Alek Patsouris

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  1. Outlook Mobile / Apple Mobile Mail & Shared Mailboxes — 3 comments
  2. HTTP and HTTPS with f5 GSLB — 2 comments
  3. Migrating from Onapp to VMware — 2 comments
  4. Folding@Home Diskless cluster — 2 comments
  5. Juniper SRX and FTTN VDSL — 2 comments

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VMware vCenter Appliance (VCSA) + GRUB_

I recently shutdown our VCSA to complete some maintenance to the host it was on. Booted the host, Booted the VCSA and was greeted with the sight no sysadmin wants to see: GRUB _No shell, no menu, nuffin! In all linux, it means that the the boot flag is set on the drive, but it …

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Exchange 2019 + Office Online Server 2016

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In the age of M365 and Google Apps, not many people still run on prem servers – but we do. Recently we upgraded to Exchange 2019 on prem with Office Online 2016 for document preview in Outlook on the Web (eg, OWA. I’m just going to call it OWA because lets face it, it will …

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SAMBA Time Machine Backups

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They all wanted to compile and use netatalk (usually from source). I hate doing this. It is a PITA to update, manage with repos, dependencies break…. It’s just, work. Surely this has to be able to be done in SAMBA natively, just like QNAP did

Sonicwall + Opengear – Console Cable

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Opengear console servers are considered one of the best options out there. Delivering a reliable Out of Band solution however you need it. But what happens when you try and connect Opengear and Sonicwall – easy, right? Wrong.

Bulk editing Observium ports

I was introduced to Observium a couple of years ago, and it is a fantastic tool for network monitoring – specifically the actual network (Switches / Routers / Firewalls / etc). I haven’t shut up about it since. It has forked out a few times now (software like LibreNMS) which at some point i should …

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