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  • DPM 2019 – Invalid Product Key

    While installing System Centre Data Protection Manager 2019 (DPM 2019) and setting your product key, you might get an error message: We’ve found that if you have copied the key from MVLS or similar and then pasted directly into the setup, it fails with the above error. If you simply type the same key instead, […]

  • Setting up a VirtualBox dev environment

    This article runs through the process of setting up a VirtualBox dev box on Windows host machine.  It was written with Laravel in mind, but the steps should apply to most circumstances. I don’t go into actually installing Laravel, there are plenty of guides out there for that! Mainly I wanted to achieve: Ubuntu 64bit virtual machine. […]

  • Showing link status messages in SSH sessions on Cisco switches

    When debugging issues, specially if you’re not 100% sure which port a specific devices is plugged into, I like to see the link status messages in my SSH console. 002449: *Jul 1 15:23:35.434: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface GigabitEthernet4/32, changed state to down By default Cisco switches will not show link status messages in the […]

  • Configuring Ubuntu SMTP Server

    This post details the process to create a standalone SMTP server on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS using Postfix. As Microsoft do not provide basic SMTP services with Office 365 that will work with some of our services we had a requirement for a standalone SMTP server internally on our network. We only needed the ability to […]

  • Simple Shorewall config on Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS

    Here are the steps I used to configure a simple Shorewall firewall on Ubuntu 12.04. The firewall config below provides SSH and HTTP access only; all other ports are blocked. Obviously you can add additional services as required in step 5. Install the Shorewall firewall. sudo apt-get install shorewall Backup the original configuration. sudo cp […]

  • Using PhpStorm with remote documents directories

    If you are attempting to use JetBrains PhpStorm in a domain environment with remote home directories you have probably ran into the following error message. Config path ‘\\yourDomain\yourShare\yourUsername\.WebIde70\config’ is invalid. If you have modified the ‘idea.config.path’ property please make sure it is corect, otherwise please re-install the IDE. Needless to say, reinstalling will not help, and chances are […]

  • Changing WordPress permalink structure on Nginx

    I decided to follow Joost de Valk’s (of Yoast fame) advice for ideal permalink structure and switch my permalinks from year/month/day/postname to postname.  Of course this means that any links already out there and any search engine indexes will now point to the wrong place.  Time for some redirects! There are plenty of guides and […]

  • Deploying AirServer Silently

    Detailed below is the process we used to deploy AirServer (http://www.airserver.com) across our enterprise network silently.  We decided to run the Beta version (1.9), there are many features and bug fixes that were important to us, one major benefit is the new authentication methods.  So far we haven’t had any problems with the Beta version, but […]

  • Using AirServer across subnets

    AirServer (http://www.airserver.com) is a great tool for mirroring iOS Devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod etc.) to your Apple Mac or PC.  Sadly out of the box it won’t work across VLANs/subnets as it requires Bonjour (mDNS, ZeroConf, what ever you like to call it) to work. Detailed below is the process that I used to get […]