Installing Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview
With Microsoft’s recent announcement of Windows 10 and the availability of the technical preview for download, the buzz is surrounding Microsoft’s latest and great OS coming down the pipeline. With…
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How to allow remote desktop connection Windows 8.1
Remote desktop is a great way to connect to a workstation either in the same location or remotely anywhere on the Internet (with proper firewall allowances in place of course).…
MySQL Workbench won’t launch Windows 8.1
I ran into a pesky issue the other day using MySQL workbench where the program itself simply would not launch. I could see the process running in Task manager in…
Make TSADMIN.MSC work in Windows 8.1
So if you are an admin and have migrated your administrator workstation over to Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 lately, you may run into a frustration if you are used…
Makewinpemedia Diskpart Format ErrorLevel -2147212243
In working with Windows 8.1 WADK in a client environment recently, the need arose to create a USB key to boot from for PE environment on a workstation. There is a…
Install .Net Framework in Windows 8 or 8.1 offline without Internet
You may have encountered an issue with installing .NET framework feature in Windows 8 or 8.1 where the installer simply fails with the error 0x800f0906 which alludes to a problem with an…
Install all updates besides select few Ubuntu Server
Recently, in working on updating an Ubuntu server for a client that was running a customized version of Nginx compiled with Google Pagespeed and other mods, we wanted to install…
Linux redirected output not showing in file
Recently, when working with Nginx, I wanted to export out the details of my Nginx build so I could see all modules the webserver was compiled with. However, each time…
Windows Server Backup not running backup job
Windows Server backup is a great out of the box utility in Windows Server 2008 R2 and higher versions for performing good backups if you don’t have the budget for…
Why is Hard Drive space steadily decreasing
If you have had an issue with hard drive space steadily decreasing and many of you have, the issue may not be files at all. In fact, in many cases…