Archive for 2024

Data center temperature monitoring on the cheap

28th March 2024

Project: https://www.hackster.io/news/adafruit-s-new-usb-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-trinkey-provides-plug-and-play-logging-fb1440d47996 Ready made Products: https://www.craftcomputing.com/s/shop Wifi $65, PoE $85

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Lenovo St550

26th March 2024

Look on the pull out tag for the Kvm Password reset IpKvm (xClarity) to factory settings Raid Config F1 UEFI setupsystem settings 4sotrageclick cardmain menudrive managementconfirm good state exitconfig mgtcreate…

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Changing KRBTGT Password, safely

22nd March 2024

M$ has a powershell script that tests if all the DCs are online and replication is successful before changing the Krbtgt password. M$ recommend changing this password every 180days. here

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Synology NAS no file shares from Win11

21st March 2024

You can see the error log atMain menu, Log Centerclick logs on the left and connection logs in the top right Fix here Involves setting the Win11 pc to send…

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Windows Update KB5034441

7th February 2024

Windows tries to install an update that is too large for the standard 500mb recovery partition, and fails every time. Good News! Microsoft made a powershell patch that works even…

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TrueNas Scale no Users showing

6th February 2024

If Users or Groups are missing, Login using Firefox for whatever reason Chrome doesn’t work right and clearing cookies doesn’t help

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Fortigate to Unifi VPN

This was shockingly easy I removed all the phase 1 encryption methods that weren’t being used and any DH group that didn’t match the Unifi The Phase 2 proposal was…

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Fortigate New Firewall setup

2nd February 2024

Mostly for me to remember what to do Plug laptop into Lan1, surf to https://192.168.1.99 login with admin and NO PASSWORD, should be prompted to change the passwordLogin again and…

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Errors Installing vSphere 8

30th January 2024

Installing vSphere from the 8.0.2 image doesn’t work. use the 8.0.1 image and upgrade afterward Installing vSphere from the 8.0.0 image has an expired root password (sigh) and needs to…

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SonicWall PPPoE password recovery

9th January 2024

This is why we don’t recommend Sonicwall I am replacing an out of support Sonicwall with a Fortigate firewall Nobody knows the PPPoE password because why would they Get into…

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