Inbound Calls Failing with 488 Not Acceptable Here
This morning one of my customers could not receive inbound calls. They are running a Grandstream UCM6302 PBX with a Telnyx SIP trunk. The trunk uses registration, UDP for SIP, …
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Load Custom VROC Drivers for Veeam Disaster Recovery
After a failed Microsoft patch that could not be uninstalled (blogged here), I recently had a do a bare-metal restore of the system drive of an HPE ProLiant MicroServer. The …
KB5041054 Install on Server 2022 Failed, Repair Not Possible
On June 21, I told N-able Patch Management to install the out-of-band KB5041054 on a Server 2022 Hyper-V host. Here’s the Microsoft details on that patch: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/june-20-2024-kb5041054-os-build-20348-2529-out-of-band-b746ffbd-934e-42ac-9c66-ed0636edf7f1
Inspect Disk Space Used on a Synology NAS
This has come up a couple times for different reasons, so I want to document some procedures.
Server 2022 Doesn’t Offer Optional Updates
I’ve been puzzling over this for a while so I thought I’d create a post at least to document the question.
Chrome and Google Sync Install Nightmare Solved
After upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit Microsoft Office, I needed to get Google Workspace Sync for Outlook re-installed on a Windows 10 computer. I probably spent five hours going in …
QuickBooks Upgrades Leave Old Users, Shuts Down Computer
An interesting issue arose in this evening’s I.T. group meeting. One member reported that a client’s server shuts down every Sunday because QuickBooks upgrades add a new user every year. …
Packet Tracing from a Synology NAS
I have several network cameras on a separate VLAN. They are managed from a Synology DS1520+ NAS. A while back, I was troubleshooting some other network issue and I noticed …
Restore Server Test – 2024 Edition
Over the years, I’ve published multiple articles about testing a server restore at a client site. The idea is to confirm that if the server went down, I could quickly …
Windows 10 Home and User Privileges
Working on a Windows 10 Home installation recently, I noticed that the primary user was an administrator. For best security, I prefer to have users work as non-admins, then have …