This time around I will describe how to fully automate the Windows Setup process by using an unattended file. "Autounattend.xml" is the Windows Unattended XML file that automates the whole Windows Setup experience. It allows you to install Windows hands-off (use your hands to hold your son/daughter or just grab a beer). IMPORTANT NOTE:… Read More


    EI.cfg and PID.txt. or how-to automatically specify which Windows version and what Product Key to use. To partially automate the Windows Setup, you can use an ei.cfg and a PID.txt file. The "Edition Configuration" ("EI.cfg"-file) AND The "Product ID" ("PID.txt"-file) are /OPTIONAL/ configuration files that you can use to AUTOMATICALLY SPECIFY: Which Windows®… Read More


After requesting for help on the Clear Linux forum (here: https://community.clearlinux.org/t/how-to-add-new-trusted-ca-certificate-to-clear-linux/3457), their first reply directed me to Cloud Linux github page (https://github.com/clearlinux/clrtrust#add-trust-a-root-ca). From there, I obtained the information I needed to get my small Clear Linux vm to trust my Windows CA certificate. Here's how to. (On your Windows CA): Export your Windows CA Certificate… Read More


  tl;dr: The solution, in my specific case, was to: ENABLE TLS-1.0 Server. This way NPS Secure Wireless Connections (with Domain Username + Password) functionality was restored/Started working again.   Intro. Sometimes troubleshooting an issue could end up becoming a never-ending nightmare. That was the case in point - I experienced an issue with Network… Read More


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    What is NetBIOS you ask? In a nutshell, NetBIOS is a traditional Microsoft protocol, still in use by some of its underlying network technologies. In other words, NetBIOS allows you to call your computers by name (it even works when you don't have or need a Domain Name Server!). So why disable NetBIOS… Read More


For a few years, I’ve been haunted by the dreaded Windows Update issue 80072F8F. I experienced this error whenever one of my Windows 8.1 Pro and Windows Server 2012 R2 computers searched for updates on Windows Update (my computers were originally joined to a Windows 2012 Domain then raised to 2012 R2). And no, raising… Read More


While adding a new Domain Controller (DC) to your pre-existing forest, a nice tip to remember is to: (At the beginning) Always configure your wanna-be (New) DC's TCP/IP v4 PRIMARY DNS IP Address to point it to the FSMO DC. Then, once the New server becomes a new DC ("gets promoted"): Make sure that replication is successful… Read More


If you ever wondered how to setup a custom event viewer log size through Group Policy, and all Google or Bing told you was this: located at: “Computer Configuration”. “Policies”. “Windows Settings”. “Security Settings”. “Event Log”. OR this: Located at: “Computer Configuration”. “Policies”. “Administrative Templates”. “Windows Components”. “Event Log Service”. Welcome to the bandwagon 🙂… Read More


Today I'm going to write about the (in)famous iptables, the be-all do-all of GNU/linux packet filtering de-facto standard. Iptables is recognized to stand as one of the most used and most powerful firewall solutions around the web. Here I'll just share some really basic rules applied to one of my little boxes: #!/bin/bash IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables modprobe… Read More


    Who, where, what. Linux file permissions is all about numbers: read permissions correspond to a "4", write permissions correspond to a "2" and execute permissions correspond to a "1". When you sum the previous values, you'll get the corresponding "rwx"-scheme (incidentally this also happens to correspond to 3 bits - From 000 To… Read More