How to resize a partition on a hard drive Using GParted

When using GParted to resize a partition on a hard drive you have cloned you may notice an exclamation mark on the drive.

When you attempt to apply the resize it will most likely fail, and you may receive an error message, similar to the one below, stating that there are “bad sectors” on the disk.

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Configure Office 365 with SMTP Server Settings

If you want to use a scan-to-email device or other application that requires an SMTP gateway, Office 365 can be used.

In our tests, a live account  be configured for the device, otherwise you have to use a user’s credentials to send mail, which may not be desirable.

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How to Remake DAHDI from source

You need to retrieve the correct kernel-devel for the kernel of linux you are running, and remake DAHDI from source

SSH onto the machine and run:
uname -r
Note the kernel version. then, google for kernel-devel (kernel version)
find a suitable download source (i.e. from rpm.pbone.net)

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Windows 10 – Change PPTP ipv4 Settings

In my RTM copy of Windows 10 Pro, when I try to edit the IPv4 settings of a VPN connection, nothing happened when I clicked ‘Properties’.

Thankfully, there is a solution to the issue – you can edit the file rasphone.pbk in a text editor like notepad.exe and make the necessary changes in this file.

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Adding phpShield to Linux Hosting

SSH into the server
Run:
​​/usr/local/bin/php-config --extension-dir
The result shows the PHP extension directory
/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20100525
​
​Upload the latest version of ixed.5.4.lin to this directory using WinSCP or similar file transfer tool
Find the location of php.ini​
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Manually set FreePBX timezone

Check here for the correct timezone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones​

SSH into the server

Run the following, with the relevant TZ database timezone. In this example, Europe/London

​ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
Then, edit /ect/sysconfig/clock
nano /etc/sysconfig/clock

Change the line to the correct TZ timezone:

ZONE="Europe/London"

Save the file

Run to check all is now correct:
date

Reboot the server

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Join a wireless network before login

Export the existing wifi setup

​netsh wlan export profile %SSIDName% folder=c:\temp
XML files of the existing connections will be exported to c:\temp. Find the one you want all users to access. You need to modify the to false and enter the wireless key.

You will end up with something like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<WLANProfile xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/networking/WLAN/profile/v1">
<name>Best Network</name>
<SSIDConfig>
<SSID>
<hex>42657374204E6574776F726B</hex>
<name>Best Network</name>
</SSID>
</SSIDConfig>
<connectionType>ESS</connectionType>
<connectionMode>auto</connectionMode>
<MSM>
<security>
<authEncryption>
<authentication>WPA2PSK</authentication>

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