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IT Administration January 28, 2019

Lenovo ThinkPad or ThinkCentre Stuck on Boot Screen

Does your Lenovo get stuck on the black Lenovo screen when it reboots?

IT Administration January 25, 2019

Windows Server Backup UI Fails to Start

I’ve encountered this a couple times now with new Server 2016 installations. Some time after configuring backups, I try to start the Server Backup UI and get this:

IT Administration January 22, 2019

QuickBooks Desktop Won’t Add Payment Link to Email

I subscribe to QuickBooks Payments. I spent hours today trying to get QuickBooks Pro 2018 to add a View and Pay Now link to the bottom of an emailed invoice.

IT Administration January 18, 2019

Firefox and Intermediate Certificates

Recently I was trying to get a Snom D785 phone to connect to a server that uses an SSL certificate issued by COMODO (now rebranded as Sectigo). Snom uses the …

IT Administration January 17, 2019

Windows 2016 Can’t Find Control Panel Items

On a new Server 2016 build 1607 install, after activating the BitLocker feature, when I typed “Manage BitLocker” in the Start menu, nothing was found. Following this article, I started …

IT Administration January 14, 2019

BitLocker Wizard Initialization Has Failed

After installing Server 2016 updates and rebooting a couple days ago, BitLocker came up in a suspended state for drive C:. When I clicked on Resume protection, I got this …

IT Administration January 4, 2019

Update to GoldMine 2018.2 Causes Failures

If you update from GoldMine 2018.1 to 2018.2 using the default installation options, you will likely fail to get into GoldMine after the update.

IT Administration December 31, 2018

DFSR Error 4012 on Stand-Alone Domain Controller

I recently migrated a Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 install to Server 2016 with the Essentials role. Part of the migration was to migrate all FSMO roles, demote the old …

IT Administration December 22, 2018

UniFi Switch Command to Show Cable Lengths

From this thread, a command to show cable length and status. Run in the CLI of a UniFi switch: swctrl -d cable show Gives some odd results sometimes and not …

IT Administration December 14, 2018

Remote Desktop Fails to Connect to Gateway 0xC000035B

A new Windows 10 Pro 1803 computer could not establish a connection through a Server 2016 machine running Remote Desktop Gateway. The Win10 machine showed this error:

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