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Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

The problem with removing Nagios scheduled downtime When you schedule downtime for all services of a host, there’s a Nagios button for that.

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Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

After much trawling of the Internet I found an interesting take on the pain of moving a Sharepoint page from one site to another, using Power Automate.

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Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

A post on tiktok where a young lad responded to a commenter “Why do you put your pronouns when you’re cis gender” made way too much sense.

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Using MFA for Sudo Only

Passwords are weak, we know this and so often methods such as key based authentication is used for connections like SSH.

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Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

After banging my head against this problem from a different server, as WSL is not there yet for running as personal production services, I finally managed to hit the right keywords to google fu the answer.

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Checking an Certificate Chain

Use the following one liner to check the a certificate chain in detail:

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Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

Run the following shell command to add all installed syntax files to your .

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BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Add the following to your /etc/rkhunter.conf file #Config to add byobu files to your allow list ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/shm/byobu-*-?

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Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

You could check for the existence of /var/run/reboot-required just to see if a reboot is needed but it’s more useful to check the existence and contents of /var/run/reboot-required.

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Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

I was trying to get this working by configuring the MAIL_CMD like so: echo -e “Subject: [rkhunter] Warnings found for ${HOST_NAME}\n\n” $(egrep -x “^[.

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Running Byobu by Default on Zsh

To make Byobu default on your local machine Byobu-enable only currently modifies your .

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Favourite Linux CLI Tools

This will be a continually updated list of my favourite Linux CLI tools

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XBOX Support Phone Number UK

UK Number: 020 7365 9792 or Freephone: 0800 587 1102

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SOLVED: Yum 503 Service Unavailable

This post was an absolute life save, Yum was being blocked by our application aware firewall Palo Alto

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Powershell Speaking Clock

After a phone system upgrade we were unable to get the speaking clock within the office, which started off a conversation about how much it costs to call, presently 50p per call in the UK.

[Microsoft Powershell Tech Solutions Windows]

SOLVED: Windows DHCP – Search for a MAC Address

This is a super succinct method of finding a mac address on a Window s DHCP server: https://thewayeye.

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SOLVED: Windows does not have enough information to verify the certificate

Problem When moving from one ADFS server to another I imported a full certificate chain and private key into Machine certs on the new Windows 2016.

[Powershell Tech Solutions Windows]

[Solved] WDS Driver Filters Not Working

Like many people it seems I’ve been scratching my head as to why WDS’s Driver Package Filters were not matching my hardware when imaging a machine that I’d created a driver package group for.

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Get Boot Time For all computers in an OU – Powershell

I wrote the following script enumerates an OU and then looks up the last boot time for each computer.

[Microsoft Powershell Tech Solutions Windows]

Easy GPO Audit Using Powershell

After poking around the Group Policy Objects (GPO) of an infrastructure that was new to me I needed a decent way of producing a quick and useful report on the state of the GPOs.

Tech Solutions

Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

Checking an Certificate Chain

Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

Running Byobu by Default on Zsh

Favourite Linux CLI Tools

XBOX Support Phone Number UK

SOLVED: Yum 503 Service Unavailable

Powershell Speaking Clock

SOLVED: Windows DHCP – Search for a MAC Address

SOLVED: Windows does not have enough information to verify the certificate

[Solved] WDS Driver Filters Not Working

Get Boot Time For all computers in an OU – Powershell

Easy GPO Audit Using Powershell

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