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vCenter – VMware Appliance Management ‘User password expired’

After 90 days, the password for the 5480 port expires and you need to change it. To do this, we will need console access to the VCSA. Authenticate using the expired root password at the VM prompt, and choose Troubleshooting Mode Options: Enable SSH Use a SSH session to authenticate with the vCenter Once authenticated, do: shell If running this … Read More


GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)

On a disk I wanted to expand I had the error GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite) Do parted:   parted -l   Type fix and press enter      


Hyper-V server won’t show all running VMs after patching

Today we found out that there was a patch messing with our Hyper-V host running Windows 2019, and that it broke how the Hyper-V manager shows the VMs. This patch was possibly KB5022286, but we are not sure at this time. The Hyper-V manager showed only 2 VMs but we had 10 VMs running. When doing a get-vm via powershell, … Read More


Veeam for Linux: failed to load module veeamsnap

In this case we have a Debian physical server running Veeam Endpoint and saving the backups to a Veeam Backup and Replication server. Every now and then the Debian server will stop backing up, and we get this error on the console: 1/04/2023 5:30:32 AM :: Failed to load module [veeamsnap] with parameters [zerosnapdata=1 debuglogging=0 snapstore_block_size_pow=14 change_tracking_block_size_pow=18 logdir=/var/log/veeam fixflags=0 logmaxsize=15728640] … Read More


3CX 18.0 Update 6 and 7 – Problems sending outbound SMS after upgrade – Configuring Telnyx

We recently encountered this problem with a client, having done regular patching on their instance – they suddenly couldn’t send out SMS anymore. The way SMS now works on 3CX has changed, and previous configurations will fail out of the box. First, you will need to set up Telnyx with the new webhook located on the Trunk for Telnyx:   … Read More


Expanding disk on Ubuntu 20.04

Not using Ubuntu often, I found recently that the way of expanding disks has changed or I forgot how it was. After adding storage to your disk, open the terminal as root:   This will rescan the disk echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/device/rescan (note sda as main disk)   cfdisk  If cfdisk doesn’t show the new added storage, use this guide. … Read More


SMTP – Using Office 365 email account with Postfix relay on Ubuntu

In this case we wanted to use an email account from Office 365 to send emails via postfix, to use as the native mail function for WordPress This is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install postfix mailutils In the menu, just use the default entry (Internet Site) Configuring postfix sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf Here we need … Read More


Autodiscovery doesn’t work after migrating from Google Suite to Office 365

We have found this new problem when migrating a client from Google Suite over to Office 365, affecting mainly the Outlook service. Back in the day, just pointing the autodiscovery CNAME record would do the trick. Nowadays, they base this on a secondary service that was called ampli.net, nowadays outlookmobile.com. This caches MX records of the domain and autofills as … Read More


VMware ESXi – Could not complete network copy for file – Cannot relocate virtual machine

While using Storage vMotion or vMotion, you receive this error on a newly comissioned host:   Relocate virtual machine Status: Could not complete network copy for file /vmfs/volumes/5924783e-c94e2bc3-f003-b8ca3a6ae820/TestVM/Test VM.vmdk   Or, when creating a VM from zero, you can’t boot it up:   Error stack: Module ‘Disk’ power on failed. Cannot open the disk ‘/vmfs/volumes/60ac1656-06452eb7-aa7c-3cfdfe9ea734/Test/Test.vmdk’ or one of the snapshot … Read More


Adobe Acrobat Reader and Pro DC – Invalid Numeric Value

We experienced this problem while troubleshooting a PC that couldn’t select the number of copies that they could print, as shown below:     The user could print multiple copies with no problems on other applications but not on the Adobe suite. We would get this error while trying to select advanced functions for printing, or when choosing preferences:   … Read More