What makes a good computer? How to buy a good computer? Is AMD better than Intel? What is an SSD? Do I need 16GB of RAM? These and many more questions are answered in this video on how to buy a computer: Introduction 0:001 – What is a Computer Form Read more…
It is not uncommon for companies to want to know how much total storage they’re using in their Azure Ten Tenants. It’s not hard to figure out but if you haven’t done it before it certainly isn’t obvious. Here is how you quickly and easily figure out how much disk Read more…
If your company is anything larger than tiny and you are using Microsoft Office 365 or Azure, you will almost certainly run into a situation in which you want to a few user account set to not expire. Perhaps they are service accounts, or they are accounts that contractors rarely Read more…
We recently had a server with Event 8: The flush and hold writes operation on volume \?\Volume{9134713c-0000-0000-0000-100000000000} timed out while waiting for a release writes command. The error message appear repeatedly but intermittently over the last few months. We found the error related to Volume Shadow Copies (Event ID 5 Read more…
Recently a client of ours sent us the following reference to a SharePoint OneDrive download and wanted to know who it was: urn:spo:anon#47fcb268ce8294b04351dda23e2490dc89dc7a8a9dd91d579dd2438d1f1c8be4 Lets break this string of text down into it component parts: So you’ve probably figured out by now that this string is trying to tell you that Read more…
Most people can figure out what status someone in Microsoft Teams just from the color of the dot. Words are not necessary as they follow the universal vehicle stop light color scheme. You don’t need to have a Computer Science degree to figure out that a Green Dot with a Read more…
Service Principal Names (SPN) are user accounts in Active Directory that are usually created automatically by programs you are installing to allow them to have additional rights beyond what most programs do. You can see the Service Principal Names accounts in Active Directory Users and Computers but you can not Read more…
It can get very complex to figure out just who has access to a particular group or folder when the security groups become nested. Having one security group with other security groups inside as members and then each of those groups possibly having even more groups inside them, gets messy Read more…
You may have noticed that when you look at a certificate, that the Certificate Authority shown in the ISSUED BY field is just text and does not point you to the host name of the computer that is acting as your CA. This can be frustrating if you’re trying to Read more…
In this video, we’ll take a deep dive into the WinXVideoAI software and show you how to enhance, resize, and clean up your videos and pictures. Plus, we’ll share some helpful tips and tricks along the way! * Winxvideo AI – Best video/image enhancer & converter: https://bit.ly/42N1qmD * Get a 1-year Read more…
We demonstrate how to remove duplicate entries in Excel. Specifically, this Excel tips and tricks tutorial shows you how to use the consolidate function to count how many times an entry exists. Then we show you how to remove duplicates and count how many times an entry exists using the Read more…
So if you are asking yourself, does Backup Exec support Server 2008 R2, the answer is no… but you can make it work! If you have Windows Server 2008 R2 (or Server 2012 R2 in the near future) servers and are using Backup Exec software, you may have broken your Read more…
UPDATED: March 7 2024 If you are using Backup Exec you are aware that there is a trust relationship that is required between the backup exec and any clients computers that it is backing up. That trust is established through certificates which are NOT managed by Windows Certificate Manager (certlm.mmc). Read more…
As you likely already know Internet Explorer is completely end of life and has been replaced with Microsoft Edge so when you try to use Internet Explorer it often redirects you to download the Chrome based Microsoft Edge browser. If you are trying to download Microsoft Edge using Internet Explorer, Read more…
If you have tried to uninstall an old version of Semantic Endoint Protection (SEP) and found that it just won’t die there are two ready solutions: 1: Free Symantec Endpoint Protection Removal Tool Symantec, well now Broadcom, has made available a free utility to uninstall old versions and damaged versions Read more…
If you are an administrator of Windows computers there will be a time when you need to shut down and or reboot a computer from another computer. Our case we just had a server that wouldn’t let us log in even after we remotely restarted services and remotely killed other Read more…