Server / Desktop / 3rd party apps Category
Jira Service Desk: E-mail attachments blocked on re-open
Posted on January 2, 2018 Leave a Comment
After using Jira Service Desk for a while we ran into a problem with automatic re-opening tickets when a customer replied to a closed ticket. The automatic re-open worked fine but any attachments where just thrown away. Usually customers respond back with a screenshots, logs or similar information needed to further investigate the ticket. At […]
Powershell: Manage IIS SMTP server
Posted on December 17, 2017 Leave a Comment
Setting up Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) SMTP service is pretty straight forward for simple implementations. It hasn’t really keept up with time and I’m pretty sure not to many people use it anymore. Working with an older implementation in a system that used distributed SMTP on each and every IIS server I realized we […]
MS SQL: Automatically restore latest backup
Posted on September 11, 2017 Leave a Comment
A common need is to restore the latest production backup to a test system or user acceptance test system on a regular basis. Depending on your system (database) size this can be time consuming. You would prefer to have this done during the night right after the backups run. If you don’t have any third […]
Reset Windows 10 password
Posted on August 24, 2016 Leave a Comment
Upgraded one of my laptops to Windows 10 and immediately locked the admin account. Googled and found a bunch of suggestions using the Windows 10 install CD? As most other people I upgraded via the Windows 10 upgrade notice that was bugging me for months. So how do you get back into a Windows 10 […]
Unable to delete file: System cannot find the file specified
Posted on August 10, 2016 11 Comments
Running hybrid systems spanning from windows to different flavors of Linux sometimes present you with interesting behavior. One that I have faced every now and then is files that you can’t delete due to special characters in the filename. They do show up in the file explorer but when you try to delete them you […]
BtSync: Refuses to connect to any peers
Posted on May 20, 2016 Leave a Comment
Have a few ARM based nodes running BitTorrent Sync (btsync) and needed to re-install one of them. Trying to remove it I ended up with my main node (owner) for all my folders to stop connecting to peers or accepting incoming connections. Took me a while to figure out a solution and I couldn’t find […]
SSL Error: Cannot verify server identity
Posted on March 12, 2016 12 Comments
Phone browsers have less trusted root and intermediate certificates than many desktop browsers. This can make your https site look good on the web but fail on mobile devices. Errors like “unable to verify the identity of the server” and others along those lines can show up. This is because the certification chain can not […]
Use UNC path in Filezilla server
Posted on February 9, 2016 3 Comments
Filezilla is widely used for ftp servers, it’s open source and easy to setup. It also support SSL encrypted FTP connections which is nice for data security. In one of my setups the need for sharing UNC paths came up. Filezilla actually supports it even though the UI doesn’t. So in a few easy steps […]
Move MySQL database storage location
Posted on February 4, 2015 1 Comment
It’s always a good idea to keep storage away from the boot device. If you run out of space on the boot device the system will halt. If you make a new install it’s easy enough to move your storage and you can do it from a cloud-init script like this: [shell] – mkdir /var/db […]
Unattended use of mysql_secure_installation
Posted on February 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
After installing MySQL on any Linux distribution you run the mysql_secure_installation script, or at least you should! It will prompt you to set a new root password, remove anon access and a few other things. But if you want this configuration to be done in a deployment or cloud-init script? The mysql_secure_installation command/script doesn’t accept […]
