How to Merge Hyper-V Snapshots With Powershell

August 25, 2023 1 min read 158 words
Identify your child avhdx file Get-VM | Get-VMHardDiskDrive | Select VMName,Path VMName Path ------ ---- Domain Controller D:\VMs\Domain Controller_1023082130.avhdx Installing the Hyper-V Powershell CMDLETS Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Management-PowerShell Merge the AVHDX Make sure your VM is turned off.

Email Alerts With Fail2ban and Gmail

August 18, 2023 1 min read 196 words
Preface Here's how to setup Fail2ban to send email alerts through GMAIL when failed SSH authentications are made. I'm not going to be too detailed on this but I'll provide the link to setting up Exim4 along with my jail.

Outlook Fix Godaddy Email Server Not Being Found

August 17, 2023 1 min read 176 words
The Issue When adding a GoDaddy or Exchange account to outlook, sometimes you'll get this error when outlook attempts to automatically add the email: "Something went wrong and outlook couldn't setup your account".

Mikrotik Securing Router With Firewall

July 28, 2023 4 min read 824 words
Fresh Start Incase you mess up or want a fresh start, run these two commands to clear all firewall rules and address lists.

Windows Server Setup Ssh Server

July 22, 2023 2 min read 345 words
Sources https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/tutorials/ssh https://superuser.com/questions/1501402/how-to-change-ssh-port-on-windows-10 https://www.concurrency.com/blog/may-2019/key-based-authentication-for-openssh-on-windows Installing the Server This will install the SSH server, start the service, and then whitelist the SSH port.

Windows Server Creating and Viewing a Storport Trace

July 22, 2023 9 min read 1868 words
Creating a StorPort trace using logman.exe LOGMAN.EXE is CLI utility for creating data collector sets. A data collector set can be thought of as a container for choosing which performance counters or trace events to log.

Ffmpeg Convert Flac to 320kbs Mp3

July 22, 2023 1 min read 146 words
Preface The goal is to convert a flac file into a 320kb/s MP3 file whilst retaining all metadata. The only dependencies you need are "ffmpeg" and "id3v2".