When adding an Internet connection to a Fortinet firewall that is already in production, it’s possible that the new WAN interface does not show up in the list of available interfaces to add to the virtual SD-WAN interface. First, check that there are no references (Firewall policies or other) to the WAN interface. Existing references […]

We recently received a notification from Microsoft 365 that all legacy Authentication methods for MFA and SSPR need to be migrated to Azure AD Authentication Methods policy by September 2024. Microsoft provided step by step instructions, but we always ended up with an error message when attempting to complete the migration: Couldn’t save the new […]

In a Ubiquiti / Unfi Wi-Fi environment, it’s fairly easy to create a separate guest WiFi network and let visitors authenticate with their Facebook login. Your Wi-Fi guest guest profile must be linked to a Facebook company page. This is done on the Unifi network application / controller. If you link the Guest profile to […]

A company contacted us because they had run into issues with Exchange 2016 Webmail/OWA and the Exchange Control Panel (ECP). Both threw an HTTP 500 error. Exchange 2016 had not been updated since 2017 and was still running on Cumulative Update 4 (CU4). HTTP 500 internal server error On the Exchange server itself, we saw […]

In smaller networks, it can sometimes be difficult to get HP iLO mail alerts to work, because iLO4 does not support SMTP authentication, meaning you need to have access to an SMTP relay. While it’s possible to use Microsoft IIS for this purpose, it’s not ideal since the IIS server might be unavailable when iLO […]

When setting up a Cisco wireless network using the Cisco Mobility Express virtual wireless LAN controller (WLC), we ran into problems getting the WLC to accept join requests from new access points. The WLC commands we used for troubleshooting were: show ap join stats summary all – This showed us all the new access points […]

Every now and then, we run into weird and unprecedented WordPress problems and the below scenario presents one that we encountered in October 2020. All of a sudden, many of our clients were unable to log on to their WordPress sites. This also affected our WordPress admin accounts. WordPress just said: ”Invalid username or password”. […]

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After installing iCloud for Windows, you will be offered an option to add your iCloud email account to Microsoft Outlook. Sometimes, the process stops with an unknown error of 0x80040102. In our experience, this normally happens if your Outlook profile contains a single IMAP-based email account (like Gmail). To solve the issue, add a blank […]

If you are setting up a WPA2 enterprise Wifi network using Windows Network Policy Server and RADIUS, make sure that the NPS server is using a trusted certificate where the name of the NPS server is explicitly mentioned in the certificate. If you are attempting to use a wildcard certificate on your NPS server, Windows […]