# systemctl stop pihole-FTL

# rm /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.db*

# systemctl start pihole-FTL

Message: “Your version of Windows has reached the end of service.” 

In order to Force Windows 11 24H2 Feature Update, follow the instructions below:

1. Open the Local Group Policy via the start menu, or run “gpedit.msc”.
2. Expand “Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update -> Manage updates offered from Windows Update”
3. Open “Select the target Feature Update version”
4. Set option to “Enabled”
5. Set the first field (Which Windows product version would you like to receive feature updates for), to “Windows 11”
6. Set the second field “Target Version for Feature Updates” to “24H2”.
7. Click Apply, click Ok, and then exit Group Policy Editor.
8. Run “gpupdate /force”, or reboot, to force the system to see the settings.
9. Check Windows Update for new updates, you should now see the update available.

If gpedit is not installed:

1. Use notepad to create a text file with the following and save to Desktop as gpedit-install.bat.
   • @echo off pushd "%~dp0"
   • dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum >gpedit-install.txt
   • dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum >>gpedit-install.txt
   • for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . gpedit-install.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"
   • pause
2. Right click gpedit-install.bat on desktop and click “Runs as administrator” to install gpedit.
3. In search field type gpedit.msc and enter to run.

Synology VPN Server

Forward ports 500, 1701, 4500 to server

VPN Server: Enable L2TP/IPSec, confirm Authentication is MS-CHAP v2, and set pre-shared key, enable user permissions for L2TP

IPad/IPhone VPN Client: L2TP w/ secret

Windows VPN Client: L2TP/IPSec with pre-shared key

Windows VPN Adapter Options:

Set VPN adapter Security Tab to Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol with IPSec (L2TP/IPSec)

Set Requires encryption (disconnect if server declines)

Set “Allow these protocols” and enable Microsoft CHAP Version 2 (MS-CHAP v2)

Some work is being done on on the scripts that keep the site up and running. There has been some outages while I work the kinks out. All should be back to the regularly scheduled programming now. Thanks for your dedication to the services.

yum (dnf) list updates

Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Unable to read consumer identity

This system is not registered with an entitlement server. You can use subscription-manager to register.

Fix:

1. vi /etc/dnf/plugins/subscription-manager.conf

Change enabled to 0

[main]
enabled=0

Option 2.

Register system with a Satellite server.