WordPress Notify Author on Comment
By default, WordPress does not notify the post author when they comment on their own post. They also don’t get notified after approving someone else’s comment on their post.
Distinctive Ringing for Internal Extensions with 3CX and Yealink
A customer using 3CX v.15 with Yealink T42S phones would like calls from internal extensions to have a distinctive ring.
April 2017 Monthly Rollup Breaks VB6 App
I maintain a client-server database app written in VB6 that uses ADO and COM+/DCOM. After installing the “April, 2017 Security Monthly Quality Rollup,” the VB6 app crashes in msado15.dll and …
Restore Server to Desktop – 2017 Edition
Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went …
Disable SIP ALG on Tomato Shibby
A PBX vendor like 3CX may tell you to disable SIP ALG on your router. I’m running Tomato on my router, specifically Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-132 K26 Max. With the …
Use Certutil to Get File Hash
I have been happily using the tiny Bullzip MD5 Calculator to quickly get an MD5 hash directly from the context menu in Windows Explorer. But what if you need a …
WSUS Kills Itself with KB3159706
After deploying WSUS on a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine, I allowed WSUS to update itself with KB3159706. This upgrades WSUS to supply Windows 10 upgrades (not in use at …
Cloned PCs Disappear in WSUS
Just set up WSUS in an environment with a few cloned PCs. One PC would show up in WSUS, then it would disappear when a cloned PC showed up. The …
3CX SBC Invalid signature received: 0x10317
I’m using 3CX Session Border Controller (SBC) 15.0.56341 to connect to a 3CX v15 SP4 server running on Server 2012 R2 in the cloud. Usually it works fine. A couple …
Azure Backup Agent Points to Wrong Update
When the Azure Backup Agent program says an update is ready, it will provide a link. Today, the link points to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=229525, which redirects to KB3196148, which is the October …