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SOLVED: Copy Paste Not Working In Windows Phone Link

Readers of the site we’ll know that we’ve just upgraded all of our staff to Samsung Galaxy S25‘s and then added the new phones to our handy Windows Phone Link (the app that connects cell phones to...

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SOLVED: WiFi Error – Can’t Connect Because The Sign In Requirements For Your...

We recently had a problem in our own corporate office with the following error when trying to connect to WiFi: As you might suspect this was quite unexpected and urgent. We run two different networks...

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SOLVED: How To Determine What Program is Locking a File In Use

As you can see in the screen shot below after we turned off HIDE HIDDEN SYSTEM FILES, we could see that there was a dumpstack.log.tmp file which is not a good thing: When dumpstack.log.tmp appears...

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SOLVED: Windows 11 Mini-Setup Error – Something went wrong but you can try...

We were deploying some new windows 11 Dell laptops when we ran into this error on several of them when we were trying to sign in with new local accounts: Something went wrong But you can try again...

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SOLVED: VIDEO: How To SysPrep a Customized Windows 11 Easily

If you’re looking to sysprep a customized Windows 11 setup with ease, this video has everything you need! Whether you’re preparing a system for deployment or troubleshooting common issues, this guide...

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SOLVED: How To Set Default Printer When Logging In To A Specific Computer –...

We recently wrote brief script and article explaining how to set a specific default printer using a simple PowerShell script and Logon GPO. However, we found an even easier way to do the same thing...

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SOLVED: How To Set Default Printer When Logging In To A Specific Computer

We have a client with a new RDS server and they want their all of their staff to have the “CutePDF Writer” as their default printer, but only when on that computer. To that end we wrote this script:...

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SOLVED: Which User Profiles Are Still Being Used?

We had a client with over 100 user profile folders in C:\USERS, so they wanted to know which ones are still being used and which ones are not. The first thing we did is to click on the START button and...

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SOLVED: Script to Export List of All Local Administrators

We brought on a new client with a lot of servers and as part of our due diligence, we needed to review all of the local administrators on each server. We wanted to make sure the previous MSP’s staff...

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SOLVED: Script To Search For Specific Certificate

We had a computer with an expired certificate we could not find, but our monitoring software was alerting on. After some time, we gave up opening each certificate, one by one, to see if the thumbprint...

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SOLVED: Fix Time Drift on a Corporate PC or Domain Controller

Last week we had a client with the Domain Controller that was off by more than three and a half minutes from the PDC. In case you’re not sure yes that is bad. If it gets to five minutes it can be...

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SOLVED: Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) Deprecated

This is a very big change for small and medium sized businesses. In Microsoft’s never ending push to paid subscription services, they announced that WSUS would be deprecated. When Is WSUS Deprecated?...

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SOLVED: Users and Computer Changes Syncing But GPO’s and Scripts Are Not

We have a new customer whose Group Policies (GPO’s) and Scripts were not synchronizing between their two Domain Controllers, even though changes to Users and Computers were synchronized. Did you know...

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SOLVED: DFS State Query & Codes Explained

If you have worked with Active Directory on Windows Servers, you may have run into problems with things like GPO’s and Scripts not syncing between Domain Controllers and wondered how to troubleshoot...

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SOLVED: Who and When Did Someone Login?

We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks,...

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SOLVED: Active Directory Object Contains Other Objects. Use Delete Subtree?

If you are trying to delete a user or compute from Active Directory you might be presented with the following popup message: Confirm Subtree Deletion Object {User or Computer Name} you sure you want to...

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SOLVED: A Simple Explanation of Email Security with DKIM and DMARC

A long time ago when the earth was green and everyone was good, email was sent in plain text from a senders outbox, to a their mail server, then to the recipients mail server, then to the recipients...

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SOLVED: How to Add a Subdomain to an Active Directory Domain

Here the simple steps to add a subdomain to an on-premises Active Directory domain: Note that these steps assume you have the necessary administrative privileges (Domain or Enterprise Admin) to make...

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SOLVED: Who Is Enterprise Admin?

Microsoft Windows uses forest structure and in that forest are Domains.  Most small companies only have one domain but it is still in a forest… a forest with one domain. Whats The Difference between...

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SOLVED: What’s the Difference Between DELETE and REMOVE in VMware

In VMware, the terms “delete” and “remove” have distinct meanings: If you want to keep the VM’s files for future re-registration, you should select “remove from inventory.” If you want to delete the VM...

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