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Tech - Resetting Windows Password - Editing SAM Database

Tech - Resetting Windows Password - Editing SAM Database

Here we go again... Day starts 'finds server that x person from years back built..' Eh?! Username & Password!? Lets check documentation! No username or password for that server was saved.... Shit. No, but seriously how to sort this? NOTE: I've written this guide alongside VMware

Tech - Ubuntu/MacOS/Debian - Generate Random (x) Base64 String

Tech - Ubuntu/MacOS/Debian - Generate Random (x) Base64 String

This one is a bit of a quick post. I found that sometimes I find myself needing something random to use as a key etc.. Using OpenSSL we can create a string of whatever length we like. Here I did 64. openssl rand -base64 64 | tr -d '\n'

Cars - Introduction

Cars - Introduction

At the time of writing, I've been driving for 7 years. But I've always had a large amount of respect for the car as both an entity but also as something that can be a mood changer. I feel there is a car out there for

Tech - VMware 8 - vCenter Root Password Expired

Tech - VMware 8 - vCenter Root Password Expired

Here we go use of my VCP. Tested on VMware vCenter 8! Ok, lets go and try and login to upgrade vCenter! No. We've all been here if you've ever used vCenter! Sodding root password has expired. So thankfully this is a nice job. Attempt to

Music - The Universal Language?

Music - The Universal Language?

Ok. So this is where we're going to take a look at the musical side of things. If you don't know, I've been a 'musical' brain for more than I can remember! Someone who will remain nameless once said that I'

Moronic - 2 Meanings one word or a misunderstanding? [EXPLICIT]

Moronic - 2 Meanings one word or a misunderstanding? [EXPLICIT]

I'd like to post this in respect of the crazy days. Thanks Phil E for this! The Sonos will never forget it!

Tech - HPE Nimble - All Red LEDs

Tech - HPE Nimble - All Red LEDs

Ah! We're getting to some interesting stuff here! Bugger. Why are all the disks in the array red!?! Turns out that for some strange reason, there is a bug with the Nimble 'bug AS-116339' Not sure if this was just related to the version that we

Tech - Windows Server 2022 - Allowing ICMP (Ping) Blocked?

Tech - Windows Server 2022 - Allowing ICMP (Ping) Blocked?

Honorable Mention: Alistair M! Note: All this is done at your own risk! Ever had that typical issue when troubleshooting? Ah lets try and ping it! Pinging -.-.-.- with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics

Personal - Have Boulies made the perfect chair for my ****?

Personal - Have Boulies made the perfect chair for my ****?

Thanks for the suggested title! TL;DR - Yes! So Boulie's chairs seem to be all over Instagram at the moment. And this is a random blog out of nowhere about some chair why should I read on?! Just stay with me on this one. This saga starts

Tech - Windows Server - Random reboot on startup.

Tech - Windows Server - Random reboot on startup.

Interesting one, recently been dealing with a couple of large Windows Servers that for some reason following a reboot, didn't want to start. Strange behavior I'd see that Windows would attempt to start but pre-login would reboot. Finally I ended up in recovery mode. Note: All

Tech - Powershell - Export Users

Tech - Powershell - Export Users

Note: All this is done at your own risk. Little snippet that someone asked me to do for them as they were struggling. Normally I'd use something like: Get-ADUser -Filter 'DisplayName -eq "NAME"' I was asked to output the phone numbers from ALL users

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