recently i needed to update the licensing on two 5.x esxi hosts with expired licenses. interestingly enough, it appeared as though the task could not be accomplished from the windows vsphere client. i couldn’t apply the licenses in vcenter either since vcenter was a vm that was currently down (because of the expired host licenses). […]
apparently, the default finishing setting for the universal toshiba driver is duplex printing for eco reasons. on the print server that hosted the papercut pay-for-print devices, i tried altering the finishing setting by opening the printer properties -> advanced -> printing defaults -> finishing -> 2-sided printing. however, whenever i made the change and hit […]
for various reasons, an organization may not want a certain feature enabled under a parent licensing SKU in office365, for instance – yammer. this could be done through the office365 admin GUI, but that approach is impractical when dealing with 1000’s of users. the same thing can be accomplished through powershell as described below… Get-MsolAccountSku […]
the most straight forward method of restoring a database is: path: c:\program files (x86)\papercut mf\server\bin\win\ db-tools.exe import-db –force “..\server\data\backups\export-####….zip” the force option assumes there’s already an existing database with data that needs to be overwritten. the unfortunate part of using this method is that it deletes all the data in the existing db in a […]
I/O Analyzer – https://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer
i was curious about a concept presented in this following MIT presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIJmoE9L9g so i tested it out on a recently set up vm of ubuntu server. directory structure of /dir1/dir2/ dir2 contains a secret.txt file group permissions on both dir1 and dir2 are 710 testgroup1 has execute on dir1 and testgroup2 has execute on […]
ADFS logins will fail if there is too much time skew between the ADFS servers and the relying party. the ideal solution would be that the RP administrators start time syncing their systems. this is probably unlikely though so it will have to be fixed on the claims/identity provider end. this can be done by […]
after successfully adding an AD domain as an identity source in vcenter i was unable to expand a listing of domain users and groups from within the vcenter SSO settings. this also failed when i tried to set up vcenter permissions for domain users. i kept receiving this message: “error while extracting local sso users”. […]
in previous VDP versions it was possible to do direct upgrades to the latest version. unfortunately, there is no direct upgrade path from 6.x to 6.1.x. a new 6.1 appliance must be deployed and the old VDP appliance’s settings and data can be migrated to it. source: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2127665 if you try to simply mount a […]
i’ve been trying to figure out this one off and on for a while now. at one point i was testing some calendaring items by giving myself full access to another mailbox. since i had full access, the mailbox automatically showed up as another account in outlook. which was fine, but after removing my access […]