Inspection. URL Filtering. IDS/IPS Inspection. AVC Inspection. Solution Each of these is a ‘Licensed Feature’ which means it’s going to cost you. Not only that, but you need to have the licences in your Cisco Smart...