troubleshooting
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Software
How to troubleshoot Dell Open Manage Essentials connecting to your servers
So recently, I decided to setup a Dell Open Manage Essentials server in an environment running many Dell devices. Most of the servers in the environment were already installed with the Open Manage Server Administrator (OMSA) software, so this made…
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MySQL
How to troubleshoot MySQL connectivity issues
So you have setup a wordpress or drupal site and you need to access MySQL to be able to work on your database. However, you can’t seem to connect to MySQL as you expect. Each time you try to connect…
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Group Policy
Software restriction policy path rule still blocking allowed programs
Software restriction policies are a great way to restrict certain program activity in your Windows domain. They can be tremendously helpful in containing a malware outbreak or preventing them altogether, especially as we have seen with the recent Cryptolocker malware.…
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Clonezilla not finding network card driver
Clonezilla is a great open source means to capture and restore system images and it works very well. However, like all boot disks, you may run into issues if you boot from Clonezilla on a laptop or desktop that has…
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Windows
How to login locally if you don’t know computer name
You may have run into a situation where you need to login locally to a workstation that may be joined to a domain. The last person that logged into the workstation used the domain credentials so by default, the workstation…
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Servers
IIS Edit Bindings error 80 is an invalid IP address
Synopsis of issue: You have a website running in Internet Information Services that is already configured with default bindings such as the hostname, etc. However, you would like to add another host name to the website to match a CNAME…
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Windows
Easy ways to get to Windows Task Manager
Let’s face it, from time to time, we just need to get to task manager and kill an application or get a quick look at system resources. There are many different ways to get to Task manager in Windows. We…
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Android
Samsung Galaxy S4 widgets not updating
After recently purchasing Samsung’s new flagship smartphone the Galaxy S4, I have had a weird issue with some of my beloved weather widgets not updating. I had tried several different ones and after a period of time, the widget would…
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Powershell
How to see what network drives a remote computer is connected to using powershell
In our Powershell series for performing day to day administrative tasks we want to move on to a task that many admins may need to perform as an information gathering tool in troubleshooting, etc. That task is finding what network…
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Exchange
How to add additional mailboxes to Outlook 2010
You may have the need to add additional mailboxes in Outlook 2010. To make this happen there are a few things that need to be verified, but these are not difficult at all. The first thing is to make sure…
