MCB GoldLink, 3CX, and Call Transfers
One of the features of MCB GoldLink to 3CX is to “pop” the GoldMine record of an inbound call received through 3CX. However, users sometimes find that this doesn’t work …
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Force Windows Update Scan on Windows 10 or 2016
You’ll notice that the Check for Updates button goes away in Windows 10 or 2016 once an update is pending. To manually retry seeking for updates, forcing Windows to check …
Install Windows 10 Remotely Using AMT vPro
This is just cool. Because AMT vPro gives me out-of-band control of a machine, I can boot from Windows installation media, wipe a disk partition, and install Windows 10 from …
Move the Users Share in SBS 2011
For some reason, SBS 2011 set up the UserShares under C:\Users\Share. I wanted it to be with all the other shared folders under C:\Data. The wizard only allows moving the …
Network Backup Causes VSS Error 8194
After setting up a new Windows 10 desktop in an Essentials 2012R2 domain, every day when the Essentials backup runs, backing up the machine across the network, I see this …
June Update Causes EventLog Error 30
I’ve now seen this on two machines running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials: after installing the June 2018 Windows updates, the server suddenly raises Microsoft-Windows-Eventlog event ID 30 regarding the …
Essentials 2016 Dashboard Fails with .NET 4.7.1
I blogged in October 2016 and February 2018 about incompatibilities between the Essentials 2012 R2 dashboard and .NET 4.6 and 4.7. I’ve now confirmed that under Server 2016 Standard with …
Windows 10 Unexpectedly Updated to 1803
A Windows 10 Pro machine unexpectedly updated from 1709 to 1803, even though it is on a domain with group policy to defer updates. The Microsoft product team reviewed logs …
Mesh Commander and the Two Green Arrows
This weekend, I was glad to have Intel vPro set up on some remote client machines. Windows had lost network connection (a DHCP issue) but fortunately vPro still had the …
Leave Everything to Us
If you’ve recently upgraded your Windows 10 PC, you may have seen Microsoft telling you during the upgrade to “Leave everything to us”: Kind of reminiscent of the way people …