Setting VSS drive From a command prompt or PowerShell run: vssadmin list shadowstorage To see which drives are configured for VSS Then run: vssadmin add shadowstorage /for=D: /on=V:/maxsize=150GB To set the V-drive as VSS drive for the D-drive and have it use a maximum of 150GB, you can also use /maxsize=50% The command […]
show ethernet-switching table brief restart web-management start a cli sessioncliselect the active memberrequest session member 0 (or 1)change to the packages dircd /packages/db/show all files/foldersls -lremove all files/folders containing the version of the old firmwarerm -r -v “everything containing old firmware version” show system storagecd /DIRNAME/du -cks * | sort -rnfile FILENAME
Simple cheat sheet for Microsoft Exchange: Get user pictures from Exchange: https://webmail.DOMAIN.TLD/ews/exchange.asmx/s/[email protected]&size=HR648x648 Find latest sent or received email: Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “06/16/2017” -Recipients “[email protected]” -EventID DELIVER Get-MessageTrackingLog -ResultSize Unlimited -Start “06/15/2017” -Recipients “[email protected]” -EventID DELIVER To make sure Exchange doesn’t strip the subject, notes and attachments: Get-CalendarProcessing -Identity “RESOURCEMAILBOXNAME” | FL Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity “RESOURCEMAILBOXNAME” […]
By default MySQL keeps a log of all transactions, if you don’t limit this in “my.cnf” it will keep growing and keep creating “mysql-bin.XXXXX” files. To delete these files and potentially free up lots of disk space do the following: If you are using DirectAdmin first find out the admin user account for MySQL: cat /usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf […]
When using a default install of Magento (>=1.9) on DirectAdmin the emails send by Magento can appear to come from [email protected] or from [email protected]. These addresses can appear in the “From”, “Reply-To” or “Return-Path”. Some email clients show this as [email protected] on behalf off [email protected] There is a simple fix for both these issues. Mail from [email protected] For […]
When using Magento it is important to setup a cron job to run all kinds of maintenance and since version 1.9.1 it is also needed to send some transactional emails. With a cron job the following jobs are performed: Catalog price rules Newsletters Generating Google sitemaps Customer Alerts/Notifications (product price change, product back in stock) […]
If you have a server with DirectAdmin and would like to secure individual user websites with SSL, here is how to do it! Make sure the user has it’s own IP. In DirectAdmin as user go to “Advanced Features” and click “SSL Certificates”. Select “Create A Certificate Request” and fill out all fields. Press save […]
When setting up a new shop in Magento the default order number, invoice number, packing number and credit note number is always 100000001. Most people want to change this to some other number so it doesn’t look like they just started out with their website. Unfortunately it is not possible to change this from the […]
Adding swap space First switch to root and enter your password: su Then check that there is no swap space: swapon -s If nothing is returned, there is no swap space in the system. Create the physical file for swap space: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k This will create a 512MB file called “swapfile” in the root of […]
One of the first things to do when installing a new DirectAdmin server should be the installation of CSF (ConfigServer Security & Firewall). According to their own website this is: A Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall, Login/Intrusion Detection and Security application for Linux servers. You can use this software to configure the firewall on your […]
