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IT Administration November 13, 2015

Action Pack Now Has 10 Support Incidents

Not sure if this is news to anyone else, but Microsoft Action Pack now includes 10 support incidents for any supported product—see the Core benefits page.

IT Administration November 12, 2015

Print Detailed Windows Update Information

Earlier this year, I wrote about how to show and change Windows Update settings on a machine using PowerShell. But sometimes you need to know more about a Windows update …

IT Administration November 12, 2015

Essentials 2012 R2 Anywhere Access VPN Failure

I’ve set up Anywhere Access on my Essentials 2012 R2 server including the VPN option. However, when I try to connect, the connection fails and I get error 20253 on …

IT Administration November 11, 2015

Uninstall and Hide Windows Updates

Sometimes Microsoft releases a bad update via Windows Update. It might be 3035583 that has been released multitple times to to push Windows 10 nag prompts to users. Or 3097877 …

IT Administration November 9, 2015

Free Up Memory for Hyper-V Guests

I run a small Server 2012 R2 machine that functions primarily as a Hyper-V server. It has 12 GB of RAM. The guests do not use dynamic RAM. Today I …

IT Administration October 30, 2015

3CX 11 Fails to Start after Build 30295 Update

Today I installed 3CX version 11 with SP4 on a new, virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. The installer downloaded and installed the Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x64 redistributable. The …

IT Administration September 10, 2015

Windows Update Operation 4913 of 11629

Usually Windows Updates shows you a percentage complete as the machine is rebooting. Yesterday for some reason, on one Windows 7 machine, I got a count of the “operations”: The …

IT Administration September 9, 2015

Aspire R11 R3-131T and the 32GB Limit

Recently I purchased an Acer Aspire R3-131T-C28S from Walmart. I wanted to see how far I could get with a $199 computer. The answer? Pretty far, but not far enough. …

IT Administration August 6, 2015

HitmanPro.Alert Crashes Windows 10 Upgrade

I was running HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5.77 on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 Pro laptop. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 (using the online update or a USB key), it repeatedly …

IT Administration / Tips and Tricks August 3, 2015

Open Word 5 File in Word 2013

I have some Microsoft Word 5 files from 1990 that were not opening properly in Word 2013. I could see some text but not all, and the formatting was wrong. …

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