Adsense: ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string’
KB ID 0001709 Problem A couple of weeks ago I logged into Adsense and saw this; ‘We’ve detected an error on your IAB TC string on one or more of your sites or apps. These errors may affect your ability to serve ads to European users. A detailed report is available for you on the EU user consent page’. Solution Well all of that made no sense to me, so I downloaded the report, which is a spreadsheet and it looked like...
VMware: Find Connected ISO’s
KB ID 0001708 Problem If you want to search your VMware estate to find VMs that have connected CD/DVD ISO files, then here are your best two options; Option 1: Use PowerCLI Whilst connected to your virtual infrastructure (Connect-VIServer) issue the following command; Get-VM | FT Name, @{Label=”ISO file”; Expression = { ($_ | Get-CDDrive).ISOPath }} Option 2: Use PowerCLI If you don’t already have RVTools then get it...
Cannot Open Exchange Management Shell
KB ID 0001707 Problem When attempting to open the Exchange Management shell you see the following; Welcome to the Exchange Management Shell! Full list of cmdlets: Get-Command Only Exchange cmdlets: Get-ExCommand Cmdlets that match a specific string: Help ** Get general help: Help Get help for a cmdlet: Help or -? Exchange team blog: Get-ExBlog Show full output for a command: | Format-List Show quick reference guide: QuickRef VERBOSE:...
Can I ‘Shrink’ My Exchange Database?
KB ID 0001706 Problem Saw this asked in a forum today, and my response was; It never gets smaller, if you delete things out of it, it just creates more ‘whitespace’ within the database, unless you; a) Take it offline, and defragment it using eseutil. b) Move the mailboxes out of it, to another database and delete it. Which is true, but even Microsoft say you should not need to defragment a database! Before you do anything...
Which Firepower To Replace Your ASA 5500-X?
KB ID 0001705 Problem Well the ASA5516-X was the last one to go end of sale. You may be able to get stock of the remainder of the ASA5500-X series as people clear their shelves, or they may be available as ‘refurb’ stock but they are disappearing. So you would think that the replacements would be better documented? Well it’s sketchy at best, and when you look a the data sheets for the new FPR range the links on...
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...
Hard Drive Full?
KB ID 0000012 Problem The fact that I’m going back to re-write article 0000012, should tell you this is an omnipresent problem! Either very suddenly, or slowly over time you have a drive or a volume that’s full to bursting point. These days with laptops which have smaller SSD drives it’s a common problem. I’ve seen literally hundreds of post in forums, most of them are answered with ‘Use...