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November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Fixing an Issue On Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V with Uneven Distribution of Available CPU Cores

Issue: When guest-VMs are being migrated between Hyper-V Hosts within a cluster, CPU core scheduling…
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November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Add New Virtual Disk to Existing Guest VM in Hyper-V

# Adding disks (optional) $newVMNames='TestWindows2019' $extraDiskSize='200GB' if($extraDiskSize){ foreach($newVmName in $newVMNames){ STOP-VM -vmname $newVmName $diskFile=(join-path $destinationFolder…
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November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

An Indication That Microsoft Office 365 Email Connector Doesn’t Like Large IP Blocks

As we've advised our clients to configure their O365 to 'whitelist' or allow email relays…
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October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Upgrade NextCloud 22.1.1 to 22.2.0 When Deployed with Kubernetes & Helm

Step 1: Navigate to nextcloud > html > edit version.php <?php $OC_Version = array(22,1,1,2); $OC_VersionString…
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October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Kubernetes Ingress Error 502 Upon NextCloud Upgrades

Issue: Just the other day, I've attempted to run a 'helm upgrade…' command on my…
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October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Kubernetes: Cert-Manager x509 ECDSA verification failure

Symptoms Error from server (InternalError): error when creating "kimconnect-cert.yaml": Internal error occurred: failed calling webhook…
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October 30, 2021October 30, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Kubernetes: Cert-Manager Certificate Request YAML Example

# Set variables certPrefix=kimconnect domainName=kimconnect.com domainName2=www.kimconnect.com serviceName=kimconnectblog-wordpress servicePort=8080 # Create a yaml file and create…
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October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Obtain List of Hyper-V Hosts via Active Directory

# listHyperVHostsInForests.ps1 # Version: 0.03 function listHyperVHostsInForests{ # Ensure that AD management module is available…
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October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Domain Name Records Overview: A-record, MX, DKIM, SPF, SRV

A RECORD (A-host): - What: address record (A-record) specifies the IP address(es) of a given…
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October 10, 2021October 10, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Kubernetes: Use Helm to Deploy WordPress

Deploying WordPress in a Kubernetes cluster isn't as straight-forward is one might expect. As the…
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October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Rename Hyper-V Object and Clustered Role Resource

$oldName='testWindows' $newName='server01.intranet.kimconnect.com' # Rename Hyper-V Clustered Resource: Guess VM $vm=Get-clustergroup -Cluster (get-cluster).Name -Name $oldName $vm.Name=$newName…
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October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Adding a Domain Security Group into the Hyper-V Administrator Users Group

Issue: Resolution: Click Start > Control Panel > Administration Tools > Computer Management > System Tools…
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October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

WordPress NextGen Gallery Plugin Error

Error Message: Failed to load plugin url: /bitnami/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/products/photocrati_nextgen/modules/attach_to_post/static/ngg_attach_to_post_tinymce_plugin.js?ver=3.17 Resolution: Although the root cause hasn't been…
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August 29, 2021August 29, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Install Graylog in a Kubernetes Cluster Using Helm Charts

The following narrative is based on the assumption that a Kubernetes (current stable version 20.10)…
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August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Configure Alternative Storage for a Kubernetes (K8s) Worker Node

The below illustration is assuming that one has a local RAID mount being added to…
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August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

PowerShell: Quick Snippet to Purge All ‘Orphaned’ Records of Resources in VMM

The Script: # removeMissingResourcesInVmm.ps1 $noConfirmations=$false # $true = no confirmations, $false=confirm each stale record removal…
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August 24, 2021August 24, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

A Quick Note On How To Preserve Client Source IP’s on K8s Services

namespace=ingress-nginx servicename=ingress-nginx-controller kubectl edit svc $servicename -n $namespace # edit this value from Cluster to…
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August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Problem: NextCloud Would Not Start Due to Versioning Variance

This issue has occurred when NextCloud has been upgraded after deployment. Its source docker container…
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August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Move WordPress Site To Kubernetes Cluster

a. Create backups of source files and database - Logon to Current Hosting Provider to…
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August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Dynamics NFS Provisioning in Kubernetes Cluster

Step 1: Creating NFS Server A. Create NFS Share on File ServerThere are many ways…
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