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DPM 2016 – Anonymous / Open Relay for SMTP Notifications
DPM 2016 is primarily geared towards using mail servers that require authentication (rightfully so, that’s a best security practice). However, many IT organizations have local mail relay servers with...
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DPM 2016 – Reporting Services Server cannot connect to DPM Database
After installing System Center Data Protection Manager from scratch or after performing an upgrade from DPM 2012 R2, when you attempt to schedule a report to be mailed, you receive the following popup...
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[Tutorial] How to create a bootable USB Drive to flash a Lenovo device’s BIOS
This tutorial will review how to create a bootable USB drive to flash the fimrware/bios on your Lenovo device. Before we begin, Lenovo offers three different downloads for Firmware today: Windows...
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Controlling a Haiku fan with a wall switch
TLDR: I wanted to control the light on Big Ass Fans’ Haiku fan via physical wall switch, so this tutorial is going to go over how to pair a smart switch with Home Assistant software to provide a...
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Using SDRplay RSPduo with RTLSDR-Airplay and a RaspberryPi
One of the side projects I have is rebroadcasting local ATC (Air Traffic Control) audio from my local airport to LiveATC.net. I previously had an RTL-SDR dongle connected to a RaspberryPi 1 Model B,...
View ArticleHow to generate a root certificate and create a self-signed server...
This is going to be a quick tutorial, but here's a quick way to generate a root certificate, server certificate, and bundle them together via pfx file. This can be useful to validate scenarios where a...
View ArticleConfiguring DKIM for Postfix
Fighting spam can be tricky. In addition to SPF records, DKIM is nearly mandatory to help prevent sent emails from being classified as spam. Beginning February of 2024, both Google and Yahoo will...
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You can generate large files for testing on both Linux and Windows machines without having to leverage a 3rd party utility. Windows In Windows, you can use the fsutil utility to create a new file with...
View ArticleSet out of office / autoreply for distribution list for Exchange online
One thing that is a bummer is Exchange online does not support setting an autoreply / out of office message for a distribution list. Usually if you want such functionality, you'd convert the...
View ArticleConfiguring an MQTT broker for Home Assistant
I recently purchased a ratgdo device to replace MyQ's kit for a local non-cloud dependent solution. ratgdo offers homekit, mqtt, and Control4, Nice/Elan, or Crestron integration. For this tutorial,...
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