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Needed to get Ultrastar up and running on a 14.04 Ubuntu media centre.  Some issues to install that were not there on >= 16.04.  These steps were done on a fresh version of 14.04 Quick steps The Install needs Free Pascal 3 for compiling.  To install this do: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ok2cqr/lazarus sudo apt-get update sudo […]

So, been inspired recently reminiscing about the old video games of yester-year.  There is now a distribution called Retropie, so I fired up a spare Pi, loaded the card and this is impressive.  Everything you want already there.  Great. Next step was to replace the keyboard with a control panel like an arcade machine.  So, […]

Check out this blog which explains it. http://www.acupofit.com/2012/04/wsus-update-classifications-explained.html

Copy and paste the following into a powershell script.  Be sure to run this on a 2008R2 DC or equiv, or else the RDS profile is not available Import-Module ActiveDirectory Get-ChildItem -Filter “(&(objectclass=user)(objectcategory=user))” -Path ad:\”CN=Users,DC=horodc,DC=local” -Recurse | foreach { $user = [adsi]”LDAP://$($_.DistinguishedName)” $user | select @{N=”Name”; E={$_.name}}, @{N=”ProfilePath”; E={$_.profilepath}}, @{N=”RDSProfilePath”; E={$_.psbase.invokeget(“TerminalServicesProfilePath”)}} } | export-csv c:\test.csv

When trying to boot with WDS and gets a TFTP TIMEOUT error, this article is for you. In case this happens to anyone else (just happened to me after installing an update on the server and a couple of clients i rebuilt wouldnt boot as they just hung waiting for a tftp offer) has happened […]

This post documents how to get Samba to work with both AD and local authentication, while mapping AD users to local Unix users.  In the scenario I had, we wanted local AD users to be mapped to the already existing linux accounts.  We will check with the local SMB database, and then use AD as […]

Played around with a SMC SMCGS26C-Smart switch testing the DSCP tagging functionality prior to implementing.  From what I have found you need to enable DSCP Egress rewriting for this to occur once it has been tagged into the queue. So, the basics (overview) from what I have learned Advanced > QOS > Port Classification defines […]

This post documents how to get Samba to work with both AD and local authentication.  Initially we will check with the local SMB database, and then use AD as a secondary account store.  The following was performed with the following machines Centos 6, Samba 3.5 Windows 2008 R2, AD The basic configurations required to get […]

Setting up Config Manager is straight forward.  However, when setting up with a remote SQL server, some additional work is required – Mainly….. http://blogs.technet.com/b/configurationmgr/archive/2012/05/03/fix-unable-to-connect-cas-or-primary-to-the-sql-database-during-the-system-center-2012-configuration-manager-setup.aspx

Starting to create a new page instead of the other that has been around for years.  Initially, just the same links copied over FreePBX Administration Webmail MySQL Administration Blog (old)  Microprocessors  ATMEL Datasheets