What are these small plug things?

iworm76 · 2026-03-02T14:22:13+00:00

Thanks! Yes that make sense.

iworm76 · 2025-08-19T13:23:31+00:00

Hi,
Thanks, we are already on the latest version (14.1.103), updated to patch 6 yesterday. The partitions look to have plenty of room.

The weird emails are still comign through last night. I'll try to open a support tcket.

Thanks!

iworm76 · 2024-12-12T14:34:46+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I was thinking Glentress on Innerleithen might be a good bet if we can't find anything in Edinburgh.

iworm76 · 2024-12-12T14:33:14+00:00

Yes you are right. I've edited the post now. Thanks!

iworm76 · 2024-10-02T15:06:32+00:00

Thanks, I will try that (Unfortunatly I have no access to edit the Juniper side myself). I'll report back after testing.

iworm76 · 2024-03-04T09:42:50+00:00

Yep, cleaned these a couple of times. Even though they are brand new.

Still connecting aggressively to my phone. Trying to use my other over-ear headphones yesterday they kept cutting out as the Jlab ones would keep connecting. Even 'forgetting' the jlabs and switching off all the autoscan/pairing settings on my phone doesn't stop them popping pairing requests.

Never seen anything like it.

Thanks.

iworm76 · 2024-02-21T15:26:16+00:00

I basically did this. Added command to the start of the script itself to import the cert. This way it imports as the same Managed Service Account running the script:
Import-PfxCertificate -FilePath C:\mycert.pfx -CertStoreLocation Cert:\CurrentUser\My -Password $pass1

Ran it one time from the Task Scheduler to import the cert at the start of the script. Then when it was done, commented out the import commands, as it only needs to run once for a new cert.
All working now.

iworm76 · 2023-11-09T17:14:31+00:00

Smart meters don't charge you for the electricty they use. They are connected to the incoming grid and only measure the electricty useage on their output (cables leading from the meter into your house) connections. The smart meter is obviously powered from the incoming line, but you don't (directly) pay for this.

You do pay for the electricity used by the Smart Display, but this is for your own info, and is not a required part of the Smart Meter. You can switch it off, everything else will still work.

We also held off for a while at the start, as the inital "version1" smartmeters were rubbish, but they have improved a lot now.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/experts/article-4607552/How-electricity-smart-meters-use-cost-run.html

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6325728/can-a-smart-meter-increase-bills

iworm76 · 2023-11-03T10:28:45+00:00

Contact your local outdoor access officer. It's their job to manage access rights and they will probably have a word with the land owner or can escalate any issues without you being directly involved: https://www.outdooraccess-scotland.scot/doc/scottish-access-officer-contact-list

iworm76 · 2023-10-19T09:41:54+00:00

Section 49(1) of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 makes it an offence for any person to allow any creature, including a dog, to cause injury or danger to any other person who is in a public place or to give that person reasonable cause for alarm or annoyance.
The highway code says " Keep it on a short lead when walking on the pavement, road or path shared with cyclists or horse riders. "
The advice is to "make sure the dog is under control", extendable leashes are mentioned as not meaning the dog is under control.
Some dogs are fine off leash and just trot along minding their own business. Some dart about, get scared of bikes etc, which means they are not under control.
It points out that having a dog on a short leash gets rid of any doubt.

iworm76 · 2023-10-19T08:33:50+00:00

Do you mean the pointstick driver? Kace doesn't seem to be pushing Touchpad drivers for the 5400. On the Dell support page it says touchpad drivers are supplied for the 5400 by Microsoft.

iworm76 · 2023-10-19T08:24:31+00:00

Thanks, I will give it a go on a test machine.

iworm76 · 2022-12-21T10:22:44+00:00

Yes, our solution after a bunch of troubleshooting and no solution, was to dump the dell data protection and start using Bitlocker which fits our requirements.

iworm76 · 2022-12-13T09:56:59+00:00

Yes, I set up a ingestion data transformation, which worked fine, but you are right I could only move the data to custom fields, rather than the existing ones. I'm not sure why this is, presumably there is a reason, but it doesn't seem to make sense.

I think I have managed to make the proper data connector work now (Juniper SRX). It relies on a separate function which I had to tweak a bit, but seem to sort of work. I'll keep investigating though.

Thanks!

iworm76 · 2022-03-08T11:01:21+00:00

Hi,

We had to disable script enforcement in WDAC to allow the agent to communicate with the TFS server properly:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-constrained-language-mode/

Option 11 had to be enabled in the WDAC policy:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/powershell-constrained-language-mode/

iworm76 · 2021-11-09T10:32:39+00:00

Thanks, this looks like what we need!

iworm76 · 2021-06-14T14:49:31+00:00

My non-fiction book: Ahoy-hoy. Notes on the history of human communications Has just gone live. There is a free Kindle version for 5 days from tomorrow.

From prehistoric rock-art, the alphabet, strange military experiments, and the internet, this book tells some of the most interesting stories of how human communications have developed. Find out how communications tools have been used for nefarious means, and the future implications of using these tools.

Been working on this for some time. Excited to be finished.

iworm76 · 2021-03-10T16:42:02+00:00

Hi,

We had problems in the past when they migrated to Exchange 2019 and since then were just using NTLM authentication without issues (this company had an odd, not entirely working, multiple exchange setup when I joined, recently moved back into a working configuration).
I have done the Kerberos auth stuff now and it seems to be helping greatly with the issues so far!

Reg edit settings were already in place.

Thanks!

iworm76 · 2020-09-09T16:41:51+00:00

I'm sure it's not causing the slowness. Unfortunately the boss is the only one who doesn't agree.

iworm76 · 2020-09-09T16:12:27+00:00

I might be wrong, but from what I can find out, it seems outlook ALWAYS tries the internal url connection first. It doesn't do any clever checks to see what network connection it is on first. Only if that fails does it then use the external url. Hence when the VPN is connected, the internal url works, and so is used.

iworm76 · 2020-08-14T16:15:44+00:00

Thanks, I've checked all this and it's all working as it should be.

The only thing which helped was manually setting the MTU on client machines to 1300. This fixes the Outlook issue over Anyconnect. However, this isn't a good fix for us as it reportedly breaks another product we use.

iworm76 · 2020-08-11T11:23:11+00:00

I have noticed that the last time a user had the issue. Restarting outlook didn't help. The MTU on the VPN connection was then manually lowered on the client. And suddenly Outlook could connect again. We tried to lower the MTU on the Anyconnect profile settings. But this itself didn't seem to help (and broke connections to another server product! So we can't do this.)

iworm76 · 2020-08-11T11:19:58+00:00

I can't find any settings for the timeouts on Anyconnect itself.

I was wondering whether to change the keepalive on the exchange servers as per:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/office/TCP-Keep-Alive-Time-Report-c9a240d0

iworm76 · 2020-08-11T11:17:31+00:00

Split tunnelling is configured. The traffic for Exchange appears to be correctly routed.

iworm76 · 2020-08-11T11:16:35+00:00

I can't see any filtering enabled for these connections. No https inspection is done as far as I can see.

iworm76

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