tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58071167968378261022024-03-14T00:21:34.971+00:00ChronicBit - An Engineers blogJust another IT guy trying not to throw his PC at a wall!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-28779183035863580022018-01-17T14:55:00.001+00:002018-01-17T15:21:10.093+00:00Blank Lockscreen Image Windows 10 1709Another strange one today. After upgrading a PC to Windows 10 1709 build 16299 we found that our lockscreen image that had been set via GPO for over 2 years, was no longer showing. It was simply showing a blank assent colour.
After some aggressive Googling i came across someone who had sussed it was to do with a registry key that many of us set many moons ago, when the first versions of Windows Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-20644015409525504642018-01-17T12:20:00.001+00:002018-01-17T15:06:37.323+00:00Remove Show People button Windows 10 1709During testing of the latest Windows 10 Update (its definitely more of an upgrade ...thanks MS) version 1709 build 16299. I found that a little icon had appeared on the bottom tight of the taskbar. Things like this really annoy me so basically its going.
You can remove it by Right Clicking the Taskbar and clicking the button Show People Button. However in a corporate network, getting Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-42859398343631251662018-01-15T11:51:00.000+00:002018-01-15T11:51:17.656+00:00Configuring DKIM using Windows DNS and OpenSSLIn this post i will be explaining how to setup and configure DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail). This is used along with SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records to cryptographically sign emails so that the receiving mail server's know they are coming from you and not someone pretending to be you.
Resolution
In this article we will assume that you are using Windows and Windows DNS to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-2944758513396904262018-01-05T13:54:00.000+00:002018-11-02T08:51:40.891+00:00Disabling Proofing Tools and related options Word 2013/ 2016 for an ExamIn this post i am going to be describing an issue that has for a long time not been well documented, by either Microsoft or anyone else. This is the updated post to reflect the changes for 2016.
We had an exam requirement for many years for computer based exams to disable the spell check, thesaurus and grammar check facility and to remove the ability to re-enable it. The requirement wasAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-64175744073881232032014-04-01T15:09:00.002+01:002018-01-05T13:06:57.332+00:00Moodle Upgrade Hangs on -->SystemOver the last few months we have been unable to complete Moodle updates and upgrades. The problem was that when the upgrade was kicked off the upgrade would hang at the first stage. Shown in the image below.
We use all Microsoft technologies for our system.
NLB clustered Windows Server 2008 R2 (IIS 7.5)
PHP 5.2.13 (FastCGI)
SQL 2008 Failover Cluster
MSSQL PHP Driver (Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-82049454710892967122014-03-07T16:36:00.002+00:002018-01-05T12:37:30.809+00:00InfoPath Form Services Missing from SharePoint Server 2010I had an issue reported today where a user was trying to configure InfoPath Form services for a SharePoint 2010 Site.
Normally there is a section in Central Administration under General Application Settings called InfoPath Forms Services. On our server the section was missing entirely.
Resolution
The resolution for this is pretty simple. We simply need to install this feature as it Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-82434305050723869692014-03-06T11:17:00.003+00:002018-01-17T09:33:03.207+00:00Disabling Proofing Tools and related options Word 2010 for an ExamIn this post i am going to be describing an issue that has for a long time not been well documented, by either Microsoft or anyone else.
We had an exam requirement for many years for computer based exams to disable the spell check, thesaurus and grammar check facility and to remove the ability to re-enable it.
MS in their infinite wisdom created ADMX/ADM templates that give Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-24321468311231409882014-03-03T16:11:00.001+00:002018-01-05T12:37:11.628+00:00Migrating a 2003 Certificate Authority (CA) to 2008 R2We recently had a requirement to migrate an old Windows Server 2003 Standard Certificate Authority server, to a new 2008 R2 Enterprise system.
There aren't many good guides on the web, so i decided to create this one. The post below details the process of migrating and changing the name of the CA server.
Resolution
The posts below i found extremely helpful the first time i Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-58248164627150340752014-02-18T13:24:00.000+00:002018-01-05T12:38:12.791+00:00Moodle Upgrade - Command LineRecently i found that when attempting to upgrade a large Moodle site using the conventional browser based method, the server had a nasty habit of timing out on me. It is also notoriously difficult to see what is going on during an upgrade, when all you get is the spinning wheel in a browser.
Personally i found upgrading using the command line, much easier and much more informative than using theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-32421062647993073122014-02-18T10:44:00.003+00:002018-01-05T12:38:37.787+00:00SQL Server 2008 Restore - Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database.I came across an issue today where i needed to restore a backup of a database. The database backup needed to be restored to a database with a different name, but with the original database still in production on the same server.
When you attempt it you get the error below.
This can create an issue because the backup wants to restore to its original file location. The error isn't Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-84466678860587462572014-02-13T12:53:00.001+00:002018-01-05T12:39:42.792+00:00Cisco ASA 5520 VPN - Locked down to Active Directory groupWe recently had a requirement to secure our VPN used by staff, to only allow those who are a member of an Active Directory group to connect. This sounds like a pretty straightforward thing to accomplish, but i struggled with this for a few hours.
I found that there are several ways of doing this. I found out the easiest and best way, only after attempting the more complex method.
Resolution
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-54806125855312972812014-02-03T14:43:00.001+00:002018-01-05T12:40:08.769+00:00YouTube - "An Error has occured, please try again later" I had a very weird issue today, where a member of staff couldn't play a YouTube video. They kept getting the "snowy" background and the error "An Error has occurred, please try again later" after the video played for a second or two. This behavior is exhibited in IE only. Chrome seems to work fine.
I tracked the issue down to the fact that the PC the user had, had no speakers connected. "Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-61869283762375317932014-01-10T15:38:00.004+00:002018-01-05T12:41:06.608+00:00Network Load Balancing (NLB) 2008 Dual NICToday i was attempting to configure a new 2008 R2 Network Load Balanced IIS servers for a highly available Moodle environment. I hit an issue that meant for some reason my NLB IP address wouldn't respond to pings, even after implementing my Cisco fix here. My PC was in a different subnet so i tried to ping from the same subnet, and this worked.
Scenario
In my scenario i have two Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-18280899301031220662014-01-08T16:58:00.005+00:002018-01-05T12:41:44.644+00:00Using DSACL to reset permissions on Active Directory objectsToday an engineer brought something to my attention that was slightly strange. He told me that for some reason he could not reset passwords on some user accounts as all the fields were grayed out.
I had already used the Delegation of Control wizard to assign an front line engineers group permissions on the users OU, so this was very strange. After investigating further i found that heAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-8470555131212936372014-01-08T13:50:00.002+00:002018-01-05T12:42:31.303+00:00Network Load Balanced (NLB) Multicast Array on VMware ESX 5 using Cisco Switches/Routers
When using VMware Virtual Machines (VM) and Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB) in Multicast mode, there is some extra configuration that needs to be completed on the switching/routing side of things.
Basically in multicast mode, each node's NLB NIC has two MAC addresses assigned to it. One is the original one and the other is a virtual one assigned by NLB. This causes some problems Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807116796837826102.post-49761484266931646262014-01-08T13:42:00.000+00:002018-01-05T12:47:40.350+00:00Welcome...
Hello and welcome to another rambling blog...
Yes it's another one of these blogs that IT guys write, to fill in the boring parts of the day. I will be posting over the coming weeks and months about my experiences and knowledge gained working as an IT Engineer, mostly focusing on things that have irritated me to the point of throwing my PC at a wall.
The main topic of my Blog will be tips, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06914196287045143463noreply@blogger.com