Friday, February 8, 2019

Cisco ASA Anyconnect, some users can't resolve DNS queries.

group-policy <name> attributes
 client-bypass-protocl enable

This will disable IPv6 if it's not enabled on the vpn.

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Windows Server 2019, The product key you entered didn't work. Check the product key and try again, or enter a different one. (0x80070490)

Open a command prompt as administrator.

Run-
c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <product_key>

OR

DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula


Tuesday, January 15, 2019

How to get your Dell Service Tag from the command prompt

How to get your Dell Service Tag from the command prompt-

Type-
wmic bios get serialnumber



Saturday, January 12, 2019

You try to upgrade a VMware ESXi host and get "conflicting vibs"

You try to upgrade a VMware ESXi host and get "The system encountered the following error(s)." "conflicting vibs"

SSH into the host.

esxcli software vib list | grep Mell
esxcli network nic liste
sxcli software vib remove -n net-mst

How to get an old iDrac7 to work with Java

Note- this is a bad idea from a security standpoint, so bear that in mind.



Open a command prompt as Administrator

Navigate to-  C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre1.8.0_131\lib\security

Edit java.security (notepad)

Remove the algorithms jdk.jar.disabledAlgorithms and comment out the line that begins with jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=.

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Autodiscover fails, Outlook says account is not found or password is invalid.

Autodiscover fails, Outlook says account is not found or password is invalid.

You go to https://<domain.com>/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml is accessible.  Some jack-hole web guy set up autodiscover on the website.  You can edit the registry to exclude the root domain.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover\
DWORD: ExcludeHttpsRootDomain
Value: 1

The other records you can exclude, also under the Autodiscover key are as follows. Use a value of 1 to enable, delete the key if you no longer want to exclude these checks.

DWORD: ExcludeScpLookup
DWORD: ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain
DWORD: ExcludeHttpRedirect //I DON’T EXCLUDE THIS ONE BECAUSE I USE IT
DWORD: ExcludeSrvRecord

To resolve permanently, log into cpanel and change the email routing from Local Mail Exchanger to Remote Mail Exchanger.Image result for cpanel 11.9 check remote exchanger first

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

You install Office Updates and Office Volume License tells you it isn't activated.

You install Office Updates (namely KB3141505, KB3128055, KB3127907 or KB3118330)  and Office Volume License tells you it isn't activated.

Go to the command prompt, run as administrator.
CD \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16 or the equivalent.
Type- cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
Grab the "Last 5 Characters of installed product key:" for each product has an error errorse)
Type- cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey: and the last 5 of the product key.