SOLVED: How to Determine Your IP Address on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS/X...
Below are the commands used to find your IP Address on different operating systems: WINDOWS IP ADDRESS Start a CMD window and type ipconfig or ipconfig /all (not case sensitive) and press ENTER LINUX...
View ArticleSOLVED: Cannot Install Dell SAN Headquarters On Windows 10 Because .NET...
If you are trying to install SAN Headquarters on a Windows 10 PC you will likely find that it has not (as of yet) been updated to support the .NET 4.6 (note the “6”) or newer. This means that it is...
View ArticleSOLVED: Cluster Aware Updating Readiness Analyzer Warning – The machine proxy...
You may find ANALYZE CLUSTER UPDATING READINESS (in CLUSTER AWARE UPDATING in your Windows Server Cluster) comes back with a warning: Rule ID: 10 Title: The machine proxy on each failover cluster node...
View ArticleSOLVED: Failover Cluster CHKDSK Scan Needed On Volume How To
If you are running a Windows Failover Cluster and you see CHKDSK Scan Needed On Volume you need to deal with it quickly. Fortunately there is an easy process to fix it: In Failover Cluster Manager,...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Press CTRL ALT DEL on a Surface 4 or Surface Book Without a...
The question I was originally asked was, “How do I bring up the soft / on-screen keyboard when a Surface Book is locked, so that I can press CNTL ALT DEL?”. This took me some time to figure out… but I...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Remove Old Computers From Windows 10 HomeGroup Listing
If you have had a Windows HomeGroup for a few years, you likely have some old / dead / sold computers in your listing that you would like to clean out. While this is not hard to do, it is not in the...
View ArticleSOLVED: HyperV – The IP address x.x.x.x you have entered for this network...
If you have moved a HyperV VHDx file to a new server, built a new VM using that drive and then tried to set the previous static IP Address on it, you will receive the following error: The IP address...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Activate Windows 10 / Server 2016 Through Command Line
If you are having problems activating Windows 10, Server 2016, Windows 8, or Server 2012 one of these three solutions below should get you through: Command Line to Launch Activation GUI: This is handy...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases New Insider Ring For Windows 10
The 3 Windows Insider rings are: Fast – Best for Insiders who enjoy being the first to get access to builds and feature updates, with some risk to their devices in order to identify issues, and provide...
View ArticleThe Best Cell Phone Ever?
“Best” is a relative word so let me be clear that I think the Lumia 650 will be the best cell phone buy of 2016. In January Microsoft announced Lumia 650 which has amazing spec’s… for the price. At...
View ArticleSOLVED: What Does Private Cloud Mean
I was taking a quarterly survey from our friends at the research company IDC and found that they had developed a very clean set of definitions for what they named Deployment Models, so I stole them and...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Configure the Boot Order on a HyperV Virtual Machine
If you need to change to boot order on a Windows Server HyperV Virtual Machine (VM): Launch HyperV Click on your VM to select it Click SETTINGS in the menu on the right Click BIOS Make your change and...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Get Windows Server 2012 and 2016 Into Safe Mode F8
If you have worked on Windows 8 or newer, you will know that Microsoft has removed the F8 boot functionality. They did this to decrease boot times. What is odd is that they applied this logic to...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Copy Permissions and Files At the Same Time
I had a bad VHD that I was unable to copy, I would get CANNOT READ SOURCE… after about 30%. Then I tried to build a new VHD using the COPY CONTENTS… function in HyperV but that failed at about 30%...
View ArticleSOLVED: Can SCCM Bitlocker Encrypt All Internal Disks
The short answer is no. Even the latest version of SCCM 1551 in 2016 cannot turn on BitLocker for more than a specific drive. Worse, if you manually turn on BitLocker for other disks after SCCM has...
View ArticleSOLVED: Failover Cluster Manager Shows, Unable to Determine Monitored Services
If you see Unable to Determine Monitored Services I have found three reasons this may occur: The guest VM operating system does not support Monitored Services. I found this occurred with Linux VM’s....
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Disable Clutter Feature in Outlook / Office 365 / Powershell
“Clutter” is a feature enabled in all Office365 hosted email addresses as of summer 2015. Clutter uses Microsoft’s machine learning named Delve to figure out what is not important to you and moves...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Brand The Office365 / Azure Sign in Page
If you are sick of seeing the “cars and connect” page for Microsoft logins, good news! You can now customize and brand the log in page if you have a corporate Office365 or Azure account. To be clear,...
View ArticleSOLVED: Failover Cluster Manager – An Error Occurred While Moving Virtual...
This was an ugly little problem for a newbie to Failover Clustering like me. If you see the: An Error Occurred While Moving Virtual Machine(s) Storage – General Access Denies 0x80070005 the most...
View ArticleSOLVED: Word Excel Outlook Are Fuzzy on External Screens on Windows 10 and 8
If you find that system windows and text (like the START menu, THIS PC, CONTROL PANEL) are perfectly clear, but some programs like Word and Outlook have fuzzy text, AND you are using a tablet (like a...
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