Rest Admin account password of CUCM 7.1

Recently I came across a situation where i had to reset Admin password of CUCM as the CUCM team forgot the password, below are the steps
1. Console into CUCM server
2. Use username 'pwrecovery', password 'pwreset'.

3. Remove a disc into the CD/DVD driven and press any key

4. Insert a CD into the drive and press any key

5. Enter ‘a’ for resetting Admin account password

6. Enter a password for account "admin" and enter the password second time for confirmation.

Update SQL Express 2012 with service pack on Lync 2013 server

I have recently come across a situation where I had to upgrade Lync server to Skype for business 2015 and as part of preparing I had to update SQL 2012 express with service pack. Below are the steps for the same.

1. Before starting the update you have to make sure the service is down on the server.
Go to ‘Lync server Management Shell’ and run ‘Stop-Cswindowsservice’

2. Change the location to the install souce location and run caommand ‘.\SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe /ACTION=Patch /allinstances /IAcceptSQLServerLicenseTerms’

3. You can see extract is going on...

4. Check ‘I accept the licence terms.’ And click on next to continue.

5. Make sure that all instaces are selected and click on next

6. Click on next to continue

7. Make sure you can see all “success” and click on close

8. Start Lync services and make sure that everything works

How to enable missing hibernate option in windows 7

 

Issue

Recently I have experienced that ‘Hibernate’ option missing issue on my laptop. I didnt know its an easy task to bring it back  

Solution

1. Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
2. In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
3. When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
4. At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate on, and then press Enter.
   
5. Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.
6. Now you should see the option

Cannot connect to Blogger by using Windows Live Writer

I have recently experienced an issue when trying to post a Blog from Windows Live Writer to my blog on Blogger. It didn’t allow me to authenticate, I was keep getting below message,

Solution:-

Done research and found that Google changed their security policy and it blocks access to the blogger from all external tool like live writer or any other tool which can be used to write blog posts. Google is considering all these tools as “less secure”

Please follow below steps to solve this issue,

1. Open https://www.google.com/settings/security from your browser and authenticate with your account.

2. Go to the section Account permissions and click on Settings against "Access for less secure apps"
 

3. Select “Turn on”.

  

4. Now try from the live writer it should work