my world of IT

In this new blog post series I’ll be looking at (normally a selection of 3) cool articles, news and other blog posts that I find interesting during the day. For this week we have PowerShell tricks, a detailed article on securing the Windows Firewall and an (old but very interesting) write up on the woes of network administrators when everything… Read more

Bit of a crazy issue when deploying a new Ruckus wireless network – in first suspecting an issue with the controller software or perhaps some kind of access control list blocking traffic it turns out that the default Windows Firewall rule for allowing NPS traffic is broken in some fashion. Having tried this (and it working fine) on Windows Server… Read more

A bit of an odd post but given this bag is proving so very handy I thought it worth it! Having started a new job at the beginning of the year it was evident that I would need to carry around a bit more kit with me than previously, with Christmas just around the corner it was the perfect time… Read more

It’s always a pleasure to run a presentation and at this years Oxford and Cambridge Colleges IT Conference has definitely been one of the highlights covering a new hobby – running all kinds of IoT applications on the ESP8266 micro-controller.

When running CLI commands against an HPE Aruba (previously ProCurve) switch that have long outputs you have likely encountered the line below. — MORE –, next page: Space, next line: Enter, quit: Control-C Although handy – on occasion you might need to turn this off. To do so simply run the command (no need to be in config mode for… Read more

While iterating through an issue with our Ruckus SmartZone (with Ruckus R510 Access Points) controllers I was looking for a way to see when the Access Points had applied the new configuration; lone behold it’s quite easily done through both the CLI and the GUI. Anyone who has used the new SmartZone controllers will know all too well that’s it’s… Read more

So over the last few hours I’ve been making some config changes to our Eaton UPS Network Management Cards that require the magical ‘Reset Communication’ button to be pushed in the web interface (one day I must get the management software!). To help speed up the process (or at least know when I should reload the page) I timed the… Read more

After a great many years since Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm it’s time for something new! After much discussion and looking at the working practices at my current place of work we’ve decided to go all in with RDS and to support that we’ve got 3 new servers to run it on. 2x 1U rack mounts to go in our main server… Read more

For a little while now we’ve had issues with the uniFLOW Server service (version 5.3) not starting in a timely fashion (2hrs+). After a harrowing tale of working with their support going in circles looking at issues with SQL Server and suchlike we worked out that the issue seemed to be caused by stale files at ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\NT-ware… Read more

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