Ran into a little issue I wanted to log here. After installing the Salt Minions on the servers we were getting the following error when running apt-get update: W: GPG error: http://repo.saltstack.com trusty InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0E08A149DE57BFBE This… Continue reading
Ran into an issue the other day when installing and registering a Salt Minion with its master. The Host name wasn’t exactly what my OCD wanted when it registered its Key with the Master, so I needed to change the name of the key. Stop the Salt-Minion Service (service salt-minion… Continue reading
Server 2008 R2 – Fully Patched (x8 different servers) VM running on VMWare 5.x IIS Server running Front End and App Server DHCP assigned IP address 8 our of a total of 20 servers for this customer all doing the same roles “Register this Connections addresses in DNS” was checked… Continue reading
I am a perfectionist .. Well when it comes to technologies. In that I am very OCD on my email folders and settings. I keep my inbox clean throughout the day, mainly because I am in it all day. I know this is not good for my mental health but… Continue reading
Real quick post on a tech tip type of incident I ran into today. On a server I needed to simply see who has logged into it. I am sure there are several hundred of ways to complete this, but my technique was to check out the security event log…. Continue reading
Type rsop.msc into the run box and then hit enter see which Group Policy settings have been applied to your machine or user account gpresult /Scope Computer /v
You have seen the Mainstream News and Blog posts all over the tech field, but even here at my “Government Agency” we still have the same issues that larger companies will also have. Slow IT roll out of systems. As i found out today: Of course I am running Firefox… Continue reading
You can free up disk space on your servers by disabling hibernate. Windows 2008 will create a hiberfil.sys equal to the amount of RAM. To disable hibernation, and reclaim that space, run this command: powercfg -h off
To change a user’s password at the command prompt, log on as an administrator and type:net user user_name * /domain When you are prompted to type a password for the user, type the new password, not the existing password. After you type the new password, the system prompts you to… Continue reading
You can see all the open files on a system by running this command:openfiles /query