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The other day I went to open the SQL Configuration Manager on our SQL Server 2012 installation and I got the following error message: “Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with the SQL Server …
I had a problem with a USB drive that the default letter kept changing. Even when the USB drives letters were set using the disk management. Disk management usually works so you can try setting the USB drive’s letter using that. Follow these steps to allocate the drive letter: Open the device manager by pressing …
Password protecting .zip files can be useful. This can allow you to password protect your files using a very common format. The methods of password protecting also uses encryption which scrambles the data to protect against third party software being able to read the data. This is good for when you want to take important …
By default in Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 when automatic updates finish you have 3 days to reboot the server. After this time period next time you login to the server it will give you the message: The problem with this is that you may not log into your server for weeks then all …
This error happens when opening a file in word or the other Microsoft Office programs. This seems to be a problem with an Microsoft Add-In that has been installed. To fix this there are two options. The first is to disable office add-ins. You can disable the office add-ins by: Open the program (in this …
I accidentally deleted all of the public folders today from a public folder database. Pretty silly yeah? But this is the reason I am always going on about having a solid backup routine. So I have my backup which I took right before I started working. I thought now I just need to find the …
I tried to add a user mailbox on an Exchange 2007 Server and got the following error: The Exchange server address list service failed to respond. This could be because of an address list or email address policy configuration error. Exchange Management Shell command attempted: New-MailUser -Name ‘user’ -Alias ‘user’ -OrganizationalUnit ‘domainname.local/Users’ -UserPrincipalName ‘[email protected]’ -SamAccountName …
Why Harden Windows Security On Your Network Having a secure environment can significantly reduce the amount of break/fix work that you need to do. Things that securing your computers can help prevent are: Viruses Bloatware Securing files and company data Protecting against accidental data loss This article will discuss how to secure Windows computers that …
Sometimes the .camrec file from Camtasia Studio can get corrupted. When this happens you can recover the recording from the file. You will be able to tell when the Camtasia Studio recording is corrupted because when you go to open the file with Camtasia Studio it crashes. When it crashes you will get an error …
Why Do We Need This Guide Now lets just get started with the fact that this guide is intended to be used as a last resort. Please try to get away from Windows XP as soon as possible. Microsoft have killed support for Windows XP as of the 8th of April 2014. This means that …