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[Tech Solutions]

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-*-?

[Tech Solutions]

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.

[Tech Solutions]

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 “^[.

[Tech Solutions]

Running Byobu by Default on Zsh

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

[Tech Solutions]

Favourite Linux CLI Tools

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

[Tech Solutions]

XBOX Support Phone Number UK

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

[Personal]

Raidmart NEVER delivered

Please be extremely wary of the company https://www.raidmart.com/

[Centos Linux Tech Solutions]

SOLVED: Yum 503 Service Unavailable

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

[Tech Solutions]

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.

[Music]

Bordering On Obsession Released!

Over the summer I took part in a song writing game/mission with other songwriters on the web and one of the resultant songs that came out of the exercise was Bordering on Obsession, a song about lost loves, aspirations and self examination.

[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.

[Tech Solutions Windows]

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.

[Personal]

Skype for Business Launch At Start Up Minimized Group Policy GPO

You think that having Skype launch minimized at start up would be an easy and well known Group Policy ADMX file or such… but no no no.

[Personal Windows]

Dism.exe Cleaning Up Invalid Images

After finishing editing and wim image using dism I was being left with Windows still thinking the image was still mounted somehow and not able to remount the image file.

[Personal]

Using Powershell To Get Windows Edition

Powershell: (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem).Caption Results in output like: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

[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.

[Exchange Powershell]

Powershell list all properties of an object

Some powershell get commands only output a handful of the object properties get-CalendarProcessing being one such command, than returns just one property.

[Active Directory Microsoft Tech Solutions]

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.

[MS Office Tech Solutions]

SOLVED: False cursor position when entering and editing text in a cell in Excel

Similar to this article I was experiencing a false cursor position and the cursor position and text shifting when editing versus when viewing the cell

Posts

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

Raidmart NEVER delivered

SOLVED: Yum 503 Service Unavailable

Powershell Speaking Clock

Bordering On Obsession Released!

SOLVED: Windows DHCP – Search for a MAC Address

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

Skype for Business Launch At Start Up Minimized Group Policy GPO

Dism.exe Cleaning Up Invalid Images

Using Powershell To Get Windows Edition

[Solved] WDS Driver Filters Not Working

Powershell list all properties of an object

Get Boot Time For all computers in an OU – Powershell

Easy GPO Audit Using Powershell

SOLVED: False cursor position when entering and editing text in a cell in Excel

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