DirectAdmin is a graphical web-based web hosting control panel designed to make administration of websites easier. DirectAdmin is often called DA for short. From time to time, you’ll want to ensure your services are updated, for new features and to fix any potential security issues. In this blogpost I will perform a step-by-step upgrade of CentOS and DirectAdmin. Be sure to make a backup or snapshot of your server before updating anything. Logon to your server with SSH, i.e. with Putty. Make sure you got root access. yum check-update This command allows you to determine whether any…
It seems after installing Microsoft KB4088875 on Windows 7/2008R2 you will get a new Virtual Network Adapter A new Ethernet virtual Network Interface Card (vNIC) that has default settings may replace the previously existing vNIC, causing network issues after you apply this update. Any custom settings on the previous vNIC persist in the registry but are unused. To fix this issue, run the VBS script that’s provided below. Copy and paste this in notepad and save with .vbs extension. Before you run the script, make sure that you back up the following registry key and subkeys: HKEY_…
Created a batch script that will check if a service is running and will start it when it is not running. It is also usable with a scheduled task. Plain and simple, see below: @ECHO OFF SET SvcName=ServiceName SC QUERYEX "%SvcName%" | FIND "STATE" | FIND /v "RUNNING" > NUL && ( ECHO %SvcName% is not running ECHO START %SvcName% NET START "%SvcName%" > NUL || ( ECHO "%SvcName%" wont start EXIT /B 1 ) ECHO "%SvcName%" is started EXIT /B 0 ) || ( ECHO "%SvcName%" is running EXIT /B 0 ) You only need to change in the second line ServiceName to the name of the…
![[How-to] Block Cryptolocker at Exchange/Office 365](http://35.204.150.161/content/images/wordpress/2017/03/032917_1223_HowtoBlock13.png)
Office 365 and Exchange Online has a market adoption over 70% in enterprises. An easy way to block cryptolocker viruses that come with mail attachments is to block executable files in Exchange Admin Center. There is no reason to receive executables by email. The solution below will block executables in Exchange environments, including in zipped files. Logon to the Exchange Admin Center: With Exchange 2010 and 2013/2016 go to the URL https://<FQDN of the mailserver>/ecp i.e. https://mail.brankovucinec.com/ecp. In Office 365, go to the admin portal and click Exchange in the…
Today I had an issue in an RDSH Farm environment, on Windows Server 2012 R2 with User Profile Disks enabled, when users trying to install Google Chrome extensions get the error “Could not install package: ‘COULD_NOT_GET_TEMP_DIRECTORY'”. This is an issue for several years already with any type of dynamic/mounted volume anywhere in the path of %temp%, %userdata% etc. What Chrome does is take the path specified in your case c:\users\%username%\appdata\local\chromeDataDir asks the os to dereference it to a canonical path which turns into something like \?\\HardDisk2\Partition1\…
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So, the release of Windows Server 2012 has removed a lot of the old Remote Desktop related configuration utilities. There is no more Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration utility that gave you access to the RDP-Tcp properties dialog that let you configure a custom certificate for the RDSH to use. In its place is a nice new consolidated GUI that is part of the overall “edit deployment properties” workflow in the new Server Manager. It turns out that much of the configuration data for RDSH is stored in the Win32_TSGeneralSetting class in WMI in the root\cimv2\…
Hi, also trying to create a bootable USB device to install Windows 7 and getting the error that bootsect isn’t working even if you put it in the “%APPLOCALDATA%\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool” directory? By the time you probably trying to create the USB on a computer installed with UEFI and here lies the problem, if you try to run bootsect from command-line, you’ll get the following error: This tool can only be run on systems booted using a PC/AT BIOS. This system was booted using EFI or some other…
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Today I was fortunate again to do a debug, at an environment we had several BSOD/bugcheck errors on a daily basis, sometimes twice a day. This time it was probably caused by: tdx.sys. The stopcode was 0x7f. This time the error occured on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine hosted by a VMware ESXi 5.5 server, with VMware tools ‘complete’ installed. The problem seems a bit similar to this post and the steps towards a solution are also the same, it’s just about to remove the VMCI driver for VMware vShield Endpoint…