We setup an on-premise ticketing system, and we needed to setup an SSL on them. We have the ticketing software on an Amazon EC2 Instance, our DNS nameservers have been set to amazon in Godaddy DNS settings. We have two copies of the ticketing system on one of the IIS 10 webserver EC2 Instances. One is for our customers, and…
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O365 – Email Migration link
When trying to migrate emails from IMAP, POP, etc you get the an error in O365 Admin Center. I was able to complete the transfer via this link: https://portal.office.com/onboarding/mailsetupadvisor#/
Send an Email Using Command Prompt or Batch File Script with PowerShell
This will allow you to to call a powershell script from a batch file that creates and sends an email. You will need: SMTP Outgoing Server SMTP Outgoing Credentials Apply this line to any Batch file line. Our example: robocopy C:\Data D:\Data /L /MIR /Z /Copy:DAT /DCOPY:T /J /mt /tee /r:1 /W:1 /ETA /xd “$RECYCLE.BIN” /log+:”C:\RCLogs.txt” PowerShell.exe -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass…
Disable Windows Anti-Malware Service Executable
Microsoft is driving me crazy with these “forced” features they have been including with windows. An example of this is Window’s Anti-Malware. It runs in the background scanning everything you do. This can be good for an average users, but for someone that wants to transfer 12 TB from a USB device to a Network share, it well, slows it…
Understanding the Differences between Wiping and Formatting Your Hard Drive.
One of the questions I get most often, is what to do with old hardware. With this question, the primary concern is how to format the drive before they discard it. Most people know they need to format their drive, but they don’t know that just formatting the drive leaves it vulnerable to data recovery solutions, and who knows what…
Disable Clutter through O365 Admin Dashboard with Powershell
Disable clutter on O365 Admin Dashboard Step 1: Run Powershell ISE as Administrator Step 2 – Run: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned A popup will occur, choose “Yes to All”. Just make sure you know what you are doing before proceeding. Step 3 – Enter username and Password $UserCredential = Get-Credential -It will not let you know if your credentials are wrong. Step…
Setting up custom App Passwords in Gmail for smtp email notifications in pfSense
Setting up custom App Passwords in Gmail for smtp notifications in pfSense I needed to setup Custom notifications for pfSense, which requires an smtp account. This process will work for most systems that you use to send out emails via smtp. I chose gmail for this, gmail will block the sending of smtp accounts through anonymous sources, unless you setup…
Halloween Morning Workout 10-30-2017
Get your candy ridden body in gear and burn some calories. This workout will get your heart rate up. Warm-up Dynamic Stretching Quick Jog 100m 5 pushups 5 Squats 5 Lunges 40-Min AMRAP 10 burpees 40 Flutter Kicks Sprint 30 yrds 4x Times, 20 Second rests inbetween 15 Lunges 20 Suitcase crunches 10 Burpees 1 Minute Plank Jacks Can you…
Upgrading Team Foundation Server, TFS 2010 to TFS 2017
Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2017 and SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2016 The Problem We need to upgrade a physical server, we will call it “Tcode”. Tcode has Server 2008 32bit installed with TFS 2010 and SQL Server 2008. Since our machine is a production machine, I need to do this gracefully. With so many different “ways” to do…
Going into Crisis Mode
Going into Crisis Mode If you have been in IT long enough, you end up experiencing a “Crisis Mode” day. You know, you click a button and immediately all hell breaks loose, then instantly, your brain clicks into crises mode. I had another one today. Tried to update our firewall, which normally has no issues, and comes right back up.…
