Install Windows Terminal on Windows Server 2022
Windows Terminal KB ID 0001827 Problem Note: Terminal is already built into Windows 11. I’ve been aware of Windows Terminal for a while, I’ve just never felt the need to set it up. Most of my work for the website involves me taking screenshots on Windows Server OS. So, when I decided to take a look at it I had to jump through a few hoops to get it to work, in the words of Juan Sánchez Villalobos Ramírez, Chief metallurgist to King...
Exchange 2016 (& 2013) Enable Circular Logging
KB ID 0001224 Problem Let’s be clear about this, the correct way to flush/clear the Exchange logs is to perform a backup of the mailbox database in question, with an ‘Exchange aware’ piece of backup software. This will clear down the logs properly. Why Do We Need Logs? Well I’m glad you asked, if there’s a problem, and we lose the database, we can ‘play’ the log files back into the database to...
NetScaler – Locate the Host ID
KB ID 0001187 Problem To apply a license to your NetScaler you need the supply the Host ID to the licensing portal. A quick internet search yielded the commands, but the were not working? Solution Note: If this is a new installation, the username and password will both be set to nsroot. Whatever I was reading, didn’t tell me I needed to drop to shell mode! shell lmutil lmhostid As you can see this ones 0050569d5a96, (which I...
Cisco FireSIGHT – Enable Active Directory (LDAP) Authentication
KB ID 0001102 WARNING this is for older versions of the FirePOWER Management Platform, go to the following link for newer versions Cisco FirePOWER Management Appliance – Allowing Domain Authentication Problem To save you creating multiple users on your FireSIGHT appliance, and assigning roles to them you can utilise your existing Active Directory. In fact FireSIGHT does a good job of enabling granular administration based on AD...