Powershell Powershell Script to Get the Current Count of Windows Processes with the Same Name Along with my colleagues, I have the privilege of serving many different technical roles at my place of employment. One of the most interesting and uniquely gratifying roles I serve is being one of the "the app monitoring guys" or "the
Advise How Much Fun are You Having on the Job? Imagine that you are talking with your boss, or a possible employer, or friend, family member, or even a complete stranger about what you do for a living. You discuss where you work, how you work, what your duties are, and other things of
Errors Cannot enable the Windows Firewall in Windows 7, error code 0x807042c This is a short post for tonight. I was helping one of my customers fix their computer and it was infected with viruses. Yes, it was Windows 7 Home Premium and yes they had the User Account Control disabled! After cleaning up the machine,
2012 DirectAccess 2012 IP-HTTPS issue, “The IP-HTTPS listener is inactive” This is now the 3rd time that I have set up a single network adapter installation of DirectAccess 2012 for one of my customers and I wanted to share my experience with one of the most common problems I’ve seen thus far. This
Advise Good Documentation in Help Desk Tickets, or Lack Of... I work in a somewhat large I.T. environment where work and responsibilities are distributed amongst each team. There are teams for development, server, network, help desk, and so forth.
2012 OS Installation BSOD with Windows Server 2012 Boot Media on UEFI Server Hardware I was working with one of my customers a few nights ago and ran into a huge roadblock when trying to boot the Windows Server 2012 Datacenter installation media (DVD\USB) on a brand new piece of server hardware. We booted the installation media
Errors RightFax 9.4 error, “The fax server could not find an account matching your network login” Here is the scenario: You just finished installing RightFax on a Windows Server and launch the RightFax Enterprise Fax Manager tool from the Start Menu. As soon as you click on any of the options on the left pane, an error appears. Clicking OK
Cpu Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installation error, “This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae” I love Ubuntu. I am not a big fan of the Unity interface, but I do love the OS itself. Last night, I attempted to install v12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) on one of my very old Dell Latitude D505 laptops and the install
Errors Windows Server 2008 R2 Error: “You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item” Here is the situation: I set up a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller, and created a new Windows Server 2008 R2 server in Hyper-V, and joined it to my domain. I am able to log in and administratively control the Domain Controller without
Deployment Deployment Workbench hangs during ISO Media Creation A colleague of mine was attempting to build an ISO of a Windows 7 image from our MDT share and ran into a problem. No matter what computer he tried to build the ISO media As it turns out, the root cause was a
Beta Fixing the Infinite Boot Loop Issue with Windows I have been helping some of my family friends as of late with their computer troubles and I would like to share this tech support story with you today… Our family friend dropped off her old, but still capable, Windows XP computer to me
Internet Explorer The Internet Explorer 10 Metro App in Windows 8 is missing. How can I enable it again? The IE10 Metro App permanently disables if IE is not the default web browser on your computer. If you change your default Web Browser in the "Default Programs" Control Panel applet to something other than Internet Explorer 10, then the Start tile
Browsers Error 310 Redirect Loop The interwebs is flooded with different documented issues about the 310 error in various web browsers and on various web sites. Here is what the error says exactly in Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer: This webpage has a redirect loop The webpage at
How-to How to Change File Associations in Windows 7/8 How-To Video on My YouTube Channel! Have you ever tried to open a file, such as a PDF document, and Windows opens a completely different program than what you would normally expect? The reason why this may happen is because the file type is
Solutions Unable to Enable the .NET Framework 3.5 Feature in Windows 8 So here was an interesting problem from today... My new work laptop finally arrived and I decided to install the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. After I joined the PC to the domain, I made sure I had administrative rights to the laptop and started
Administrative Tools Advanced Format Hard Drives and OS Deployment with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or SCCM After about a week, I finally figured out how to resolve a problem that we were experiencing with the Dell Latitude E6420 laptops when trying to re-image them with a custom Windows XP image in our MDT environment. The WIM image deploys normally to
Administrative Tools Scan a computer for malware, offline I’m too lazy tonight to write a full article on the new Windows Defender Offline Scan “Sometimes, malicious and other potentially unwanted software, including rootkits, try to install themselves on your PC. This can happen when you connect to the Internet or install
Advise Cable modems and Y-Splitters Over the years, I have slowly learned that your common 3-way cable coax splitters and cable modems just do not mix well. See that picture to the right? That is a common 3-way cable splitter. In fact, this is the exact model that you
Advise Joe’s process for cleaning up malware in Windows I felt like sharing my actual process for cleaning up malware on a computer, so here it is. This process will work for 90% of the viruses and malware that affects Microsoft Windows. Sadly, there are still occasions when I still need to wipe
Errors Case of the corrupt Normal.dot Microsoft Word templates Have you ever had a problem with Microsoft Word where you cannot print a document, or you cannot save a file, or you make an edit to a document only to find out later that Word didn't save any of the edits even though
Dns An Interesting DNS Issue Ready for another networking lesson?! Great! Lets get started… A customer called in today asking for help because they were unable to access our website or their webmail. Everything, such as e-mail or the employee web portal, is accessed directly from our website and
Advise How to set up your printer so that you can print to it without cables The Question: How do you make a printer wireless? Is it even possible? Or do I need to buy a new printer? I just went from PC to laptop. My Answer: Ah, yes. Wireless. It is nice to have wireless freedom with a laptop
Administrative Tools Help fix family and friends’ computer issues using TeamViewer One of the things that I truly enjoy is donating my time to family and friends to help them fix a problem with their computer (only as long as they don’t abuse this free service ). The problem is that I live in Florida
Administrative Tools Get Your Windows Computer Running Faster Again I got to thinking about a question the other day simply because of the fact that someone that I was helping over the phone with their computer issues asked me a similar question. It went a little something like this, “So this computer is
Advise Is your Anti-virus app slowing down your computer? I received a call from a customer the other day where they were complaining that their computer was running extremely slow. The customer would start typing in a document and there would be an extreme delay. It would take several moments for the computer