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ESP32-CAM (aithinker) and Shinobi camera recorder

Posted on 2024 October 12 @ 03:10:03 by admin

Using the code in the previous post I can now place several ESP32’s around the house and stream them to my little server. Installed a debian vm, and added a 2TB SSD drive for storage. It is streamed to an … Continue reading →

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ESP32-CAM (aithinker) module with stable camera

Posted on 2024 October 12 @ 02:10:10 by admin

The ESP32-CAM module that I got cheap online didn’t want to stay connected. After reading a bit, I found a good write about it on: I edited the standard cameraserver.ino and ended up with something that makes it run more … Continue reading →

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One letter file extensions on win11

Posted on 2022 February 16 @ 02:02:07 by admin

Shame MS, couldn’t adjust it through Settings / Apps / Default Apps as you don’t allow one letter extensions there. -sigh- So, Windows 11 does not allow you to adjust a one letter file extension.This is annoying, I had to … Continue reading →

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Add Azure AD user to local admin on a workstation

Posted on 2021 April 02 @ 02:04:30 by admin

Add an azure AD user as local admin on a workstation: cmd as admin net localgroup administrators AzureAD\<username> /add Admin rights required to do this, ofcourse, <username> is the upn address of the local user you want to add.

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VEEAM Failed to process OneDrive

Posted on 2020 November 24 @ 11:11:51 by admin

In VEEAM O365 Backup, I got the error: :: Failed to process OneDrive: <Full Name> (https://xxxx-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<username>). The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. Apparantly rights have not quite been set right on the onedrives over at this customer, so … Continue reading →

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No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider ‘NuGet’

Posted on 2020 November 18 @ 01:11:56 by admin

To solve the issue with nuget, open elevated powershell  (as admin), and perform the following command: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 The command does not give any reply. This enables TLS1.2 which is probably required by now. Try your nuget command again. … Continue reading →

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VMware 7.0 on Intel NUC with vusb0 – not yet fully working… :(

Posted on 2020 May 11 @ 03:05:38 by admin

I wanted to see if I could install vmware 7.0 on my Intel NUC with unsupported onboard network nic, hence I will try vusb0. Conclusion: Buggy. VMware runs, but creating a virtual machine is problematic.   02-10-2020 Edit: VMware 7.0 … Continue reading →

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VMware resize VMFS partition and datastore

Posted on 2020 February 26 @ 01:02:14 by admin

Resize VMFS Partition ESXi Also see https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2002461 Get Datastore: vmkfstools -P /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/ VMFS-6.82 (Raw Major Version: 24) file system spanning 1 partitions. File system label (if any): DATASTORE Mode: public Capacity 1920118816768 (1831168 file blocks * 1048576), 813595361280 (775905 blocks) … Continue reading →

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What I noticed about VMware 6.7 and hpssacli vs ssacli

Posted on 2020 February 06 @ 04:02:20 by admin

The HP tooling for use with HP Raid controllers on the ESX cli was called hpssacli. It resided somewhere in in /opt/hp… It is now /opt/smartstorageadmin/ssacli/bin/ssacli Hope this helps you 🙂

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Fortigate – Recognise Active Directory Users, Windows Server 2019

Posted on 2020 January 24 @ 04:01:38 by admin

Reading through some googled stuff and one youtube vid to find out how it works. Log on with your Fortigate account at https://support.fortinet.com/Download/FirmwareImages.aspx Yes you should have an account to get to the firmwares and downloads. (edit: Click tab Download, Select … Continue reading →

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Working with Windows Active Direcory, transferring FSMO roles from one DC to another.

Posted on 2020 January 14 @ 10:01:28 by admin

Today I had to move the fsmo-roles, and phase out an old DC. These days you can powershell it. Since you are working with Active Directory, log in as an admin user, fire up powershell and a do a: Import-Module … Continue reading →

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userAccountControl, Attributes for AD Users

Posted on 2019 December 11 @ 10:12:56 by admin

I needed this today for use in querying a large AD. Repost. Credits go to http://www.selfadsi.org/ads-attributes/user-userAccountControl.htm   you can query with this e.g. with powershell and do some counting: (Get-ADUser -LDAPFilter “(&(sAMAccountName=*)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))” -SearchBase ‘OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=local’ ).Count But could also check if … Continue reading →

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Sonos controller app for Windows, download link

Posted on 2019 September 08 @ 11:09:44 by admin

It was somewhat hard to locate, so here is the link to the windows (10) download for the Sonos Controller: https://www.sonos.com/redir/controller_software_pc Cheers

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HP 2530-24G (J9773A) OID’s for CRC ERR

Posted on 2019 April 10 @ 12:04:15 by admin

For my own documentation purposes, here are a bunch of OID’s for SNMP monitoring on a HP 2530-24G managed switch. I needed to monitor each port for errors. Apparantly the errors can be obtained using an OID for each port: … Continue reading →

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Powershell connect to Azure

Posted on 2018 December 19 @ 11:12:50 by admin

I needed this today to quickly find a solution as to why a virtual machine was not running, and had to retrieve some info about an application that runs a script. Start powershell as admin Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -force Install-Module AzureRM … Continue reading →

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Ubiquity EdgeRouter Lite on “Telfort” glass fiber VLAN config and configure VLAN masquerading rules

Posted on 2018 December 13 @ 04:12:45 by admin

So, here is my EdgeRouter config, edited a little for security reasons. I hope this may help you. Cheers!   Short description: I use glass fiber from my ISP “Telfort” which uses VLAN 34 on eth1.34 (eth1 vif 34, using … Continue reading →

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Use a Sonicwall directly on Telfort glass fiber VLAN using a virtual interface.

Posted on 2018 October 19 @ 11:10:57 by admin

With the glass fiber in my home I got a louzy ethernet router from my isp Telfort. Ofcourse I understand they want to keep things affordable for everyone so they hand out these routers free (free as in you lease … Continue reading →

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mstsc credSSP error and client reg fix

Posted on 2018 September 05 @ 02:09:29 by admin

CredSSP and mstsc authentication gives some error sometimes, after installing some needed updates, but e.g. youir server is not yet up to date. You can set back a reg entry… this one: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\CredSSP\Parameters] “AllowEncryptionOracle”=dword:00000002 On … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2010 removing active sync devices, as removing devices hangs for the user in OWA.

Posted on 2018 August 30 @ 02:08:11 by admin

Hiyall, Today at an old server for a customer, a user wanted to finally add one last active sync device, but he already had some listed. Time to remove some, he thought, as he can do this through ye olde … Continue reading →

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Local Exchange Management [power]Shell target info

Posted on 2018 August 21 @ 03:08:45 by admin

This is the ‘target’ of a locally installed MS Exchange Management [power]Shell. C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -noexit -command “. ‘D:\Exchange\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1’; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto -ClientApplication:ManagementShell ” (witih exchange installed on D-drive locally) Just FYI, I needed this today. cheers.

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Convert wav to wav from 8bit to 16bit with ffmpeg cmdline for 3cx from NEC SV8100

Posted on 2018 August 17 @ 12:08:55 by admin

Today I had to convert audio messages from a NEC pbx to the format a 3cx pbx uses. These are the digital audio intro messages etc. that you get when you call e.g. the main telephone number of a company. … Continue reading →

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Turning on Windows Defender after manual deinstallation of Trend Micro

Posted on 2018 August 07 @ 12:08:09 by admin

After a manual deinstallation of Trend Micro Worry Free Business Security 9.0, Windows Defender did not automatically see that it could turn on its antivirus component. Done as prescribed here: https://success.trendmicro.com/solution/1056867-manually-uninstalling-the-security-agent-sa-in-worry-free-business-security-wfbs#collapseOne It took me a while to find this solution, so … Continue reading →

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HP Accesspoints and blinking LEDS

Posted on 2018 June 19 @ 03:06:25 by admin

Here’s a list of blinking leds on HP MSM accesspoints and HP 425 accesspoint. I was tired of looking it up all the time, and since these are end-of-life I may well copy that information from HP to my site … Continue reading →

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Retrieve MS-SQL version info without MS SQL Studio

Posted on 2018 May 04 @ 01:05:42 by admin

After digging around for a customer to update their ms-sql server for an application, I had to find out the version they were using first. Not having the Visual studio tools installed, there’s a cmdline tool that can do this. … Continue reading →

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Exchange, Disable spam filter for a receive connector

Posted on 2018 May 04 @ 11:05:15 by admin

You may want to disable the spam filter for e.g. a connector that sends your invoices. Get-ReceiveConnector “SERVER\ReceiveConnector” | Add-ADPermission -User “NT Authority\Anonymous Logon”  -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights ms-exch-ypass-anti-spam Hope this helps you!  

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