Just finished installed Ubuntu as a Windows 10, Hyper-V guest. I went to modify the video settings and noticed them to be locked in place. After some searching; Thank you Google… Found the solution that worked for me. Ref: Ben Armstrong’s Virtualization Blog Steps to change screen resolution: Open Terminal Type: sudo nano /etc/default/grub Find the […]
Category: Technical
You all know when it comes to virtualization I am VMware all the way. However, it has recently to my attention that the use of VMware Player on a company issued computer may be a violation of the EULA as this type of activity would be considered commercial use of the software. So the option […]
Background: Check Point users faced an issue when they wanted to change their expired passwords when logging into to the VPN via the SecureClient. Although they had been prompted to change password their attempts were not successful. I did some investigation into this and discovered that SSL needs to be allowed for LDAP communication for […]
Big thanks to “Jijo Chacko” for sharing this script with me. Very useful to check the Bitlocker encryption status of computers in your environment. Function Get-BitlockerInfo() <# .SYNOPSIS Retrieves Bitlocker Encryption information. .DESCRIPTION Retrieves Bitlocker Encryption information from Multiple computers. .PARAMETER Machinelist File name and path of the file contains machine information. .B.N.E […]
Recently I went to extend a volume on one of my guest systems and received an error requiring me to power off the system before extending the disk. Error: Hot-extend was invoked with size (5368709120 sectors) >= 2TB. Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is not supported. The disk extend operation failed: msg.disklib.INVAL Good News – With vSphere […]
Nothing new here . Just wanted to share some commands I are useful when performing network or direct systems testing using the nmap tool. The commands below will all display scan results in console while also saving to file. Discover live hosts: nmap -n -sn -PE -oA live_hosts 10.0.0.0/24 Discover open TCP ports: nmap -sS […]