Fix the EFI Boot Record on a Lenovo Outlet ThinkPad
I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 laptop from the Lenovo Outlet last week. As part of the setup, I upgraded the BIOS from 1.14 to 1.15. I started …
Sentinel One Missing from Installed Apps
I installed SentinelOne 25.1.3.334 on three Windows computers yesterday. On one of them, it was missing from the list of Installed Apps, even though it appeared in the taskbar and …
A Domain Controller Can Boot into Safe Mode without DSRM
For some reason, maybe because this was the way things were many years ago, I was under the impression that booting a domain controller into safe mode (e.g. to uninstall …
Fix a Broken Camera Config in Surveillance Station
I have an old Hikvision DS-2CD2332-I camera mounted sideways to take in a hallway. It is configured with rotation enabled in the camera’s web interface:
Prey Project Causes Repeated OpenWith Errors on Server 2025
Since upgrading a server to Server 2025, I’ve been getting multiple OpenWith Application errors every day.
QuickBooks Support Scam
One of my clients received a voicemail advising them they were having issues with their QuickBooks “communications link”:
QuickBooks Desktop Scheduled Backup Fails
I spent several hours over the weekend upgrading a client’s QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise software to the latest version 24. The software is hosted on a Server 2022 computer. The upgrade …
Server 2025 Domain Controller Not on Domain
As reported here and here, a Server 2025 domain controller does not properly detect that it is on the domain. The Server 2022 workaround, with registry entries like AlwaysExpectDomainController that …
Move Shadow Storage from One Volume to Another
I have Shadow Copies turned off on a Hyper-V server but VSS is still used for backups and by SentinelOne. On one server, somehow the shadow storage for C: wound …
Microsoft 365: Block User License Requests and Purchases
Microsoft 365 by default allows end users to request new licenses and, currently in 27 cases, to purchase licenses with their own credit cards, sometimes with a trial first. As …