Thursday, November 5, 2020

Windows 10 machines with bitlocker on when you didn't enable it (finding the recovery key)

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 I had a Lenovo Carbon X1 laptop that was bitlocker encrypted that I did not turn on.  As such, I did not have the recovery key.  I found th...
Friday, February 28, 2020

Windows 8 - User profile service failed the sign in

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I came across a Windows 8 laptop (yes in February 2020) that was running Windows 8, but when I created a new user and tried to log in, I got...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Quickbooks multi-user requires NETBOIS names

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This is a quick reminder for myself or anyone who is getting H202 errors or perhaps 6190 and 816 errors, the mapped drives on the remote com...
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Monday, April 1, 2019

Installing Office 2019 Volume License

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Office 2019 Volume License installation has a new installation process.  Here's the process I've successfully used. Download the...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

tracking disk usage on a Mac

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When looking to track disk usage on a PC, I often use TreeSizeFree  - which is awesome.  But I struggled to find something like that in a Ma...
Thursday, November 1, 2018

Windows 7 compression bug fills up hard drive in Windows temp space

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A couple times, I've seen a Windows 7 computer with no free hard drive space and tons of space used in c:\windows\temp.  The answer is i...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Enabling modern authentication (ADAL) on Skype for Business

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By default, Skype for Business requires users to use App Passwords for logging into Skype for Business. I'm stealing the info from thi...
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