Advise Upgrading to Windows Server 2012 R2 from 2012 RTM Running SharePoint 2013 These are some of my own notes on upgrading Sharepoint Server 2013 from the server running Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2. I know this will help others that made the same mistakes that I did. I'm grateful to have the ability
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.
Networking Network Connections Unavailable for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 12.10 virtual machines in VMware ESXi I created several virtual machines in my VMware ESXi 5.1 host whose OS was Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The installation was smooth and fast, but after they booted up for the first time there was no available network connections on any of the
Administrative Tools Viewing logs in Apple iOS One of the best features of all of Apple's Mac OS X and iOS versions is that the operating system is constantly logging things. Logs are a history of what is going on with your device. If you are experiencing network or wireless issues,
2012 More issues and solutions for DirectAccess in Windows Server 2012, Notes from the field Tonight, I have some more DirectAccess 2012 woes and solutions to share. These are more or less some notes I jotted down while setting up DA2012 for a customer. Note #1: The following case occurred both with my customer’s DirectAccess 2012 server, as
2012 Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess IP-HTTPS Error Route has not been enabled I was in the middle of setting up DirectAccess 2012 in an IPv4-only environment for one of my customers when I hit a really big roadblock. Originally, I had DA set up using the simple deployment method. Everything installed just fine and the DA
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
Boot Troubleshooting Slow Boot Performance in Windows It has been a few weeks since my last post, but trust me when I say the wait was worth it. This is another article that would go along with my "advanced windows desktop troubleshooting" series of posts only if I actually
Issues Advanced Windows Desktop Troubleshooting with Sysinternals Process Monitor This is a special post on a troubleshooting event that I was able to participate in which occurred a short while ago. My company started deploying Windows 7 computers throughout the organization during the summer. We use two different Windows deployment types depending on
Meraki Meraki MX80 Router, Meraki MS22 Switch, and VLAN tagging There is a serious lack of blog content on Meraki troubleshooting and experiences from I.T. pros in the world. So I figure why not write one of my own articles? This post is all about one specific problem my colleagues and I had
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
Advise A Learning Lesson for those I.T. Technicians… This post is intended to be a very cold, hard, lesson for all I.T. technicians. First, read the two scenarios listed below. See if you can find the problems with each of these stories… Scenario #1: A customer calls the help desk because
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
Dashboard Updates to the Dashboard A brand new section has been added to the Dashboard titled, Troubleshooting -Joe
Deployment WinPE error when connecting to an MDT share: "Invalid Credentials" Have you ever seen this error when trying to re-image a computer using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit? You double-checked everything. The credentials are correct for the service\local account you created with access to the share, you double-checked both bootstrap.ini and customsettings.ini, and
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
Errors An issue with Windows XP when trying to access a file share on a Windows 7 computer **** Full credit for the solution to this problem goes to Alan LaMielle. Thanks Alan! Original article link here:** It has been over a week since my last post, so I figured it is time to add an update! I was able to help out
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
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
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
