How to obtain the windows 8 serial on Dell notebooks
In recent Dell notebooks (but I guess that this is valid for other vendors too) that are already sold and delivered with the preinstalled operating system is no longer located on the bottom of the laptop's famous sticker with the microsoft operating system serial. This is because the serial is integrated in the laptop bios, […]
How to remove a dead subdomain (without domain controller) from active directory
Ok…. let's say you have an example.local domain with a subdomain.example.local subdomain , you don't need subdomain subdomain.example.local anymore, and you must delete it to clean up the AD tree. How to do it? Simple! Just uninstall the last domain controller that manages the subdomain and you're done! Exact! But if the last domain controller in question is not […]
How to enable Remote Desktop automatically via GPO
In xp, vista and seven the configuration items that need to be activated are two: one for the activation of remote desktop service and another to configure the exception on the integrated firewall that for good practice should be active on the client. 1) Firewall exception: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Network Connections > Windows Firewall > Domain Profile […]
Cisco VPN Client “ERROR 56: THE CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. VPN SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN STARTED”
Some time ago I happened this error every time I tried to start the cisco vpn client: Cisco VPN Client “ERROR 56: THE CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. VPN SERVICE HAS NOT BEEN STARTED "I had made no changes to the particular networking pc, I had not added other vpn client, I had not changed anything […]
How to reset the password grpadmin Dell EqualLogic
In case you missed the administrative password of the equallogic grpadmin user (serious thing…) there is still a way to reset it, to do this you will still need to contact Dell support and these are the steps to follow: 1) Connect a serial cable to the active controller 2) At the prompt […]
How to reset the join group password of a Dell EqualLogic
The password to join an existing group of EqualLogic (which is different from the password of management user grpadmin) is set during the initial configuration of the storage. Should you lose / forget it, it is easily reconfigurable from the web administration interface; just go to members -> set password and you will see a dialog box to reset the password […]
Yahoo ITXP!
In 2015 I decided to create this new site / blog in which to put some food for thoughts, examples of configurations, solutions to problems that arise during the everyday hassles as part of my job. I am a systems engineer and I have been working in the IT for the last eight years, I will use this blog as “personal memory” but I hope that some […]
