Dan Yedinak is founder and owner of ECLAT Tech. These days Dan finds himself focusing primarily in three areas. Small Business Consulting is his area of professional expertise. Whether it is managing a technology project, like site to site VPNs, router and firewall configuration and management, site wide wireless, servers, or websites and internet marketing, or installing and managing the systems of a small business, you can count on Dan to both get the job done, and work with you to document the work so that YOU have control over your Technology, whenever you need it. Dan also devotes a whole lot of time to Autism and to Gender and Socioeconomic Equity.
Dan Yedinak
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Mar 22
Protect Redirects from WordPress overwiting .htaccess using Apache site conf file
I recently ran into a problem that had two root causes : I had grown lazy about backing up my .htaccess file (relying instead on a WordPress backup plugin while forgetting that it doesn’t touch this file). A WordPress Update to 6.4.3 (the specific version may not be important). While I don’t do a lot …
Oct 20
PowerShell Inconsistency Frustrations
This will be updated over time as a location to note the various inconsistencies present in Windows PowerShell Remove-ADComputer the -Confirm switch is not a space $false but rather a :$false Remove-ADComputer -Identity “computername” -Confirm:$false
Nov 14
Google Cloud SSH Permission Denied Public Key
I recently ran into an issue with a Debian VM instance that had been upgraded from Stretch to Buster. Prior to the upgrade, the ssh via gcloud os login worked just fine. After the upgrade, however, every attempt resulted in a permission denied error. Now, there are a lot of posts and threads about this …
Oct 09
Suspicions arise during search for Email to PDF solution
The problem presented First, a little background on the problem itself. The task to convert a large number of emails to PDF as part of a legal discovery. Converting individual emails to PDF is not a big deal – open, print to PDF. That’s pretty much a standard feature on most desktop operating systems today. …
Oct 06
Hot Swap Raid 10 Drive with no Reboot on Dell Poweredge R530 with PERC H730P
Dell’s documentation on the R530 and the PERC H730P leaves a lot to be desired, especially when it comes to the contradictory nature of the information on hand. This Dell community post from 2019 shows just how confusing it can be as a result. In it, the OP laments that they are “Still in disbelief, …
Sep 13
Quickbooks Printing error and the Windows Print Spooler
When opening QuickBooks you might receive an error about a missing component that affects PDFs. After acknowledging the error, you find you can’t set up printers or print anything at all, in fact. The error reads as follows : QuickBooks detected that a component required to create PDF files is missing. This may cause issues …
Mar 22
A Brief Apple iPhone and iPad Exchange Settings How to
Periodic problems synchronizing data between iPhones and iPads and Exchange servers, especially calendars make it necessary to stop synchronizing the calendar, which forces the calendar on the phone to be deleted, and then renew synchronization, which forces a refresh of all the data from the server. Note that this will cause any local changes made …
Apr 05
Remove Microsoft OneDrive from Windows 10
As system administrators, we are commonly called upon to simplify the experience for our users. OneDrive is definitely a complication for everyone who doesn’t use it, or want it. It’s one of the first questions many Windows 10 users ask me about. When I first started running into the issue, I would just fix it …
Mar 24
DoubleAgent Vulnerability poses a risk to Security Software – Steps You Can Take
DoubleAgent is a vulnerability in the Microsoft code checking software that allows an attacker to replace that code checker with an alternative version. Once the alternate version is in place and the software using it checks for changes to its code based on the results, it reacts accordingly. This, in turn, allows an attacker to replace …
Dec 10
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 14 – Nightmare
the problems I encountered during this installation, which was a jump from Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 (which had completed without a hitch) on a Hyper-V Guest on Windows Server 2012, could have been entirely addressed by better error handling when Microsoft prepped the CU – which would have saved my customer – and a lot of other people’s, too – a ton of money, and me a few hours of sleep.