3CX and the Secret DND Feature
With a 3CX 16 SP5 installation, all calls to a user were being diverted to voicemail. Verbose logging showed that the system thought the extension had DND enabled, but the …
Hardening LDAP in Server 2016 Essentials
If you run a fully patched Windows Server Essentials 2016, you’ve probably been seeing this event in your daily Health Report since around March 2020:
Format a Sharp MX-3570N Hard Disk
Many copiers have hard disks, which over the years may accumulate confidential information, which may or may not get wiped on deletion. When a Sharp MX-3570N was about to be …
Windows Defender 99% CPU at Logon
Just logged on to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials machine for the first time in a couple days. Windows Defender immediately kicked off a Full Scan, basically bringing the server …
UniFi Server Reject after Moving Switch
A customer was consolidating two offices into one. Both were on the same UniFi controller. Each office had its own USG and its own range of IP addresses. I needed …
Generating PDF Thumbnails with Bitnami WordPress
I’m running Bitnami’s WordPress on a Microsoft Azure Ubuntu machine. It seems the default setup does not support the WordPress 4.7 feature to automatically generate PDF thumbnails on upload.
Some WSUS Maintenance
I use WSUS at a small-ish site (14 clients). The WSUS server runs on the same machine as Server 2016 Essentials. For quite a while, the server has not been …
GoldLink Not Working after 3CXPhone Update
3CX phone system updates sometimes include updates to the 3CXPhone desktop client software. For example, after installing 3CX v16 SP5, released April 22, 2020, users running 3CXPhone will be prompted …
Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Warning Installing GoldLink
You may get a Microsoft Defender SmartScreen warning when you install MCB GoldLink to 3CX. The GoldLink installer is digitally signed, but SmartScreen warnings for this kind of signing certificate …
PowerShell to List Files That Don’t Inherit Permissions or Whose Paths Are Too Long
Ever update permissions in Windows Explorer only to get repeated errors about updates that were blocked, probably because you didn’t have Owner privileges on the file? In the aftermath (or …