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Setup L2TP VPN with ZyXEL USG series
If you are the owner of a ZyXEL USG series firewall, you might as well benefit the L2TP feature, which work seamlessly with Windows,iOS,Android and Linux without extra software needed and still being pretty secure. The caveat is however if you have a large envoirement and many clients that you can’t control, setup can be a cumbersome task, cause there is some manual steps involved. I’ll cover the firewall setup in this articel and someLearn More
HP Switch v1910 and the secret it holds
More text to come…. http://glazenbakje.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/hp-v1910-secret-commando-list-how-to-enable-it/
Shortcuts in Windows 7 – isn’t business as usual
Yesterday at work some users called and said they had problems with their shortcuts. Some claimed they had disappeared right in front of their eyes other would just LOVE to have the shortcut availeble on the taskbar as in the good old days. Well i had to investigate, case user calls is normally not my desk and here is what i figured out. Shortcuts disappear on desktop in Windows 7 That is caused to byLearn More
Installing ESXi 5.0 on a HP Proliant DL380p Gen8 – and failing?
If you land here at this post my guess is, that you are confused, cause what used to business as usual ended up with an error saying no network available. Well a fix could be here. My guess is that you have installed using the ESXi ISO provided by vmware, this is the first fail, you have to use the image provided by HP or build your own. (at least at the time of thisLearn More
Howto disable SSL 2.0 on a Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2
There is a severe security breach in the old SSL 2.0, which enables people with bad intend to perform man-in-the-middel attacks among other. Fortunatly all newer Browsers and clients use SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.0 which avoids the use of SSL 2.0. But to make sure your servers dosn’t even present the opportunity of SSL 2.0 (or older protocols) you have to disable them on the servers manually (if you have many servers you couldLearn More
Unable to request certificate on Windows XP from your own CA (Certificate Authority)
If you’re installing a new Certificate Authority based on Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 your might encounter a problem related where your computeres running Windows XP aren’t able to request nor auto-enroll a certificate from your CA. When you try to manually request the certificate you get an error saying: “Unable to complete the request”, “Cannot find the requested object.” Similar message can be found in the Eventviewer. If you look inLearn More
How-to: Uninstall Symantec without the password
On corporate versions of Symantec, the uninstall procedure may be protected by a password, to avoid users uninstalling this security product. By default the password is : symantec You can however in case you have lost the password still uninstall, it just requires you to go to registry. Go toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intel\LANDesk\VirusProtect6\CurrentVersion\AdministratorOnly\Security Locate DWORD called UseVPUninstallPassword, modify value to 0 (this disables the password) Close the Registry editor and continue with your uninstall
How-to: Upgrade Windows Server 2008 R2 from Standard to Enterprise without a media.
Phase 1: Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerEnterprise /ProductKey:489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y (This is the default KMS Key 3 days activation for Windows Server 2008 R2, provided by Microsoft, hopefully im allowed to publish this key here, anyways this license provides 3 days of access to register your own key.) You have to use this KMS key in order to make the upgrade work, after the upgrade your Windows will have 3 days to activate, Activating using GUI, will disable aLearn More
SSH Access to ESXi 5
If you like me need the oppotunity to use SSH once and a while, in your ESX envoirment, then you might wanna take a look at this post. First let it be saif that, when you ENABLE SSH access, your host shows a yellow exclamation inside your vCenter, don’t worry, thats normal and it clears, once you disable SSH access again (which of coarse you do) Well to ENABLE, follow the steps below: Enabling ESXiLearn More
Numlock not active on start
Have you ever had users or self been annoyed about NumLock being disabled everytime you start up Windows? Here is the cure Open registry (Run -> regedit) Go to HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard\ Right click InitialKeyBoardIndicator and change value to 2 (2 is enabled, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled after logon i think) Or download the regkey here and doubleclick it, accept the changes and reboot.