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
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
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 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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