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IT Administration December 22, 2018

UniFi Switch Command to Show Cable Lengths

From this thread, a command to show cable length and status. Run in the CLI of a UniFi switch: swctrl -d cable show Gives some odd results sometimes and not …

IT Administration December 14, 2018

Remote Desktop Fails to Connect to Gateway 0xC000035B

A new Windows 10 Pro 1803 computer could not establish a connection through a Server 2016 machine running Remote Desktop Gateway. The Win10 machine showed this error:

IT Administration December 8, 2018

Microsoft Support Sites Report Access Denied in Chrome

This week, when I tried to open a Microsoft support ticket at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/assistedsupportproducts using Chrome 71, I got an Access Denied error:

IT Administration November 27, 2018

Use Enhanced DSS Keys on a Yealink T42G

With the help of tim942’s post in this thread, I was able to get my Yealink T42G phone, running firmware 36.83.0.55, to automatically retrieve voicemail from an Asterisk server.

IT Administration October 26, 2018

Migrate an Azure Recovery Services Agent

You can’t. Migrate, that is. If you’ve moved all your on-premises data from one server to another, your only option is to install the MARS agent on the new server, …

IT Administration October 9, 2018

Create a Secure-Bootable UEFI USB Drive

The installation ISO for Server 2016 is about 5.8GB, so it won’t fit on a a standard DVD. I needed to create a USB drive that would boot with the …

IT Administration October 3, 2018

Changing Office 365 Deleted Items Retention

I had a lot of difficulty changing the deleted items retention in Office 365 Exchange from the default 14 days to 30. I would change it but it still showed …

IT Administration October 2, 2018

Batch Convert PDF to PDF/A – 2018 Edition

This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013. I’m developing a paperless workflow for my home and office. I want to save all my documents …

IT Administration October 2, 2018

Use CutePDF to Print to PDF/A for Free – 2018 Edition

This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013. My paperless workflow creating PDF/A files was doing fine until about a year ago. I was using …

IT Administration September 21, 2018

Malwarebytes Premium Trial Blocks MSP Anywhere

I use Solarwinds MSP Anywhere to connect to client computers. Yesterday from one of my Windows 10 Pro machines, I couldn’t connect to any of them. I’d get a brief …

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