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These are the steps taken from my notes to reset/change an administrator password on a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard install. I used Ubuntu and chntpw and the Windows partition was not encrypted. Boot from Ubuntu live disk Switch to … Continue reading →

This affects the minimum and maximum speeds allowed for throttling of reshaping and checking activities of mdadm. To monitor the current speed sudo cat /proc/mdstat To temporarily adjust the speed use the commands below. They will reset to defaults on … Continue reading →

When trying to perform apt-get update on OMV 4.1.27-1 (Arrakis), I received the following error Hit:10 https://packages.openmediavault.org/public arrakis InRelease Exception ignored in: <function WeakValueDictionary.__init__.<locals>.remove at 0x7fd4ea277598> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python3.5/weakref.py”, line 117, in remove TypeError: ‘NoneType’ object … Continue reading →

When reviewing the share permissions on a printer added to Windows Server 2019, it had a principal present with the following name: S-1-15-3-1024-4044835139-2658482041-3127973164-329287231-3865880861-1938685643-461067658-1087000422 This SID was present on two different servers and permissions allowed were set for Print and Manage … Continue reading →

This was a Windows Server 2019 that would log the following error every hour: The atc service failed to start due to the following error: Windows cannot verify the digital signature for this file. A recent hardware or software change … Continue reading →

When trying to perform a File Backup job using Veeam Backup and Replication (specifically version 10.0.0.4461) it would randomly fail with An unexpected network error occurred. This backup job was configured to backup a local NFS File Share to a … Continue reading →

If you forgot the login credentials for the web account, here is how to perform the reset. Access the VM appliance console Stop the PowerChute service /etc/init.d/PowerChute stop Edit the configuration file vi /opt/APC/PowerChute/group1/pcnsconfig.ini  In the [NetworkManagementCard] section of the … Continue reading →

A CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD unit originally came with two batteries, B.B. Battery HR1234W with dimensions 6.00 x 2.60 x 3.70 in. (LxWxH).  If you replaced them and forgot how to wire them back up, you can refer to the below diagram:

I had a CentOS 7 system running WordPress and received the warning: WordPress has detected that your site is running on an insecure version of PHP.  The system was running PHP 5.6 which is end of life, so here are … Continue reading →

Attempting to backup a Windows Server 2012 R2 Server with the Veeam Agent freshly installed and Backup and Replication server version 9.5 (also 10). The administrator credentials for the source server had been added to the destination server (Backup and … Continue reading →