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Windows Server 2016 — Cumulative Update Fails with 0x800f0922 After Reboot — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 February 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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How to Configure Azure Backup Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Azure Backup Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Azure Backup Agent on Windows Server 2012 R2 The Microsoft Azure Backup Agent (also known as the MARS agent — Microsoft Azure Recovery Services) enables you to back up files, folders, and system state directly from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Vault, without requiring Azure virtual machines or […]

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How to Configure SELinux on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure SELinux on RHEL 7

How to Configure SELinux on RHEL 7 SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a mandatory access control (MAC) system built into the Linux kernel and enabled by default on every RHEL 7 installation. Unlike traditional Unix discretionary access control (DAC), which lets file owners decide who can access their files, SELinux enforces a policy defined by the […]

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How to Set Up DNS Forwarders on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up DNS Forwarders on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up DNS Forwarders on Windows Server 2012 R2 DNS forwarders direct queries for domains that a DNS server cannot resolve locally to another DNS server that may be able to answer them. Configuring forwarders correctly is essential for efficient DNS resolution in enterprise environments, reducing resolution time for external names, enabling split-brain […]

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FreeBSD 12 — cfengine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — cfengine — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 February 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cfengine — arbitrary file overwriting vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2960 Upstream summary: A Debian Security Advisory reports: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña discovered several insecure temporary file uses in cfengine, a tool for […]

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Spring Boot Interview Questions — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Spring Boot Interview Questions

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/spring-boot-interview-questions/ Today we will look into some spring boot interview questions and answers. So far, we have discussed some posts about [Spring Boot](/community/tutorials/spring-boot-tutorial) Framework with some real-time examples. In this post, I'm going to give you brief or one-shot answers to some Spring Boot Interview Questions. They are very useful when we want to […]

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Random Number Generator in Java — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Random Number Generator in Java

URL: https://www.progressiverobot.com/random-number-generator-java/ Today we will look at how to generate a random number in Java. Sometimes we need to generate random numbers in Java programs. For example, a dice game or to generate a random key id for encryption, etc. Random Number Generator in Java !random number generator java There are many ways to generate […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — sa-exim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — sa-exim — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 February 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4520-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19920 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Exim SpamAssassin does not properly handle configuration strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-19920) […]

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How to Set Up Port Knocking for SSH on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Port Knocking for SSH on RHEL 8

Port knocking is a stealthy technique that keeps SSH’s port 22 invisible to network scanners until a client sends a precise sequence of connection attempts to predetermined ports. On RHEL 8, combining knockd with firewalld creates a powerful two-layer defense: the firewall silently drops all traffic on port 22 by default, and only the knock […]

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