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You might see either or both of these errors in your Event Viewer: Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WinRMEvent ID: 10149 Level: Warning Keywords: Classic Description: The WinRM service is not listening for WS-Management requests.User Action If you did not intentionally stop the service, use the following command to see Read more…
A few years ago we wrote a very popular article on how to solve the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH when RDP’ing to a PC or Server. The nut of it is to try CTL+ALT+END to send a remotes CTL+ALT+DEL among other tricks. In this article we explain how to restart Read more…
What Is The Computer Equivalent of Authenticated Users? When working in Microsoft Active Directory using tools like Group Policy Editor, you may run into a situation in which you need to use an ALL COMPUTERS group. Fear not, the AD group of all computers is called DOMAIN COMPUTERS. This account Read more…
This is a very tricky error to understand: Windows Event ID: 16979 Message: The domain is incorrectly configured with a MinimumPasswordLength setting that is greater than 14. NOTE: until this is corrected, the domain will enforce a smaller MinimumPasswordLength setting of 14. Currently configured MinimumPasswordLength value: 15 For more information Read more…
About a decade ago we wrote an article explaining the differences between in an IP printer port and it WSD port monitor. However we have received lots of requests from people asking how to get the IP address of a WSD port. So we’ll answer the question directly in just Read more…
In the old-days, there were backups and while people were confused about the differences between a full backup and an incremental backup, they understood the general concept. A backup is a copy of your files or an entire server. Then in the mid-2000’s we started hearing about this crazy thing Read more…
If you are an IT administrator there will come a time when you find RDP problems and the first step to resolving them is to kill all the session. But how? Microsoft released a new utility named QUSER in Windows 7 and it applies to their operating systems made since Read more…
Most companies want to keep track of who is deleting files on their servers and while the process is not difficult, it is far from obvious. We demonstrate how to setup file and folder auditing as well as the creation of the Group Policy Object and then finish showing that Read more…
Even if you are a computer tech, new computer terminology can be confusing. In previous articles we have explained On-Prem, Virtual Machines and most recently Containers, but this article will explain them in non-technical terms. This is the second in our two part plain english series on the Evolution of Read more…
In today’s high tech world we are all inundated with acronyms but in the new world of cloud technologies so many of the acronyms sound the same. We have covered PaaS, IaaS, SaaS in several other articles in the past but this one is designed for non-techs. This is part Read more…
In this article we explain what defrag is and why it is generally a bad idea to run it on an SSD. But that is a very simple answer to a much more nuanced truth that most websites and forums have wrong. Keep skimming through this article if you want Read more…
Most companies are worried about data exfiltration which is a fancy CTO / CISO way of saying data leaving your company. It used to be that most security and IT staff spent their days focusing nearly exclusively on hacks coming from outside the company, but today we see more and Read more…
If you use Trend Micro’s Worry Free Business Security (WFBS) antivirus and you added exceptions to a policy, you may want to verify those updates have been received and applied on destination machines. Initially I looked for registry entries and ini config files before I looked at the desktop client. Read more…
If you are new to licensing Microsoft products you are no doubt overwhelmed by the similarity of names Microsoft uses for its cloud products. In someway all of these relate to what the industry calls VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and we have creates a free 30 minute “Zero to Read more…
If you want to understand Virtual Desktop Environments or VDI, then you are best to start playing with them. Microsoft has a good VDI solution named Azure Virtual Desktops and Amazon does too. In this video we explain everything you need to know to get started with Amazon Workspaces. We assume Read more…
We explain and demonstrate how Folder Redirection from Windows 10 / 11 to Windows Server 2022 works and doesn’t work! We assume you are a newbie and know very little about Windows Server or even Windows 10. We take you through the process step by step. To make this Windows Read more…