Save Credentials to Encrypted File in PowerShell Tuesday, 26 Dec, 2023 | Leave a comment Interactive script to save Credentials To Encrypted File using PowerShell. Full guidance into the process and multiple checks to ensure desired results. MIT License - you can do whatever you please with it 🙂 SaveCredsToFile.ps1… Read More
[SOLVED]AADSTS220501 InvalidCrlDownload - Azure Entra Certificate Based Authentication (CBA) issue Tuesday, 21 Nov, 2023 | Leave a comment If you like to muck around with Azure & Entra Certificate Based Authentication (CBA), you'll be familiar with the importance of a Certificate Revocation List (CRL). Someday, while trying to login to admin.microsoft.com with a certificate, I experienced this AADSTS220501 Error so I started troubleshooting at it. What's interesting is that the CRL was online,… Read More
ÜBER-Ribbon on Windows Explorer. Monday, 12 Dec, 2022 | Leave a comment Sometimes you may consider the default Windows Explorer Button bar (or ribbon) too lame for your tastes. How about changing it to something like below? The screenshot is from the Windows 8.1 Quick Access Toolbar ("QAT") however this also works on Windows 10 (but not on Windows 11!). How-to. Create a new text… Read More
Old UBNT NanoStation Loco M2 AP "Aggregation"-parameter - what worked for me. Wednesday, 9 Nov, 2022 | Leave a comment Howdy, just wanted to share which "aggregation" value worked on one of my WLAN APs in my old home lab. FWIW, the AP I was using at the time was an old UBNT NanoStation Loco M2 (2.4Ghz) setup as a Bridge: On my real world “testing” scenarios, aggregating 3 ETH Frames/4500 bytes gave me the… Read More
How to replace the default Notepad++ text file icon. Monday, 17 Oct, 2022 | Leave a comment I will assume you belong to those ~5000+ geeks that reckon Notepad++ is “the best” Notepad replacement (http://alternativeto.net/software/notepad/). If you agree with the above statement, I'm sure you did already set Notepad++ as your default text editor for all your text (.txt) files. However, if you are also a little bit fussy with… Read More
How to fully automate the Windows Setup. Monday, 12 Sep, 2022 | Leave a comment 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
How to partially automate the Windows Setup. Monday, 15 Aug, 2022 | Leave a comment 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
Windows Server 2012 AD DC TO 2012 R2 – (How to perform) an "in-place" domain upgrade. Monday, 18 Jul, 2022 | Leave a comment Let’s raise the bar. Someday I decided that my “Windows Server 2012 Standard”-Domain had to be raised to a “Windows Server 2012 R2”-Domain. That is because of a badly-designed GPO (designed by me, who else?), that wreaked havoc to "Windows Update" for my whole domain (I also grew too lazy to find out… Read More
[SOLVED]Virtual machine 'vm-name' could not be started because the hypervisor is not running. Friday, 1 Jul, 2022 | Leave a comment Someday, one of my servers failed to boot up one of my virtual machines. For whatever reason, I did figure out that the Hyper-v Role got disabled on boot. ISSUE. Hyper-V Manager An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s). 'vm-name' failed to start. Virtual machine 'vm-name' could not be started… Read More
How to add a Windows CA Certificate to your Clear Linux Trusted Store Friday, 24 Jun, 2022 | Leave a comment 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
[SOLVED]Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) Error Code 22 Saturday, 22 Dec, 2018 | 3 Comments 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
2 easy steps to completely disable NetBIOS off your Network. Friday, 16 Nov, 2018 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
Setup nanostation Loco M2 as Standard Wireless Access Point. Thursday, 18 Oct, 2018 | 2 Comments The nanostation Loco M2 by default comes with Airmax enabled. Airmax is UBNT's proprietary implementation of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). TDMA is a wireless communication technology. Airmax/TDMA is not compatible with the default 802.11 Wifi standard for Access Points. So that's why, by default, if you setup a nanostation Loco M2 to behave… Read More