The official information page about the long-standing Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability:

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1350

By default, the FortiClient will start up automatically when starting macOS. This may not always be desirable but fortunately, auto-start can be disabled quite easily.

The FortiClient launch agent is located at /Library/LaunchAgents/com.fortinet.forticlient.fct_launcher.plist. Use any text editor to open and edit this file, but you probably will need to do this using Terminal and using sudo to launch a text-based text editor (e.g. vi or nano).

With the file open, look for these lines:

<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>

Change true to false and save the file. Note that updates to the FortiClient may overwrite the change.

When you're using your Synology exclusively as a iSCSI target, and have assigned the complete disk space to your LUN's, you will get notifications about the volume being (almost) completely full. Obviously, in this case, you may not want to receive these notifications. Luckily, you can turn these off:

1. Log on to your DSM.
2. Navigate to Control Panel → Notification → Advanced tab. In the list, expand Internal storage.
3. Uncheck the notifications for Volume in low capacity and Volume in extremely low capacity. Click Apply to save the changes.

Note that this will only disable the notifications (e-mail, SMS, etc.). The widget and WebUI will still show the alerts.

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If the webclient is letting you down, you can also use PowerCLI to expand datastores.

First, as usual, expand the volume on the storage level. Then, fire up PowerCLI, log on to the vCenter/host and run the following script, replacing the name of the datastore you wish to expand:

$name = 'Datastore1'
$datastore = Get-Datastore $name
$esxi = Get-View -Id ($Datastore.ExtensionData.Host | Select -Last 1 | Select -ExpandProperty Key) 
$datastoreSystem = Get-View -Id $esxi.ConfigManager.DatastoreSystem
$expandOptions = $datastoreSystem.QueryVmfsDatastoreExpandOptions($datastore.ExtensionData.MoRef)
$datastoreSystem.ExpandVmfsDatastore($datastore.ExtensionData.MoRef,$expandOptions.spec)

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The certificate for HiveManager NG has expired on October 23, 2019. As a result, Dell N Series switches running an older firmware or an older version of the HiveAgent, can no longer connect or be connected to HiveManager NG after this date.

The solution is to either update the switch firmware to at least 6.6.0.13, or manually update the HiveAgent to 1.1.29.

More information: https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/sln319098/dell-emc-networking-hivemanager-site-cloud-aerohive-com-certificate-expiration-how-to-manually-upgrade-hiveagent-on-dell-n-series-switches?lang=en&ref=topsolutions

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