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For my home network, I run Pi-Hole in docker containers in separate hosts. Whenever making a change such as creating a local DNS entry on one Pi-hole means logging into the other Pi-hole and making the same change, not ideal. So I’ve tried looking for a solution to this. I did give Gravity sync a
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Sometimes after performing a Firmware upgrade on FortiGate HA pairs, I find that after sometime the cluster still stays out of sync and won’t synchronise. I usually find this is because the checksums of the config files on each or some members are different. To quickly check if this is the case, fire up the
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I was recently engaged with a large health-care provider in deploying a set of FortiWeb VMs to protect a number of web applications. Part of this deployment included setting up Single-Sign on for the admin interface using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). While the process is fairly straightforward it is a little confusing at some
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Long time since I’ve posted – I promise I’ve been very busy with life. I was recently assisting a customer with a CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor deployment and we were in the process of updating the gold images in their VDI platform, Amazon WorkSpaces. CrowdStrike have a nice installation document on their website that you can
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I am a fan of Windows Terminal and some of the recent things Microsoft seem to be doing for SysAdmins. I like having all the tools I need in a single spot. Adding the AWS CLI is fairly straight forward but makes life a heap easier. Start by installing Python from python.org if you don’t
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I’m not a fan of the Bing button that now appears in Edge. Microsoft seem to have rushed it out as there isn’t an easy way to remove it. We’ll do this via a registry key (that can also be deployed via Group Policy) Close out of Microsoft Edge completely and open the Registry Editor
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If you’ve shipped some Ubiquiti Unifi Wireless access points to a remote site before adopting them or happen to have your controller on another network, you can log into them via SSH and point them to your Unifi controller. It performs discovery via basic L2 broadcast and DNS resolution of hostname unifi, if either of
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It’s been a while, but I am working on deploying an updated version of FortiClient for and company which is managed via EMS and InTune. One thing that bugs me (and many) is by default, the client UI will load into the Zero Trust Telemetry tab and the option to change the Default tab will
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I was trying to log into an APC UPS with the correct login but still received an error, The maximum number of web connections has been reached or simply Maximum connections reached. Knowing I had the right login credentials, and that no one else was logged into, I was a little perplexed. There is a
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So been a while since my last post. I’ve been recently pushing our machines into Azure as well as automating as much as possible. We’ve got an internal Jira instance that we use. It is still running totally on a VM with no fancy Azure PaaS features on it. I have a Lets Encrypt SSL
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So just a quick one today. I was recently working on a SQL Server, running through some Database Mail setup and testing (see Microsoft Docs) with one of our applications. I needed a way to see what e-mails were being sent out as well as what wasn’t. The below queries will give you the info
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Start by going into Event Viewer (Windows+R or the Start Menu and type eventvwr.msc). Navigate to the System Log under Windows, we then want to use Filter Current Log to allow us to only show Events with certain attributes (such as Source or IDs). In our case, we want to filter on Event Source: USER32.
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So getting BitLocker enabled in an Active Directory environment is fairly painless and helps to get your end user devices more Secure. I’ll outline the steps you need to take to enable it as well as get the recovery keys stored in Active Directory. I’ll also dive into replicating this setup on Azure AD/Intune in
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We’ve started to deploy the latest release of Windows 10 and it’s interesting to note that Microsoft have released with little fan-fare some changes to the way Updates are deployed for the 1903 release. Microsoft are now pushing updates through what is called the Unified Update Platform (see this RPC Mag article). Anyway, the main
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I’ve been working on needed to copy a number of files from one client site to another, my issue is that they have separate Active Directory domains and there is no trust between them. Using PowerShell, we can save a user credential and then use that to map a network drive with them and perform
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