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Cisco ASA 5505 from Factory Default to Static Address and defined inside subnet

I have been playing with an ASA 5505 lately. I wanted the ability to start fresh when I could not figure things out. I came up with the following commands to cut and paste into the console, allowing me to “Start over”.

First I reset to factory default and set the internal subnet range

configure factory-default 192.168.123.1 255.255.255.0

You have to hit the space bar a couple of times, then paste in the next sections:

boot system disk0:/asa911-k8.bin
interface Vlan2
 ip address 123.123.123.123 255.255.255.0
route outside 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 38.117.203.126
dhcpd dns 8.8.8.8
dhcpd address 192.168.123.5-192.168.123.132 inside
dhcpd enable inside

ssh scopy enable
ssh 192.168.123.0 255.255.255.0 inside
ssh timeout 60
ssh version 2
console timeout 0
username myusername password 3ncrypt3dp4$$w0rd encrypted privilege 15
no call-home reporting anonymous

!-- Optional - allow pings outbound
policy-map global_policy
  class inspection_default
   inspect icmp
   exit
   exit
!

This code above sets the external IP, enabled DHCP internally, enables ssh and scope, creates a user, and allows pings through.

I hope this might help someone.

Useful PowerShell Get-HotFix commands
I can never remember these, and now that I have posted them, I don’t have to! I will add more as I need them:
```
Get-HotFix | Where-Object {$_.HotFixId -eq "KB2823324"}
Get-HotFix | Sort-Object -Property InstalledOn
```
Import Picture into AD with PowerShell
I know this is everywhere, so this is more a note for myself. How to upload pictures to AD via PowerShell:
```
Import-RecipientDataProperty -Identity username -Picture -FileData ([Byte[]]$(Get-Content -Path .\username.jpeg -Encoding Byte -ReadCount 0))
```
Installing WordPress via shell script(BASH)
We have been using a provisioning script that downloads the latest wordpress zip file, extracts into the right location it and sets up the DB connection. I wanted to take it a step further and eliminate the install.php page. The one that looks like this:

So i sat down to figure out how to “Install WordPress” via shell script. Here is that command:
```
SITENAME="blog"
DOMAINNAME="company.com"
PASSWORD="MySecurePassword"
wp_install_result=$(php -r 'define("WP_SITEURL", "http://'$SITENAME.$DOMAINNAME'");define("WP_INSTALLING", true);require_once("./wp-load.php");require_once("wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php");$response=wp_install("TITLE", admin, "[email protected]", false, null, "'$PASSWORD'");echo $response;')
```
After WordPress is “installed”, we can now activate plugins.
Activating and deactivating WordPress plugins from a shell script (BASH)
I needed to update my WordPress site provisioning script to download, install and activate a WordPress plugin. The download is the easy part (I just use wget). But how do I activate the plugin. This is what I cam up with:
```
result=$(php -r 'require_once("./wp-load.php");require_once("wp-admin/includes/admin.php");activate_plugin("hello.php");')
```
And to be complete, to deactivate:
```
result=$(php -r 'require_once("./wp-load.php");require_once("wp-admin/includes/admin.php");deactivate_plugins("hello.php");')
```

A simple javascript/AJAX function to post a SOAP request to CRM 2011

This is a simple function that I use to post a SOAP envelope to CRM 2011. Just pass the URL and the xml (you can create that with this function) and you should be good to go

    function soapToCRM(URL, data) {
        var returnValue
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            contentType: "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
            datatype: "xml",
            async: false,
            url: URL,
            data: data,
            beforeSend: function (XMLHttpRequest) {
                XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml, text/xml, */*");
                XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
                XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services/IOrganizationService/Execute");
            },
            success: function (data, textStatus, XmlHttpRequest) {
                //alert("success");
                var NewCRMRecordCreated = data["d"];
                returnValue = true
            },
            error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                alert("failure " + errorThrown);
                returnValue = false;
            }
        });
        return returnValue;
    }

Using AJAX and SOAP to create a CRM 2011 activity

I have posted a bunch of PowerShell scripts to interact with CRM 2011, now I am going to put up similar javascript versions. I feel that there is a lot of javascript content out there for CRM 2011, but most of it is javascript inside the actual CRM interface. I don’t see a lot of content about using javascript from a different webpage/site with ajax, so I thought I would post some of the code I put together.

This is a function that I put together to build a SOAP envelope for creating an activity in CRM 2011. Credit for the template goes to Jamie Miley and this post. I took his template a little further and created a function for either email,Phone call or appointment. In addition this function allows for multiple contacts in an phone call’s to and multiple required contacts in a meeting.

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