VmWare How to find DataStore IP addresses
Host->Configure>Storage Adapter->ISCSI Adapters and in the lower under Details the “Paths” tab props to IRIX201110141 @VmWare for pointing this out
Apple devices Private Address
Private Address is an Apple setting that attempts to keep the user’s identity private by cycling the MAC/hardware address frequently, making the Layer2 connection hard to track. This setting is ON by default. This causes problems when the DHCP lease time is set at a long duration, ie 8 days. Now imagine if you had …
Ubiquiti Unifi on Docker + Portainer
the Unifi software can find new devices but they can’t adopt successfully Solution: the Unifi controller doesn’t know the IP address outside of docker. use the following command to lookup the IP address of your linux host ip addr then in the NEW Unify UI goto Settings, System, Application Configuration, Override Inform Host=ON, and enter …
Windows Licensing Notes
OEM, Retail, Volume, (RetailUpgrade doesn’t exist anymore ?) An eval install must be upgraded/licensed using a RETAIL version standard (max 2 HyperV)/datacenter(Unlimited HyperV) Openpurchase the license, own it forever, options like Software support can be addedsub options for Business, Charity, Education, Government, Health Open Valuespread out over three annual payments and you own the license …
FOSS Security tools & maturity
Wazuh; looks perdy, breaks when updated (sudo yum update) SecurityOnion; install script is hateful. AlienVault; Web interface is not intuative/user friendly. Update from WebGui
VmWare housekeeping
VmWare should have some yearly maintenance where old .log files are cleaned up. I’m told these are just performance data and records of past operations. Use the datastore browser and find vmware-##.log files that are over 6 months old and delete them. don’t delete vmware.log this likely isn’t possible while the VM is running. as …
Windows 7 Outlook stopped working
Microsoft has quietly dropped support for an older TLS version, Windows 7 pre-dates the TLS series so it needs to be installed as a windows update and I have had to add a registry key to get these systems working. A lot of info here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/plan-design/security/enable-tls-1-2-client Outlook doesn’t require .NET framework so ignore that in …
Luxul Wifi
Don’t try to setup a guest wifi in a vlan unless you are onsite. when you turn on vlans, ALL packets need to be tagged and it DISCARDS all untagged packets normal switches have a PVID or a default untagged vlan so packets don;t just disappear into the void. but not Luxul if you turn …
Drivers
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/