Frikkin’ Lasers over Bristol
Recently there’s been a few lasers shone over Bristol to support the NHS. This is a temporary thing from SXS Events. Photos taken on a OnePlus 7T Pro.
Remove Network History Locations from Windows and Changing Network Location
When you connect to a new network on Windows 10 you’ll have a panel come up on the right that looks like this. Clicking yes sets it as a private network, clicking no sets it as a public and devices… Continue Reading
How to set a Static IP on a TP Link HS110 Kasa Smart Plug
Well, the short answer is you can’t. The HS110 doesn’t have a web interface for management, so you’re unable to set an address on it. What I’ve done on my network is created a DHCP reservation on the DHCP server… Continue Reading
Server 2019 Activation Error 0x8a010001 – The specified product key could not be validated.
I have recently rebuilt my file server and when I tried to re-activate the Windows license I recieved the message below. Error: 0x8a010001The specified product key could not be validated. Check that the specified product key is valid and that… Continue Reading
On Google Apps Device Management options
Google Apps has a number of Device Management options which cover mobile phones, Chromebooks/Chromeboxes, Chrome Browsers installed on Windows/Mac OSX and Meeting Room Hardware. I will skip the meeting room hardware as I don’t know anywhere that uses these –… Continue Reading
Domain-joined servers cannot access non-domain file shares
I ran into this when I was setting up a test domain at home. A domain controller and domain server was unable to connect to my file server that was not on the domain. Trying to access the file share… Continue Reading
Dell iDRAC 6 Firmware
Dell iDRAC Monolithic Release 2.92 This is the current version for the iDRAC 6 firmware. I will try and keep it updated as Dell change their site.
Backup Exec SMTP E-Mail notifications with Google Mail
Recently in work I’ve been looking at getting our Backup Exec email notifications working so it can alert us on failure of the job. Had some issues in work so I installed BackupExec on a VM at home and tried… Continue Reading
Server 2019 Activation Error: Run “slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004F069” to display the error text
I was trying to activate Server 2019 Standard in a virtual machine this weekend, and on trying to enter the license key I got an error code of “0x80070032″ which wasn’t very helpful. This led onto trying to use slrmgr… Continue Reading
Windows 10 Hyper-V failing to connect to virtual machine
I use Hyper-V on both my home and work machines for testing things. My work pc recently stopped connecting when I hit right-click and “Connect” on the Hyper-V Console, whilst my home PC continued to work. Looking under Task Manager… Continue Reading