While provisioning some new Ruckus R510 WAPs onto our SmartZone 100 (5.0.0.0.675) we’ve had a number of cases where the WAPs will reboot for their firmware update but will not proceed beyond that point. In particular the PWR and CTL lights stay lit but the radio lights do not come on at all. Looking in Access Points > Affected WAP… Read more
Category: Software
This section looks at what is new in the world of software (Operating Systems included) and how to take best advantage of what is out there.
ICTF Conference 2018 – Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the Oxford ICTF Conference on Multi-Factor Authentication and Password Stores with Smart Cards and YubiKeys, the video recording is online now here – https://youtu.be/WGtCxS2YFNA and the presentation can be downloaded through the link below. A special shout out goes to the Yubico press office for providing a set of YubiKey 4s, YubiKey NEOs and… Read more
Set the default new file for VS Code to PowerShell (or something else!)
Having recently changed from using PowerShell ISE to VS Code I’m still discovering all the super awesome new features of it (be sure to get a copy of the Keyboard shortcuts from this page – https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/keybindings). To get started I’ve changed the default new file language to PowerShell (not that you can’t change it to anything else though!). To do this… Read more
RDS on Server 2016, Failed: Unable to install the role services.
In putting together a small RDS (Session Based) environment on Server 2016 today today I kept running across the error message below during the installation. Failed: Unable to install the role services. After much back and forth between forums and event viewer it turns out our default policy to disable TLS 1.0 on servers was the issue. Enabling TLS 1.0… Read more
College IT Conference 2018 – Deploying and Managing Microsoft Services with PowerShell on Windows Server Core
Thanks to the organising committee of the (Oxford and Cambridge) College IT Conference 2018 held at the RAF Museum (Hendon) for the invite to talk about PowerShell and Server Core! As promised the video from the presentation is now up on YouTube; in addition the slides as PowerPoint and PDF can be seen below. <span class=”mce_SELRES_start” style=”width: 0px; line-height: 0;… Read more
IT Open Day at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford
With thanks to the 50 staff from across the University for attending please see below the links to the videos and PowerPoints of the day! Direct link to Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLRxbdlgJzwyjAf820T0u4GpP0E01a9LEX&v=u-GVJ_0VuRM Slides as PowerPoint Slides as PDF Stay tuned over the coming days for the scripts that are mentioned through the video which will be linked to from this post.
Troubleshooting Slow Group Policy with GPRESULT
One of the often forgotten about features of gpresult is that it can output reports as HTML format (in a similar format to Group Policy Modelling) as well as to the command line – simply use the /h switch followed by a path. This includes much more useful data including how long it took to apply various aspects of the… Read more
Set OpenVAS to only scan hosts that reply to PINGs
In my environment all of our network connected devices are configured to respond to PINGs; this mainly comes about from using PRTG Network Monitor to confirm that devices and services are up even in the most simple of fashions. The same also applies to client PCs which through Group Policy are configured to reply to PING. Thus to save OpenVAS… Read more
A little fun with PowerShell and Milestone XProtect (read the config.xml file and get a list of Devices and Cameras)
A little bit of fun today with Milestone XProtect (in our case the express version) today; with the goal of improving our documentation I wanted to somehow obtain a list of all of the hardware devices (and to some degree the cameras) including there names, MAC addresses and IP addresses from our XProtect server. Lone behold the configuration.xml file typically… Read more
Setting the Source Interface/VLAN for RADIUS, SNTP, syslog, TACACS, Telnet, TFTP and sFlow on HPE Aruba (ProCurve) switch
If you are running an HPE Aruba (formally ProCurve) switch you may come across cases where your switch (in the example above a 5400R zl2) has multiple IP Addresses/VLANs and you need it to talk to another service (in my case syslog and sFlow receivers) on a set interface. When this occurs you can use the ip source-interface command (make… Read more