PowerShell Script to Check and Disable SMBv1
SMBv1 is an old network protocol targeted by the now-infamous WannaCry virus. Although the issue exploited by WannaCry was patched in March 2017, SMBv1 was left enabled by default, leaving …
Re-Install WordPress
Let’s say you have a test install of WordPress 4.7.4 and you accidentally delete the database. Let’s say you have created an empty test database. Let’s say all your WordPress …
Juno SpeedBand Forces Bad Proxy
If you use locally-installed Juno for your email, you may have their “SpeedBand” technology that supposedly speeds up Internet browsing. Apparently it’s doing this with some kind of local cache …
Analyze a Windows Error Code
This is one of those things that I easily forget by the time I need it. Maybe putting it in a blog post will help. Assume you see error 2147942667 …
WordPress Notify Author on Comment
By default, WordPress does not notify the post author when they comment on their own post. They also don’t get notified after approving someone else’s comment on their post.
Distinctive Ringing for Internal Extensions with 3CX and Yealink
A customer using 3CX v.15 with Yealink T42S phones would like calls from internal extensions to have a distinctive ring.
April 2017 Monthly Rollup Breaks VB6 App
I maintain a client-server database app written in VB6 that uses ADO and COM+/DCOM. After installing the “April, 2017 Security Monthly Quality Rollup,” the VB6 app crashes in msado15.dll and …
Restore Server to Desktop – 2017 Edition
Once a year, I test restoring a server to a desktop. The server is backed up with standard Windows Backup. The idea is to confirm that if the server went …
Disable SIP ALG on Tomato Shibby
A PBX vendor like 3CX may tell you to disable SIP ALG on your router. I’m running Tomato on my router, specifically Tomato Firmware 1.28.0000 MIPSR2-132 K26 Max. With the …
Use Certutil to Get File Hash
I have been happily using the tiny Bullzip MD5 Calculator to quickly get an MD5 hash directly from the context menu in Windows Explorer. But what if you need a …