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SNMP Cannot adopt OID in UCD-SNMP-MIB errors on Raspberry Pi
As I'm a fan of new tech stuff I also have several Raspberry Pi's in my home. One offcourse as mediacenter, but also I have one that is acting as FTP box for backups and my Private Cloud on my 100/100 home fiber connection. This Pi is running also Cacti and as the...
Check the progress of the Shrink Database task in SQL Server
Today I had to shrink a database that was about 250GB and had 100GB free space to create some space on the disk. After running the command you are not able to see the progress of the Shrink, and as this can take some time you want to see how the action is proceeding....
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012R3 CU8 demo vm shutting down
Because we have a support case with the MSFT team I was asked to download some Microsoft DEMO vm's for Dynamics AX 2012R3 CU8. When i downloaded the VM's and started these everything was working fine for a few minutes. I was making some modification when suddenly the...
VMware Workstation and Hyper-V on Windows 8.1
As I'm working a lot with Dynamics AX and the Microsoft Demo VM's, i was in need of VMware and Hyper-V on my notebook so I could run my VM's for VPN and run Hyper-V for the Microsoft DEMO machines. Now you can install both of them in Windows 8.1, but when you try to...
Perflib (WmiApRpl and BITS) on Server2012 and SharePoint 2013
I have been searching for a way to get rid of some performance counter errors (WmiApRpl and BITS) on my SharePoint 2013 installation for a while but couldn't find the answer. Today I decided to have a look with Process Monitor and finally found a solution. The w3wp...
DDoS / rootkit infection mikrjcfxwr
This week one of my XenServers for testing environments was suffering from Network loss and packet loss. My ISP did only see some broadcast traffic and was not sure what was going on. The machine was sometimes responding and had most of the time a very high ICMP...
Linux: Error, some other host already uses address
The last week I did a migration from a Virtual Machine (VMware based) from ISP A to ISP B, and after starting the machine it worked fine. Then I needed to add a new IP to the eth0 interface so I made an ifcfg-eth0:0 config file with the new IP. After starting the...
Missing Private Key on IIS
Yesterday I was working on a new Sharepoint setup for a customer, and this website needed to be SSL only. So only on HTTPS instead of both HTTP and HTTPS. The customer did help us by already buying the Certificate. When I got at the point I wanted to install, I did...
Disable Telephone number link on iPhone/Android
This evening I was updating a website for a customer and noticed on my iPad and iPhone that Tel: +31 (0)123 456 789 numbers got a different color instead of the color i submitted in the CSS code. As i didnt do any CSS on the element i started searching and found out...
Auto Update on SharePoint servers
Somewhere in October Microsoft decided to add a SharePoint update to the Windows Update system. This caused some Sharepoint servers that had enabled Auto Update to stop working and throwing errors all around the place. Now on most servers we have disabled the...
iLO3 not responding on HTTPS
As i'm running several servers in a datacenter, and the DC is a 2 hour drive, I decided to add an iLO interface to my servers (yes it is HP). But for some maintenance preparation i decided to verify the iLO is up and running (just to save my ass for a 2 hour drive),...
Dynamics AX Batch Jobs in waiting status after Upgrade and CU updates
Today i was testing the new CU8 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3, and after the full Compile and full CIL compile I got stuck upon the data upgrade list. The DataUpgrade job was in "Waiting" status and couldnt get it to start. After some digging and modifying the...