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
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
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
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
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
Sorry for clickbait title. Anyhow, if you have HP Printers and need to upgrade the firmware, you can actually download the firmware and then submit it to the printer via the “print job” form in the printer web interface to… Continue Reading