Have you ever tried to run an installer that required internet connectivity to pull down files from an external site -- and it failed? Sometimes you can find an offline installer and in those cases, it is best to use that. Other times, you can't. Why do these stub style installers fail when you are … Continue reading Setting the System Proxy in Windows

When setting up a check printing environment for a client, I ran into an issue where even though I changed the /etc/cupsd.conf file to listen on port 443, the service would not actually start! Why not use the CUPS default port 631? Simple answer - too many of the client's Palo Alto firewalls were configured … Continue reading Changing CUPS to run on Port 443 with SELinux

Everywhere I have worked, we had the same cultural problem where people leave AD computer objects in the default Computers container. Everyone from desktop support to server engineers to storage engineers. This is because when you join a computer (or service - i.e. NAS) to the domain, unless the object is staged, the object will … Continue reading How to deal with AD Objects left in default Computers container