Configuration guides for IT Administrators
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If you are encountering this Outlook error message, then proceed to read this article This problem occurred for me when I set a new password for my expired windows credential. I have been looking for solution, at the end, this solution worked for me. All I did was I closed MS Lync (Skype for Business)…

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WP_DEBUG is an useful debugging tool available in WordPress to see PHP errors on your website and they are helpful for developers to troubleshoot issues with the website. To turn on WP_DEBUG, add following code in wp-config.php define(‘WP_DEBUG’,true); It is not advisable from security point of view to turn on WP_DEBUG on production websites as…
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Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) doesn’t have a feature in their web console to generate SAN certificate CSR, so in this case, you either create SAN CSR from CLI or external host. In this article, we are creating a SAN certificate CSR from my local Windows 10 computer and finally, importing it to SMG. 1. OpenSSL for…

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You can add an application executables to Windows Service and set it to automatically start whenever your system boots. This way you avoid inconvenience of manually starting the application service every time your system boots. Create Windows Service Open Command Prompt “cmd” with Administrator privileges and type the following syntax sc.exe create <service_name_your_wish> binPath= “<path_of_service_executable>”…
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F5 appliance LCD warning displays cannot be seen remotely, neither LED alarms. But if you would like to remotely see any warnings, these are written in /var/log/ltm file. However you can remotely clear LCD warnings and Alarm LED using following commands. Note: Performing following procedure should not have a negative impact on the appliance. lcdwarn…

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There are times that as an F5 administrator, you wanted to log traffic to debug and troubleshoot an request or response that is processed by F5 appliance. Here is handy iRule script that logs following – Client IP address & port – Requested URL – Virtual Server Name specified in F5 – Pool Name –…

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To display Cisco debug output on the current SSH or Telnet session switch# logging on // enabled by default switch# logging monitor //command to enable logging on VTY lines switch# terminal monitor //unless you issue this command, you cannot see logs on your SSH or Telnet sessions. To turn off Cisco…

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On Oct 16th 2017, 7 vulnerabilities affecting both WPA and WPA2 were made publicly available. Additional research also led to discovery of 3 additional vulnerabilities. Among these 10 vulnerabilities, only one CVE-2017-13082 may affect wireless infrastructure, the other nine vulnerabilities affect client devices. There is also some good news, remote attacks won’t be possible in this…
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After installing new environment of vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 version, we encountered an issue while importing OVA file. The wizard stopped progressing and thrown an error – “OVF package with compressed disks is currently not supported for OVF import.” You must have also faced this issue if incase you upgraded appliance version to 6.5 …

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In this scenario, SSL is offloaded in F5 appliance that load balances HTTP WebLogic Servers behind it. You might have experienced a situation that F5 has responded ‘http’ response for all ‘https’ requests from client browsers and the applications were not rendered properly. In such case, here is a quick guide how to set this up.…

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