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.
technical
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
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
Dell XPS 13 asking for Bitlocker key every startup
I’ve recently been encrypting our fleet of Dell XPS 13 laptops ready for GDPR compliance come May 2018. I have had some issues with the machine asking for the bitlocker recovery key on each startup and from what I can… Continue Reading
“Catastrophic Failure” on deleting a BackupExec Backup to Disk Volume
Recently ran into an issue which required me to remove and re-add the Backup to Disk location within Backup Exec. However when I tried to remove the location Backup Exec popped up with “catastrophic error”. Download and install the Microsoft… Continue Reading
Writing last logged on user to a machine’s description field in AD (with serial and model of machine)
Originally from https://4sysops.com/archives/automatically-fill-the-computer-description-field-in-active-directory/. Open Active Directors Users and Computers MMC Right click on your domain, and select ‘properties’ from the context menu On the ‘security’ tab, click the ‘advanced’ button Click the ‘add’ button, type ‘Authenticated Users’. Then click OK.… Continue Reading