Miscellanea
Miscellaneous links.
Miscellaneous links.
Daily “feel like an idiot” moment incoming: check your entity names and remember that the debugger can throw exceptions too.
TL;WR: If you can’t eject a disk and you have apps open, try closing them! Duh. Suggested Pairing: A third of your remaining tea/coffee vessel. Wasted 15 mi...
Any time I’ve needed the manual for this switch it’s been an absolute pain to find. Last time I had to dig around in some sketchy .ru open directory. Manual...
Preface: All of this is untested, lacking benchmarks, purely qualitative, and seriously failing at all aspects of scientific method or rigour. The following...
TL;WR: PowerBI can either cache your data or query it live. If you build a report cached (import mode) it won’t let you convert it to live (directquery). I d...
TL;WR: Windows update never got past checking for updates. Nothing worked. Used my private WSUS server and spoonfed it 10 updates at a time. Suggested Pairin...
Microsoft’s DPM documentation is wrong regarding the recovery methods for Hyper-V VM’s…
VMM Says: Error 20413 / 20770 🙄. Host says: You misconfigured my SMB settings.
What to double check (you did a first check right?) when live migrations are failing due to credential issues.
When I wrote this Zabbix HTTP LLD Rule documentation was… unhelpful at best. Here’s what I figured out.
Update: We did start having dependency issues after updating the MARS agent. It appears that the agent now depends on the management service. Not getting err...
TL;WR: None of the current Long Term (i.e. DPM 2016 as of 2019-02) DPM releases actually send updates to azure. So unless you’re on the bleeding edge DPM str...
TL;WR: If you’re trying to setup an S2D Hyper-Converged Cluster before adding it to your VMM Fabric: Don’t. It will work, but you won’t be able to see or man...
Ever wanted more than three recovery actions? Here’s a sketchy hack that you shouldn’t do!
The Exchange Online IMAP SEARCH implementation is not well documented
If you CTRL-C the New-VHD cmdlet the CIM Job will keep running in the background and prevent you from deleting the disk.
Possible cause and hackey temp-fix for the Office 365/Apps for Ent. WAM sign in page being almost completely blank.
Easy to miss behaviour when inserting page breaks in an excel document via VBA.
TL;WR Probably the SG90 acting up again. Those things are weird. Rebooting the SG90 and the Director server fixed it for me. YMMV. While moving around some ...
TL;WR: SIP Provider changed their 1xx-rel implementation when migrating from a Genman/cs2k platform to Metaswitch and removed the SDP from the final invite (...
SG series switches, T series, and probably others: Serial: Connect with a standard serial cable (dte to dce) 19200 N,8,1 User: anonymous Password:...
Thoughts on simple scheduled scripts without needing files or unprotected credentials.
I’m a stickler for keeping error logs clean where possible. I wanted to fix the VSS CAPI 513 error (https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/3209092) on my D...
Preface: Don’t use this, it’s really bad practice for PowerShell code to work by manipulating the host console window. It’ll work, but it’ll mess with loggin...
When I wrote this Zabbix HTTP LLD Rule documentation was… unhelpful at best. Here’s what I figured out.