So if your employer migrated from Skype for Business to teams, it is going to be an annoying change because by default you will not be able to send IMs to Teams from outlook unlike Skype used to be. But with a small change in Teams it is possible. – Open Teams – Click on […]
Tag: sysadmin
How to delete all links to external references in Excel in one click – Not by clicking “break links”
So at my job I have to make a lot excel files and most of the time I just re-use some of the templates that are created by some of my colleagues. The problem with that is, there are so many links in those excels to either their home folders, or some sites which I […]
How to use sudo in powershell
Well this is not exactly same as sudo. However it is very annoying when I want to run something in powershell and it gives me access denied. And then I need to go to start menu, or task bar, right click, select run as administrator etc just to run one command. As someone who likes […]
TIL how to disable the timeout of mapped drives in Windows
I was trying to copy some big files over the network to another server, and I mapped the destination drives in the local server for easy copying. However I kept getting errors in my script, which I suspected because the drives getting disconnected. Here is how to set it to not disconnect. Run as administrator […]
TIL how to check the bandwidth between 2 servers
We subscribed for a dedicated line between 2 datacenters, and when we were trying to copy some files over, it was really slow. We were supposed to get few MB/s transfer rate, but were getting only 20KB/s which was unacceptable. We needed to make a clear case with the service provider to get their support […]
How I recovered an unbootable Linux server hosted in OVH/SoYouStart
My friend has a server hosted in SoYouStart, and suddenly the server went down and nobody knew why. He asked my helped to bring it back online. We tried to boot into recovery mode from the console, and we were able to login using the credentials sent by them. We were also able to download […]
How to fix the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)” when connecting through RDP.
Ever since the policy to disable TLS 1.0 was pushed down to the local machines, we started getting the error “an authentication error has occurred(code 0x80004005)” when accessing few of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. It was interesting because we have a bunch of other servers with no problems accessing. This seems to be a […]
Fix “Failed to open Group Policy Object. You might not have the appropriate rights” error
I was facing this error in one of my servers while trying to open gpedit, with additional message “The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid”. Here is how I fixed it. 1) Enable view hidden files from explorer. 2) Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine 3)Rename the […]
How to select full URL upon click in Firefox..
I use Firefox as my personal browser. Although I sync it, there are some settings which are not synced. So every time I reinstall or change PC, I have to redo them again and again. This is one of those things. After a re install, if I click on the address bar, it wont select […]
How to get a Snapshot report from AWS using Python..
I was not sure if I was making a mistake by leaving Micron for a job in a small company. Anyway I don’t regret the move. In fact I actually love this job so far. It has all the good and bad things of working in a small company. Things are messy there. But.. the […]