When tried to access SugarCRM 6.5.13 after installation following error showed up in browser:

CRASH: PHP segmentation violation in session_start() called at [/install.php:486]

To fix that issue .htaccess file has to be created in SugarCRM main older with following content:

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In order to create new Forest and promote Windows Server 2012 Core to be Domain Controller for that Forest, first Active Directory Services Role has to be added:

Install-WindowsFeature AD-Domain-Services –IncludeManagementTools

Once Active Directory DOmain Services role is installed we can promote server to be first Domain Controller in the Forest.

Install-ADDSForest -DomainName "lab.corp" -DomainNetbiosName "LAB" -DomainMode Win2008R2 -ForestMode Win2008R2 -InstallDns -Force

And after some time new Forest and Domain Controller is ready to use.

In one of the previous articles I did quick overview How-to Install vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5 on VMware Workstation 9. One of the reasons I did that in my Lab environment was to run Cisco Nexus 1000v with NX-OS on it and evaluate this operating system and how it can integrate with other products. So, here is quick overview how to make Cisco Nexus 1000v happen on vSphere ESXi.

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Check this out 🙂 Upgrading Windows from 1.0 to Windows 8 Pro.

It’s great video showing the long way we went from Windows 1.0 to current Windows 8 🙂

If you have machine which is not connected to domain, but has TPM chip you might want to encrypt disks with BitLocker and enable PIN protection at boot-up.

In order to do that you have to make sure TPM is activated and enabled for provisioning in BIOS. Next step will be to allow PIN use, as by default that option is not active especially on machines not connected to Active Directory domain.

So, to enable ability to set PIN follow the steps:

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By default ADLDS does not allow to reset password on users created in ADLDS repository over connection without SSL. As sometimes there is a need to build test environment with ADLDS quick, SSL is the last thing which anyone would care about, especially if main thing to test is script automating password resets.

So, for convenience of the developers ADLDS allows to disable requirements for SSL connection to reset passwords. How to disable that reuqirement? See below how it was done on server where ADLDS was installed on port 50389:

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[et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Once you have MasterNode configured, you might want to check status and see, if everything works fine.

// Start ArcticCoin MasterNode

Once you have arcticcoind up and running you can start MasterNode role.

arcnode01@arc-srv-01:~/.arcticcore$ arcticcoin-cli goldminenode start-all
{
"overall": "Successfully started 1 goldminenodes, failed to start 0, total 1",
"detail": {
"status": {
"alias": "mn1",
"result": "successful"
}
}
}

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Just released small app for Windows platform. This app allows to decrypt type 7 password from Cisco devices as well as passwords from Cisco VPN profiles (PCF files).

Password which can be recovered using this app:

• wireless keys fro Cisco access points,
• RADIUS/TACACS shared secrets
• NTP authentication keys
• Enable passwords (NOT enable secrets, which are stored using MD5)
• enc_GroupPwd – VPN group password from PCF file
• enc_UserPassword – VPN user password from PCF file

Application also allows to store password and/or send tchem via email after decryption.

You can find app in Windows Store:

For testing purposes I deployed Microsoft AppV infrastructure.

Systems presented on diagram above:

• Core-DC-01 – Domain Controller – deployed prior to AppV installation
• Core-SQL-01 – SQL Server – deployed prior to AppV installation
• AppV-SRV-01 – AppV Management Server
• AppV-WKS-01 – AppV Sequencer Workstation

Installation process for systems listed above below.

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Recently I went through troubleshooting of Site-to-Site Layer-2 link. One of the things we did during troubleshooting of that link was checking interface statistics for interfaces which were connecting two geographical sites together.

Below quick overview how ot check and reset port statistics if required during troubleshooting process.

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