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MacOS upgade to Monterey (12), firmware error

Posted on 2022/06/02 by arno Posted in ABFrontpage, Apple, Mac OSX

My hardware: MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) – A1398

In 2018 I research the interface of the Apple-SSD interface, turns out it has NVME capability with tested R/W speed 2000MB/s
So I upgraded the disk to WD NVME-SSD 1Tb Black (WDS100T2X0C) running verry nicely.

Updating MacOS went just fine from ‘Yosemite (10.10)’ and on till ‘Catalina (10.15)’,
I posponed the upgrade after this becouse of the major (IMO) iTunes cluster-F* ripping all the functionalities out and making it even worst then iTunes .. **go figure!
And the significant changes to the interface in Big Sur and Maverick, so delaying the update from 2019..2022.

So after multi-timemachine backups I started the upgrade all looked fine until the reboot.
It was rebooted in to the recovery enviroment and the message “A required firmware update could not be installed.”
Just rebooting with the <option> key pressed and selecting the MacOS-disk reverted back to the old Catalina.

After reading some DuckDuckGo.com* searches it turns out updating the firmware requires an original Apple-SSD.

I could not find the old one, so ordered a 2nd-hand 256Gb Apple-SSD online.
Installed catalina and upgraded to Monterey on the Apple-SDD,
Afterwards replaced the NVME-SSD, booted and upgraded to Monterey smoothly.

My firmware was too old to use an workaround doing it manually.
The Eclecticlight Company Utility SilentKnight nice tool to view the current firmware

*DuckDuckGo.com results:
Monterey: “A required firmware update could not be installed.”
Which firmware should your Mac be using? (version 6)firmware-should-your-mac-be-using-version-6/

Goodluck upgradeing..

Apple MacOS

Configuring Region and Timezone Settings for Shared Mailboxes in Microsoft 365 Using PowerShell

Posted on 2021/06/28 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/connect-to-exchange-servers-using-remote-powershell?view=exchange-ps

PowerShell commands

PowerShell (Run as Administrator)

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
$creds = Get-Credential
$sourceone = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange –ConnectionUri “https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/” -Credential $creds –Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
Import-PSSession $sourceone

For all shared mailboxes:
Get-Mailbox –RecipientTypeDetails SharedMailbox | Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration –Language “en-US” –TimeZone “Central Standard Time” –DateFormat “M/d/yyyy” –TimeFormat “h:mm tt”

For a single shared or user mailbox:
Get-Mailbox –Identity sharedmailbox@sourceonetechnology.com | Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration –Language “en-US” –TimeZone “Central Standard Time” –DateFormat “M/d/yyyy” –TimeFormat “h:mm tt”

For *all* mailboxes:
Get-Mailbox | Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration –Language “en-US” –TimeZone “Central Standard Time” –DateFormat “M/d/yyyy” –TimeFormat “h:mm tt”

Remove-PSSession $sourceone

RaspberryPI – Arduino

Posted on 2016/09/11 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Arduino 1-Wire | Hacktronics tutorial | Adresfinder |

CAN-Bus breakout RS485

http-post requests | Example | Arduino-forum |

EncFS

Multiple vLans | Raspberry vLans

Mobile 3G/4G connections | Goes Mobile

vmServer 2014

Posted on 2016/09/11 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

vmServer 2014

Hardware

Mainboard | Intel ARK | Product brief pdf
Processor | Intel xeon 3 ARK | ARK v3 – v5
Memory |
HBA |
Storage | Intel SSD 530 | SSD 540 |
RAID | Intel RAID Sollutions | Intel RS3DC (Download) |

VMware | Compatibility guide |

VMware notes | RAID Driver ESXi 5 | ESXi 6 controllers
VMware notes | Google RMS3CC080 | RMS25JB080 |

Office 365 Features

Posted on 2016/09/11 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Microsoft 365 / Office 365

Prices

NL | Office 365 | Exchange online | Enterprise

US | Office 365 | Exchange online | Enterprise


MS365 / O365 | Exchange

Send as an alias in O365


MacOS Mail – Native Mail App instructions

  1. Go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts.
  2. Click Add Account.
  3. Select Other.
  4. On the Other screen, touch Add Mail Account.
  5. In the new screen, you will enter:
    • Name: The name that will be displayed to recipients on email.
    • Email: The email address of the shared mailbox (e.g., shared@davidson.edu).
    • Password: Your Davidson email password.
    • Description: Your chosen description.
  6. Touch Next to get to the full settings.
  7. On the following screen, confirm that IMAP is selected at the top.
  8. Scroll down. In the Incoming Mail Server section, enter the following values:
    • Host Name: outlook.office365.com
    • User Name: Your personal email address, followed by a forward slash, followed by the name of the shared mailbox. For example, name@davidson.edu/shared
    • Password: Your Davidson email password.
  9. Scroll down. In the Outgoing Mail Server section, enter the following values:
    • Host Name: smtp.office365.com
    • User Name: Your full Davidson email address.
    • Password: Your Davidson email password.
  10. Touch the Next button and wait for the server to verify your settings.
  11. Choose your synchronization choices and touch Save in the upper right corner. You will now find the shared account in your Mail app under Mailboxes.

Outlook iOS App instructions

  1. In the Outlook App, tap on the 3 vertical lines in the top right corner, then select the “Settings” icon (looks like a cog-wheel) a the bottom.
  2. On the Settings screen, choose “Add Account“, then choose “Add Email Account“. Enter the name of the shared account (example: sharedaccount@davidson.edu), then choose Add Account. This will take you to an office 365 login screen asking for a password. Since it is a shared mailbox and you most likely do not have a password, click the back arrow in the top corner. There is a new option on the screen called “Setup Account Manually” choose that option.
  3. On the next screen, scroll down to where it says ADVANCED and select IMAP.
  4. Turn on the switch for and Use Advanced Settings and enter the following information:
    • Email Address:  (enter_the_name_of_the_shared_mailbox)@davidson.edu
    • Display Name: What you want the mailbox to be called
    • Description: You can leave blank
    • IMAP Hostname: outlook.office365.com
    • IMAP Username:  (your_primary_account)@davidson.edu\enter_the_name_of_the_shared_mailbox
    • IMAP Password: YOUR account password
    • SMTP Hostname:  smtp.office365.com:587
    • SMTP Username: (your_primary_account)@davidson.edu
    • Password: YOUR account password
  5. Select Sign In. If all the information you entered is correct, you will now have access to the shared mailbox on your iOS device.

Windows 10 Features

Posted on 2016/04/07 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Features

Wake up on Lan breaks down (WOL)

– Disable fast-startup windows.
[Control panel] – [Hardware] – [Power management] – [Change password on wakeup] > at the bottom.

  • Network Adapter Settings
  • BIOS setting
  • Disabled Fast Startup
  • Telnet and Port Settings

Deployment

https://technet.microsoft.com/itpro/windows/plan/index

ADK Download – ICD (Imaging and config designer).

Microsoft OEM

Bloatware

Removal | Uninstall Howtogeek |

GPO

Download Server / Windows GPO ADMX files

How can I add new Windows 10 admx files to the Group Policy Central Store and then deploy them ?

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askds/2015/08/07/windows-10-group-policy-admx-templates-now-available-for-download/

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48257

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250

Language Pack (LPKsetup)

https://www.microsoft.com/OEM/nl/installation/downloads/Pages/Windows-10-v1511-Language-Interface-Packs.aspx#fbid=X3uGvcwFYpy

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825699

http://support.hp.com/nl-nl/document/c04935134

Server SBS 2011

Introducing Windows 10 into your SBS 2011 Standard Network

Update to support auto-redirection of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials for Windows 10 client connector

http://windowsserveressentials.com/2015/08/06/windows-server-essentials-2012-r2windows-10/

Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 – Windows 10

Small Business Server 2011 Standard–Windows 10

 

Updated List of OS Version Queries for WMI Filters

Apple OS X howtos

Posted on 2016/03/14 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Links

OS X Yosemite: Set up iCloud on your Mac

iCloud Set Up & Sign in

 

 

Linux | OpenMediaVault.org

Posted on 2014/11/15 by arno Posted in Linux

Open Media Vault

OpenMediaVault.org (OMV) | WikiPedia | Download | Wiki | Forum | Virtualbox |

Plugins | Install OMV-extras plugin | Latest Updates |
Plugins Github | Developers |

OMV-extras.org | how-to install


Plugins

Deluge | Install howto | GitHub | Manual install
PXE-Boot | Forum |
Mumble | OMV-Extras |

Pooling | aufs | hddfs | userpost | userpost aufs vs hddfs |

Spotweb | Manual setup | api-call configuration


Howto / Documentation

Links to Guides and Tutorials | Problems?! | Step by step installation

Privileges and permissions explained under OMV
Upload Logfile via WebGUI on OpenMediaVault 1.x for Support
Increase Software RAID5 write speed


Custom tweaks

spotweb api calls | edit /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/openmediavault-nginx | location /spotweb { if ($uri !~ “api/”){ rewrite api/?$ /spotweb/index.php?page=newznabapi last; } }
change the foldername spotweb to the correct location (if there is no folder use / )

sabnzbd does not start in https mode | in file /etc/init.d/sabnzbd , comment-out # OPTIONS=”$OPTIONS –server $SERVER”


PXE

PXE linux | Sanitarium.net

configurations | PXEubuntu

forum | OMV | Openelec.PXE / NFS |

KB | Search for PXE |

Apps | Acronis | WinPE / Synology


Help

Web-console stuck in “The web server software is running but no content has been added, yet.”

Service apache2 stop
update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
service nginx restart


Projects

My-single-drive-silent-NAS-HP-T5740-thin-client-build

Lenovo Notbook Features

Posted on 2014/09/10 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Download | Rescue and Recovery W7

 

Keyboard Fn | Forum | Driver |

Apple OS X Features

Posted on 2014/08/08 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

 

Apple OS X

10.10.x Yosimite

–

10.9.x Mountain Lion

Webwereld: Nieuwe commandline-programma’s in Mountain Lion

Software

Apple Software Volume Licensing
Apple OS X keyboard shortcuts and characters
KeyQue, snel én eenvoudig weergeven van globale en programma snelkoppelingen.
TimeMachineEditor, als je een back-up systeem TimeCapsule in je netwerk hebt zitten dan kan je hiermee de interval tijd aanpassen.
Flux, pas de kleur temperatuur aan van het scherm, aan de hand van de tijd van de dag. Wat het beeld rustiger maakt.
Carbon copy cloner, Om OS X systeem te klonen naar een andere harddisk.
MacTracker, Apple apparaten specificaties, alles in één programma.

OS X

TimeMachineEditor, RHEL/CentOS/SLS6 software for Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion that lets you change the default one-hour backup interval of Time Machine.
Lion Diskmaker, Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and OS X 10.8 to burn a DVD or build a bootable drive.
Reminders, Making the Most of Reminders and Notes in OS X Mountain Lion
File Server, Howto CentOS 6 As a replacement osx file-server

Linux

TimeMachine, “emulate” with “netatalk” service.
FileServer, http://joserocks.com/2012/10/how-to-set-up-centos-6-as-a-replacement-os-x-file-server/
AirPrintServer, (linux) Link 1, Link 2

Windows

Lifehacker review | WizMouse makes your mouse wheel work on the window under the mouse.

MagicMouse utility
Apple software for windows: iCloud | iTunes | Quicktime | Safari | Airport utility | Bonjour Print services , help |

Tips – Information

Where The Files Belong Now

Well known TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products

iTunes

iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder

Tweaks – Hints

http://hints.macworld.com

Disable dashboard (source)

$ defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean Yes
$ killall Dock

Parallels – turn of Ads (source)

$ defaults write com.parallels.Parallels\ Desktop ProductPromo.ForcePromoOff -bool YES

Where does $LANG variable gets set in Mac OS X? (http://apple.stackexchange.com)

[ Terminal > Preferences > Settings > [profile] > Advanced ] Set locale environment variables on startup
Then the locale will default to “C” with no language specified, and most programs will then default to English.

Hide any program’s dock icon (source)

sudo chmod 464 /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/Info.plist
edit or add KEY "NSUIElement" and change STRING variable to "1".
<key>NSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

How to disable Adobe PDF reader plug-in in Safari (source)

Remove ‘AdobePDFviewer*.plugin’ from ‘/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/’

 

Linux | FreeNAS

Posted on 2014/07/13 by arno Posted in Linux, Services

FreeNAS.org | download

Documentation | Videos | Volume Management

 

 

 

Links – Drivers / Utilities

Posted on 2014/04/13 by arno Posted in Links

Intel Hardware utilities

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-033018.htm

Software Apple macOS X Features

Posted on 2014/03/06 by arno Posted in Mac OSX, Software

http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/where-files.html

OS X Utilities
MacTracker | MacUpdate Desktop | TunnelBlik |

| SpectacleApp | Rectangle | KeyQue | iStatMenus | LineIn | AutoDMG | AutoDMG-GitHUB | F-Lux | AirFoil | The Unarchiver |

Fun | NoisyTyper |

Bartender 4 | SwiftBar |

Time Machine | TimeMachineEditor |

IOS Devices iPod iPhone iPad | iFunBox | TinyUmbrella |

Tweaks

Show/Hide Application icon in Dock | Edit Info.plist in Application-contense, add after <dict> “<key>LSUIElement</key> <true/>”.

Create Bootable macOS 10.12.1 Sierra ISO

source: InsanelyMac

  • hdiutil attach /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_app
  • hdiutil create -o /tmp/Sierra.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
  • hdiutil attach /tmp/Sierra.cdr.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/install_build
  • asr restore -source /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/install_build -noprompt -noverify -erase
  • rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/Packages
  • cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/
  • cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/BaseSystem.chunklist
  • cp -rp /Volumes/install_app/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/BaseSystem.dmg
  • hdiutil detach /Volumes/install_app
  • hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/
  • hdiutil convert /tmp/Sierra.cdr.dmg -format UDTO -o /tmp/Sierra.iso
  • mv /tmp/Sierra.iso.cdr ~/Desktop/Sierra.iso

Hardware bump

Posted on 2013/11/28 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

X-|

Cisco SRW2016 – reset password cisco switches via serial console port

1. Connect to the console port using terminal emulation parameters (typically 38400, 8, 0, 1, None)
2. Reboot switch (Remove power)
3. Hold down Ctrl U while rebooting
–  Menu will be displayed
4. Select>  [D] Delete file
5. Type startup-config (be sure that this is the ONLY file that you delete – if you delete other files, you will have to reload the firmware)
6. Now, you have erased the configuration file and you should be able to reboot and login with the default username and password.

Software Malware

Posted on 2013/11/21 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

CryptoLocker

forums: Bleepingcomputer
software: shadowexplorer

How to block this infection from running on other computers on your computer.

You can use Software Restriction Policies to block executables from running when they are located in the %AppData% folder, or any other folder, which this thing launches from. See these articles from MS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310791 | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786941(v=ws.10).aspx
This can also be setup in group policy
File paths of the infection are:

C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\{213D7F33-4942-1C20-3D56=8-1A0B31CDFFF3}.exe (Vista/7/8)
C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\{213D7F33-4942-1C20-3D56=8-1A0B31CDFFF3}.exe

So the path rule you want to setup is:

Path: %AppData%\*.exe
Security Level: Disallowed
Description: Don’t allow executables from AppData.

With the bundling of Zbot with Cryptolocker, it is now also recommend that you create a rule to block executables running from a subfolder of %AppData%. This can be done with this path rule:

Path: %AppData%\*\*.exe
Security Level: Disallowed
Description: Don’t allow executables from immediate subfolders of AppData.

Software Google Chrome

Posted on 2013/11/03 by arno Posted in Software

Chrome hidden configuration pages

source: www.blogsdna.com/828/seven-hidden-configuration-pages-of-google-chrome-browser.htm

about:flags
about:network
about:stats
about:cache
about:histograms
about:plugins
about:dns
about:version
about:memory
about:crash

Script – Wake.cmd

Posted on 2013/10/18 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

@ECHO OFF
SET TARGET=%1
SET PINGSETTINGS=-n 20
SET BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
SET WAKECMD=D:\Support\bin\mc-wol.exe

IF "%1"=="" SET TARGET=HLP
GOTO %TARGET%
GOTO ENDEXIT

:username1
:WKS2013a
SET HWMAC=14:ff:00:00:dd:ea
GOTO WAKECMD

:username2
:WKS2013b
SET HWMAC=14:ff:00:00:dd:29
GOTO WAKECMD

:username3
:WKS2013c
SET HWMAC=00:ff:00:00:dd:0b
GOTO WAKECMD

:temp
:MG20
SET HWMAC=
GOTO WAKECMD

:WAKECMD
%WAKECMD% %HWMAC% /p %HWMAC% /a %BROADCAST%
GOTO ENDD

:HLP
ECHO "Usage: %0 [USERNAME1|USERNAME2|USERNAME3]"
ECHO "Usage: %0 [WKS2013a|WKS2013b|WKS2013c]"

:ENDD
PING PINGSETTINGS %TARGET%
:ENDEXIT

Software Deployment

Posted on 2013/10/03 by arno Posted in Software

Adobe | Install | downloads | toolkit

Java | Install | download | toolkit | (web security level default is [high])

<jre>.exe /s STATIC=0 WEB_JAVA=1 WEB_JAVA_SECURITY_LEVEL=H /L %TEMP%\setup-java.log

VMware OS X

Posted on 2013/08/03 by arno Posted in Uncategorized

Install OS X on VMware workstation.

Howto install your own OSX in VMware, goto mahmood1(.)com and download the PDF.
There is a guide with screenshots how to install.

Install VMware tools located in the VMware workstation program files folder, look for darwin.iso and mount it.

Manualy install VMsvga2 driver located here

OS X Project pages

Panorama photo stiching – http://hugin.sourceforge.net

Convert dmg2iso – http://dmg2iso.sourceforge.net

VMware  vga driver for OS X – http://vmsvga2.sourceforge.net

Create apps from websites – Fluidadd | MacLife

Custom tweaks

Disable Dashboard – defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES && killall Dock

Create ISO

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/install-mac-os-x-el-capitan-1011-vmware-esxi-60-apple-abhinav-biswas

Hardware – Cisco SPA 50x

Posted on 2013/07/11 by arno Posted in Hardware

Cisco SPA 50x

Cisco.com Small_business Voice_conferencing SPA500

Box contense

cisco-spa50x-boxcontent

Links

Cisco-spa504g-provisioning

FAQ

Q: Instelllingen voor Xs4all sip / Fritz.box
A: Cisco spa504g – sip naar xs4all werkt, configuratie in advanced aangepast:
SIP Settings
SIP poort: 5060
SIP Proxy-Require: sip.xs4all.nl
Proxy and Registration
Proxy: sip.xs4all.nl
Subscriber Information
User ID: 08787*****
Password: ********

Q: Touch tone DTMF voor IVR, (als je tijdens een automatische beantwoorder moet kiezen: 1,2 of 3 voor …. )
A: Onder elke Extentie » Audio Configuration » DTMF Tx Method [InBand]

Q: Fritz.box tijdens het uitbellen tot men opneemt geeft geen geluid van overgaan
A: Per extentie g.722 uitschakelen.

Q: Fritz.box excenties **621 bellen werkt niet.
A: Voeg “**xxx” toe aan je dialplan source whirlpool.net.au

Q: Automatisch zomer en winter tijd aanpassen
–   syntax is start=<mm>/<dd>/<day>[/HH:[mm[:ss]]];end=<mm>/<dd>/<day>[/HH:[mm[:ss]]];save=[/[+|-]HH:[mm[:ss]]]
A: Regional > Miscellaneous – Daylight Saving Time Rule:
CET (Last Sunday in October to last Sunday in March):
Time Zone: GMT+01:00
Daylight Saving Time Rule: start=3/-1/7/02:0:0;end=10/-1/7/02:0:0;save=1

Q: How to backup settings for SPA5x5 phones via Browser?
A: Backup. You can extract the config by going to http://<phone_ip_addr>/admin/spacfg.xml and saving that to a file.

Q: How to restore settings for SPA5x5 phones via Browser?
A: To push the config back to the phone (you need a tftp server or other service to host the config. Personally, I use solarwinds free tftp server):
Through the web ui: http://<phone_ip_addr>/admin/resync?tftp://<tftp_server_ip>/<path_to_config>/config.txt
You can use the phone itself:  Phone setup button -> profile rule -> resync -> enter path to tftp server here
For different phones, you’ll need to change the device mac address, or you can use $MA instead. You shouldn’t need to make any modifications for the same phone.
This is the full provisioning guide: Cisco.com – Small_Business_IP_Telephony_Provisioning_Guide.pdf

Settings:

Ext 1
Subscription Expires, Register Expires, Proxy Fallback Intvl, : 60
NAT Keep Alive Enable:
SIP Transport: TCP
G722 Enable: No
DTMF Tx Method: InBand

Regional
Daylight saving time rule: start=3/-1/7/02:0:0;end=10/-1/7/02:0:0;save=1
TimeZone: GMT+1

User
Time Format: 24hr
Date format: day/month

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