Determine SQL 2014 Version
Milestone XProtect Essentials+ 2017 R3 installed a version of SQL 2014. SQL Management Studio is not installed. I need to download the SQL Express installer so I can do a …
SqlServerWriter VSS 8229 error 0x800423f4
I recently installed XProtect Essential+ 2017 R3 on a Windows 7 x64 Pro machine. XProtect installed SQL 2014. The machine is backed up daily by a Server 2012 R2 Essentials …
Cron Failed to Fork and DB Update Failed
I got this in a cron email from a Bitnami Linux machine hosted on Azure: /etc/cron.daily/apt: FATAL -> Failed to fork. following by this one for a few days once …
Upgrade UniFi Controller Running as a Service
Ubiquiti provides instructions here for running the UniFi Controller as a service. What they don’t tell you is that when you try to upgrade the controller, you can’t, because the …
DNS Unresponsive on Essentials VPN
On my new-ish Server 2016 with the Essentials role, I set up the Anywhere Access VPN with a static address pool (described here). When I connected via VPN from a …
UniFi Site-to-Site IPsec VPN with Two Controllers
I have two UniFi USGs, each on its own local controller, and I wanted to set up a site-to-site IPsec VPN. Here’s what worked.
Essentials Certificates Re-Issued Every Two Days, VPN Fails
I installed Server 2016 Standard with the Essentials role about three months ago. I set up mydomain.remotewebaccess.com in the Anywhere Access Wizard. It automatically revoked a certificate with the same …
Control Inter-VLAN Communication with the UniFi USG Firewall
You have a UniFi Security Gateway (USG). You want to allow your LAN to talk to all VLANs, but VLANs cannot talk to the LAN or to other VLANs. How …
Outlook 2016 Cannot Add to Dictionary
Recently I added a non-admin user to my computer and migrated my user profile with the excellent Profile Wizard 3.12 from ForensIT. Almost everything came over flawlessly, but one idiosyncrasy …
CrashPlan Causes Windows Server Backup to Fail on System State
I recently migrated to Server 2016 with the Essentials role. The server runs as a Hyper-V virtual machine. Windows Backup writes to a drive hosted on a VHDX file. Almost …