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Set Up RDNS in Azure for a public IP

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When setting up an Azure VM that will have mail functions, you may need to set up a rDNS record. The Azure portal at this time does not have that capability but you can set this up in with the Azure CLI or PowerShell. Guide for creating Reverse DNS records: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dns/dns-reverse-dns-for-azure-services https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest

Find Plesk users and Remove them

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Plesk uses system users to handle logins. As such removing the user effectively removes their access to the entire server. If you want to delete the user without deleting any of their files, type this command as root: If you want to delete the user’s home directory along with the user account itself, type this … Read more

Azure/AWS Mail blocked on Port 25

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This issue revolves around Azure and AWS outbound SMTP from their virtual machines / EC2 instances. AZURE Azure: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mast/2017/11/15/enhanced-azure-security-for-sending-emails-november-2017-update/ For Pay-As-You-Go or Microsoft Partner Network subscriptions created after November 15, 2017, there will be technical restrictions blocking e-mail sent directly from VMs in these subscriptions. Customers that need the ability to send e-mail from Azure … Read more

cPanel Update Error – Failed to download updatenow.static from server: The system cannot update the /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config file

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cPanel presents and error on update: ***** FATAL: Failed to download updatenow.static from server: The system cannot update the /var/cpanel/sysinfo.config file. at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/GenSysInfo.pm line 113. This issue stems from an issue with the rpm database. Run the following: rpm –rebuilddb /scripts/upcp –force

Install Zabbix Agent on Windows 2016 Avoid Windows Agent – Error 1053

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How to Install Zabbix Agent on Windows 2016 and avoid the: Windows error service could not be started. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. Download – https://www.zabbix.com/download_agents If you have the agent service installed incorrectly now, you can remove it by running “zabbix_agentd.exe –uninstall”. cd … Read more

Azure PowerShell Script Sample – Create a Linux VM

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This script creates an Azure Virtual Machine with an Ubuntu operating system. After running the script, you can access the virtual machine over SSH. If needed, install the Azure PowerShell module using the instructions found in the Azure PowerShell guide, and then run Login-AzureRmAccount to create a connection with Azure. Also, you need to have … Read more