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
Windows 7 to 10 or Windows 10 Feature Upgrade – error 0xC1900202 / 0x00000000
Finally worked out what the issue with upgrading out machines to Windows 10 from Windows 7 was – if you get a 0xC1900202 error this is “0x80240020 WU_E_NO_INTERACTIVE_USER Operation did not complete because there is no logged-on interactive user.” This… Continue Reading
Dell XPS 13 9370 Mini Review
In work we buy Dell XPS 13 units for those that staff that use a laptop. Previous models have been in the 9350/9360 line, however, we’ve recently recieved two new 9370 units with 8th Gen Intel, so I thought I’d… 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
Editing a Windows 7/Windows 10 Hosts File
The Hosts file is a file within Windows which can be used to map IP addresses to hostnames, and can also be used to override settings from DNS servers. The file can be found at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc however you will need… Continue Reading
WSUS stuck on “Downloading Updates 0%” for Windows 10 1503, 1511, 1607, 1703 upgrades and 7/8 to 10 upgrade.
Wow, that’s some title gore. In my work I have taken ownership of our WSUS Server. All updates have been approved/declined fine and are deploying and installing correctly, with the exception of the Windows 10 Feature Updates. These are the… 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