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  •   17 Feb 2019  

    Setup VNC in Ubuntu

    vnc iconYou have a server, but want to setup VNC to access the GUI? We use this tutorial for our systems and wanted to share. (ALT is an IT consulting company, offering technical support for Mac, PC and Linux systems). We try to keep things updated, but tutorials have a tendency of exiring, so some steps may be different for newer versions. We've used Ubuntu 16.04 to install, but it should work with others as well.

    Install the components

    apt-get -y install ubuntu-desktop tightvncserver xfce4 xfce4-goodies autocutsel

    Add the vnc user and give it a password:

    adduser vnc
    passwd vnc

    You can add vnc as sudo, so you could run apps as root. Edit the sudoers file:

    echo "vnc ALL=(ALL)       ALL" >> /etc/sudoers

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  •   17 Feb 2019  

    Add a software RAID to Linux

    linux-icon-19 We have added this tutorial, because we use it very often ourselves. (ALT is an IT consulting company, providing support for Apple, Windows and Linux based systems and servers.) It describes steps for adding extra disks to an already existing system, not converting current ones to RAID (the disks will be wiped, so don't do it on the OS partition!) We are adding a RAID1 software RAID to most common Linux distributions (the setps should work on any one of them).

    We have used 2 disks for this:
    /dev/sdb: 500.1
    /dev/sdc 500.1

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  •   08 Feb 2019  

    Create a PDF from a series of images

    pdf-logoWe often get asked, if there's a simple way to join PDFs from many images under linux. The task is very trivial, if you have 1-2 images, as you can use many of the graphical applications. If you have 10-20 or more, we recommend pdfjoin. It runs under Linux on a command line and allows for a quick images to PDF combine.

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  •   27 Jan 2019  

    Bash: determine if the week is odd or even

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    We regularly post scripts and script snippets that we have found useful in our day-to-day IT support tasks. Here's a quick way to help determine if the week is odd or even using a bash script. You can replace the echo "even" and "odd" with whatever functions you are looking to perform, such as weekly backups for example. Although not tested, this script should also work on any version of Apple's Mac.

    Copy and paste this into a file:

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  •   17 Jan 2019  

    Check if your email was hacked

    It was reported in the news recently that a large collection of email addresses and passwords used to hijack accounts on other services was discovered being distributed on a popular hacking forum. The data contained almost 2.7 billion records including 773 million unique email addresses alongside with passwords for these emails, used for other services. icon security thumbThis is not new and we, as an IT service company, are constantly receiving questions of whether or not an email account has been stolen (largely as a result of email spoofing).

    If you are concerned about your email account, here's a good tool to check if it was hacked and, if it was, where did the hack occur. The information is not exhaustive, but it gives an idea:

    https://haveibeenpwned.com/

    It is important to remember that passwords should be changed regularly and not duplicated on other services. The best option is to use a password generating tool, to avoid password replication.

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  •   16 Jan 2019  

    Turn Mac on after power outage

    apple logoQ. Hello IT Support, I know there's a feature in BIOS for PCs to be turned on after a power outage. Is there such a function in a Mac?

    A. Yes, this is a useful feature to have for remote computer access. If you login with an account that has administrative privileges, you should be able to do that. Go to:

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  •   12 Jan 2019  

    Exchange Autodiscover keeps reverting back

    exchange-2013Q: We have switching our Exchange server to another one, but the autodiscover keeps reverting back to the old server. Is there a way to fix this?

    A: You can manually bypass the Microsoft Exchange settings. (Below was tested on Exchange 2010 and 2013.)

     

    Adjust the following registry settings. Depending on your version of Microsoft Office the number between "Office" and "Outlook" will change. For example, in Outlook 2007 it is 12.0, for Outlook 2010 it is 14.0, for Outlook 2016 it is 16.0:

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  •   10 Jan 2019  

    RDS Client Access License error (and how to fix)

    On some occasions, when accessing an Remote Desktop Server that gives out licenses based on devices, you may get this error:

    Error: The remote session was disconnected because the Remote Desktop client access license stored on this computer has been modified

    You can fix this using the following steps:

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  •   02 Jan 2019  

    Restore grub2 in Linux (Ubuntu)

    If for some reason your grub has gotten corrupted, here are the steps to restore it.

    Boot into a rescue CD (either Ubuntu or System Rescue CD, which you can download freely).

    Mount the drive, where sdXY is the partition (eg: /dev/sda1)

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