Attempting to remove a server from the Resource Authorization Policies groups gives the following error “WMI Failure: Unable to update local resource group” After some investigation we found that two of the RDS Servers defined on the Remote Desktop Broker were showing as unavailable. In our case these servers were…
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Search Azure Blob for File
Unfortunately the Azure Storage Explorer or Azure Portal doesn’t allow you to search for a filename stored on a blob, so a simple way to is to run PowerShell script to return the results and paths. This example outputs to a .csv Hope that helps!
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Changing Azure SQL Firewall using Runbook
This Runbook will Add/Modify the Firewall Rules on an Azure SQL Server. This can be run interactively by removing the AzureRunAsConnection section. Additional it can be configured to run using Params (post to follow later)
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Retaining the same IP address in Azure Site Recovery
Let’s say you need to retain your hardcoded IP Address when you migrate VMWare VM’s to Azure using Azure Site Recovery, in this case I want to my server to retain it’s IP Address of 10.0.198.203 Here’s how you complete this. Login to the Azure Portal Open your Site Recovery…
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Install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04.1 AWS instance.
Nothing particularly difficult here, I just decided to put it all together in one place. This is for Ubuntu 18.04.1 on AWS. Once you’re connected via SSH to your AWS instance just follow these steps. Run Updates sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Install Apache sudo apt install apache2 Install…
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vciInstallUtils.exe has stopped working – VMWare Update Manager Install
Update this is still present in 6.5* Just a quick one this time. If every time you try and and install VMWare Update Manager you get the following error :- You may find this is due to your password having special characters in it 🙂 I recommend creating another account…
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Excluding Multiple Folders using rSync
I’ve started to test out the VMWare vCloud Air Object Storage (VCAOS – Sorry!!) Currently there’s no option for a GUI so I’m having to use GSUTIL to upload data. I make no secret of my dislike for CLI’s – I have no real reason to dislike them other than I’m…
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Colour Changes, Remove Facebook and Pinterest from Touchfolio
I’ve been working on a blog for a photographer friend, we had found a theme we’d like but there were a few changes we wanted to make. Before I go through he changes a mention to dimsemenov for his great Touchfolio theme We didn’t like the background colour of the post pages,…
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Opening delegated Mailboxes on Office 365 Hosted Exchange
A few months ago we looked different exchange solutions, in the end our choice was hosted Exchange on Office 365. Our setup is a little unusual as over time it’s been migrated from SBS through to a full Exchange 2010 product, some of the limitations of SBS meant you couldn’t do generic shared…
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Windows Update – Error 800B0001
I had a problem this morning after deploying a WSUS server. When running Windows Updates on the client workstation I get the Error 800B0001. I found this was due to the missing update To resolve this error you need to install this update – KB2720211 Download and install the patch then…