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If you are trying to understand how modern disk storage works, you can get quickly confused by all the acronyms. NAS, SAN, RAID10, RAID 5, iSCSI… get overwhelming. Fortunately, these terms can be easily explained. Based on a number of questions we have recently received, we decided to update two old articles that Read more…
If you are interested in Office365, we at Up & Running would love to talk to you directly. However, you can also: get a free 30 day Office 365 trial account for 25 people HERE. Note that whatever you setup in the trial can EASILY be moved into ‘production’ so Read more…
This frustrating problem took me nearly 3 weeks to work out with the good staff at Microsoft Partner Support. As you can see in the screen shot, Windows 10 1607 (aka Anniversary) does not display SOME SETTINGS ARE MANAGED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION on Windows Update or Windows Update > Advanced Settings. Read more…
Veeam is an excellent product to back up virtual machines but its original incarnation did not readily support backup to external disk or cloud storage. Both of these items have been resolved and today Veeam Cloud Connect is now included with every version of Veeam 9.0 or higher WITHOUT ADDITIONAL Read more…
If you are working on a network you are going to see some IPv6 traffic and it can get quite confusing. A “loopback” is an address that causes the traffic to be sent to the same interface is was sent out on on the localhost. Usage of loopback addresses are particularly Read more…
UPDATE: VALIDATED THIS PROCESS ON WINDOWS 10 1909 – SEPT 18 2020 If you have Windows 10 clients on a WSUS server and you want to confirm that they are receiving patches from that WSUS server and not going directly to Microsoft to update, you used to just read the Read more…
If you have deployed Windows 10 Anniversary 1607 and are using Windows Defender you should be very interested in the new BLOCK ON FIRST SIGHT feature. When a user runs a program that Defender has never seen before, BLOCK ON FIRST SIGHT, sends a metadata about the file to a Microsoft cloud service. Read more…
There are three ways to get Windows 10 into TROUBLSHOOTING / SAFE MODE without logging in: At the login screen click the round power button at the bottom right corner of the screen, press and HOLD the SHIFT key and click RESTART Insert a Windows 10 DVD and boot off of it, Read more…
If your Edge browser has be hijacked or has some other serious problem in Edge in Windows 10 we will show you how to remove and re-add Microsoft Edge which will perform a hard reset on it. This is the only way to perform a full repair on Edge. Edge is hard baked into Read more…
UPDATE: June 2, 2020 – Microsoft has changed the way they manage Cortana so in newer builds of Windows 10 the work is MUCH easier. See THIS article. If, like me, your Windows 10 Cortana is non-responsive (or you just don’t want Cortana) we will show you how to remove Read more…
There are many different parts to a Windows name and we will explain them all here: Product example: Windows 10 Marketing name Edition example: Windows 10 Pro Home, Pro, IoT, Embedded, Enterprise and Education are all options here System Type example: 32bit or 64 Bit how much data can be moved into Read more…
If you have Windows 10 you likely already know that Microsoft is releasing new builds of Windows several times per year and it can get confusing which version you have. You would think that the build number would be shown in SYSTEM, where is shows the version of Windows 10 Read more…
Microsoft combined the old Service Packs and New Windows Versions (95, 2000, XP, 7, 8…) model, into a new process that provides new features in full versions of Windows released several times each year under the Windows 10 banner. Microsoft released “RTM” Windows 10 in July 2015, then build 1511 in November (get the code.. Read more…
This is a train wreck of problem in IE11 that takes 3 seconds to fix. If you go to sites like MSN.COM and find that many of the graphics have not loaded and/or you find that Adobe Flash content will not play the solution may be to disable PROTECTED MODE: Click the Read more…
I was trying to install Pulse Secure Installer Service and received the ever wonderful: THE SPECIFIED ACCOUNT ALREADY EXISTS on both the MSI and EXE versions of their installer on Windows 10. The solution was to download the Microsoft install cleaner which you can do HERE. This tool will work on Windows Read more…