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IT Administration December 24, 2020

OpenLiteSpeed for WordPress on Azure Pre-Configured with Extra User

OpenLiteSpeed looks like a nice WordPress environment and I’ve been working on deploying the image found in the Azure marketplace. However I discovered that the image comes pre-configured with a …

IT Administration December 23, 2020

Leaving SiteGround after 17 Days

I was excited to get Black Friday deals on two SiteGround accounts so I could finally get away from the hassles of managing my own Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) …

IT Administration December 23, 2020

QuickBooks Desktop Forces Upgrade Days Before Year End

Today, a customer could not get in to QuickBooks Desktop 2019 because it requires her to apply an upgrade first.

IT Administration / Tips and Tricks November 26, 2020

Outlook 2016 Repeatedly Prompts for Gmail Password

Lately, Outlook 2016 has been prompting me to log in to Google Workspace (G Suite) Gmail, sometimes every morning. It pops up a big browser-like window,

IT Administration November 24, 2020

Errors after Server Essentials Local Certificate Renewal

Last week, I got an email from my monitoring system that a certificate on a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine was about to expire. I tracked it down to the …

IT Administration November 16, 2020

Check and Change PHP Version in Azure WordPress on Linux

I’ve been testing setting up WordPress on Linux as an Azure Web App. Checking and setting the PHP version has been quite a challenge. Here’s how I finally got it …

IT Administration November 5, 2020

M365 External Forwarding to Ticketing etc. Requires New Setting

Until recently, you could set up an inbox rule in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) that would automatically forward emails e.g., to a ticketing system or to a cell phone. …

IT Administration October 13, 2020

File Validation Add-In for Office 2007

I’m installing Office 2007 on a Windows 10 virtual machine in the hopes of opening some old Word 5.x files. Windows Update installed quite a few security updates, but the …

IT Administration September 26, 2020

Remote Desktop Can’t Connect after Update to 2004

Today I applied the 2004 update to several Windows 10 Enterprise computers in a small domain. Although I did the updates mostly over RDP, soon a user reported that he …

IT Administration / Software Development August 1, 2020

Structure of COM Error Codes

A 2013 comment on this StackOverflow question was enlightening:  by converting a long decimal error (in this case 2147942667) to hex (0x8007010B), you can break out the actual error code …

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