In WSUS it isn’t very easy to clear on how to automatically decline updates based on more criteria than what you get out of the box. Luckily with powershell we can get around this. Using a scheduled task to execute powershell.exe with a -file parameter, I was able to decline the “Preview of Monthly Quality …
Author: Jeremy
Zabbix 3.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Percona
After upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04, I couldn’t get Zabbix to run and was receiving the following zabbix-server[3962]: /opt/sbin/zabbix_server: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18: version `libmysqlclient_18′ not found (required by /opt/sbin/zabbix_server) To fix this I needed to symlink the perconaclient library to the mysql client libraries that Zabbix was expecting. apt-get install libperconaserverclient18 ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libperconaserverclient.so.18 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.18 ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libperconaserverclient_r.so.18 …
SMF 2.0 with PHP 7
SMF does not officially support running version 2.0.x with PHP 7.0. This is due to PHP removing the mysql library in favor of more secure MySQLi library. To get around this if you have root access to your server, you could manually build in the old mysql library functions. Or you know, build compatibility functions. I’m …
Fixing stuck Exchange delegated access
Recently ran into an issue where an admin account had stuck delegated access to user accounts. Even after removing the access the admin would still see the user account showing in Outlook. Force updating the Offline Address Book and others didn’t fix it. PowerShell showed that the admin account was still there with deny permissions …
WordPress won’t update
I’ve had issues with WordPress failing to update. After searching forever and manually updating myself for months, I found the problem. Check the /wp-contents/upgrade folder for any files. A previous failed upgrade to core, themes or plugins will stay there and silently cause WordPress to fail to update without any notices. Further more WordPress doesn’t …
Fixing Warnings opening files in Explorer from SharePoint
While opening files in Explorer to a connected SharePoint Document library, you may receive a warning that action is unsafe, etc. The fix to this for network drives is to add them to the Intranet sites in Internet Settings. It isn’t clear how to do this for SharePoint as using SSL gives you a address …
Raspberry Pi NOOBS install without DHCP
Having got a Raspberry Pi and having never setup Raspberry Pi from scratch, I went ahead and proceeded to do the NOOBs install for myself. However since my Cisco switches have Spanning-Tree-Protocol enabled, it takes a while before DHCP addresses are handed out. Long enough that the NOOBS install would time out and give up without …
Recovery of LUNs as VHDs
I had recently worked on a SAN failure that resulted in a perfect storm of bad backups, broken offsite replication and disabled notifications. The data was sent off to professionals to recover the data. What was returned to me was VHD files from each of the LUNs this SAN had. This SAN had about 20 …