Resolving SCOM Console Alert Clearing Issues

We recently encountered a problem with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console where some old alerts could not be removed or cleared. Despite confirming that the alerts were no longer relevant, every attempt to clear them resulted in a red X generic Microsoft error, causing the console to crash. What Caused the Issue? The issue was traced back to …

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Microsoft Update causing Print Spooler Problems – CVE-2019-1367

Microsoft released an emergency update last week under CVE-2019-1367 which claimed to fix an Internet Explorer exploit. If you are now reading this post, I’m assuming that you have already noticed that having installed these set of updates, you now have print spooler problems?! CVE-2019-1367 v1.0 As most businesses probably have, we urgently rushed out this update to all our …

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WordPress – How to Exclude a Category from your Homepage

Introduction If you are a WordPress user, you may want to find a way of excluding a certain category from your main homepage. This could be if you post latest news articles but do not want them to clutter up your homepage. The reason I wanted to exclude a certain category was that I run daily giveaways through a partner …

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Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files

If you are running a Windows Server environment and you are becoming increasing low on system drive space, then you may want to consider removing the built in payload files for Windows Features. Windows Server comes with the payload files readily available if you want to add any additional Features or Roles to your server. This means that the installation …

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Google Chrome Flash Player Warning

You may have noticed that Google Chrome stopped enabling Adobe Flash Player by default from version 76 and onwards. This is annoying when you require it for certain flash websites that use flash (some video content sites for example) but you can easily re-enable it. Google December 2020 Deadline However, you may have noticed when opening Google Chrome that Flash …

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How to Fix a Nutanix CVM Stuck in Maintenance Mode

If you are using a Nutanix Hyperconvergence solution in your infrastructure environment, then you may have come across a problem where the Nutanix CVM gets stuck in Maintenance Mode. Fixing this issue is very simple, but you will need the following information before starting the fix: Prerequisites PuTTy or other SSH client Nutanix Cluster administrator creditials IP address of the …

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VMWare vCenter Appliance stuck at localhost login screen

If you reboot your VMWare vCenter Appliance, you may get into a situation where it reboots into the localhost login screen instead of the more familiar black and yellow/blue two tone layout with the management IP addresses shown like below: The first thing to do is not to panic. I have seen people get very frustrated with this situation and …

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Exchange Shell – All Permissions on all Mailboxes

We carried out a project recently which was to migrate around 150 mailboxes to the Office 365 (Exchange Online) platform. Part of scope of works that was required was to provide the team leaders within the business a list of all the mailboxes and what permissions they had on them. This was mostly a housekeeping exercise due to years of …

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