The ramblings of a computer geek
This was an interesting one, I was trying to download a IOS image to a switch but the connection was being denied. It turned out the connection was coming from a VLAN interface on the switch that did not have access to the TFTP server. You can force the VLAN interface used with this command: … Read more
With the prevalence of mobile devices this is becoming more of a problem, you have a user who comes in every day and swears blind nothing has the wrong password, but something is locking them out. Here is how to fix it: Firstly you must ensure that you are logging the stuff correctly on your … Read more
PROBLEM: You can’t checkout a file because it says it is “locked by another user” or is “locked by <USERNAME>”, but from the SharePoint UI you can’t see who has it locked out or you can’t see that it has been locked out at all. SOLUTION: This is a big problem with SharePoint since 2003, … Read more
We found that the metadata columns which use the term store, end up showing empty for all users apart from the Site Administrators. To fix this you need to grant privileges to the users in this list. To do this navigate to: http://intranet/Lists/TaxonomyHiddenList/AllItems.aspx Click on “List”->”List Settings” then click on “Permissions for this list.” Add … Read more
In our case, we were needing to remove some licences from some users, as we had an educational licence, the names of the service plans and licenses were a bit different. So we had two ways of doing it: 1 was just to remove the service plans we didn’t need. And the second was to … Read more
Problem: We had this conundrum, the search results were showing as blank when searching in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 but this was only for files and items, not for people that returned results fine. After checking the crawler and finding no errors and able to search within the index and finding items I came to the … Read more
Okay here’s a weird one, we had two identical clusters of firewalls running: ASA IOS: 9.0(2) ASDM: 7.1(2) One of the firewall clusters you could access https:// to get to the ASDM with no problem, the other one, you access you get page cannot be displayed with some error about SSL not working. Firstly I … Read more
When setting up your APC Management card (this includes the ATS Devices) you need to configure the IAS policy as follows. I’m assuming you know the basics of configuring a RADIUS device this is specifically how to get administrative privileges for users logging into the Management card. Without these additional settings, the user will get … Read more
Here’s something that came up, we are replacing a few switches and want to replace it will a couple of 3750s and a 3750e in a stack. The issue was that the 3750e has a different IOS to the 3750s but still must be the same version. After some playing around I found these versions … Read more
PROBLEM: Using Microsoft DPM 2012 SP1 with the locally installed SQL 2008 R2 SP2 instance (i.e. the one that DPM installs) once installed, you can’t get into the Maintenance tasks using SQL Management Studio. Clicking on Maintenance Tasks gives you an error: The task with the name “Task Name XXX” and the creation name “Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.DatabaseMaintenance.DbMaintenanceFileXXXTask, … Read more