Wednesday, 8 April 2015

At last! 1&1 SRV DNS records - with invalid characters warning when creating _autodiscover for Exchange

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1and1 finally add SRV records to the DNS I can't tell you how long I've wanted 1&1 to allow SRV records in the DNS editor -...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Reclaim lots of disk space from Microsoft Zune / Windows Phone .tmp files

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The laptop just shouted about having low disk space, only 100MB remaining. So I started poking around to find out what I could free up - rea...
Monday, 16 March 2015

Shared printer keeps going offline after a few minutes on Windows Server

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Sometimes its just the simple things ... AND you keep forgetting the fix. The copier company has just been and installed a shiny new Toshi...
Thursday, 19 February 2015

Draytek 2820 not connecting to Vigor 120 ADSL modem on WAN2, no response from server

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Got a DrayTek Vigor 2820 router on the latest 3.3.7.5 firmware. We've got Plusnet connected using the ADSL WAN 1 port, which works fin...
Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Windows 8.1 Hyper-V requires SLAT, is my Intel CPU supported?

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I was having a bit of trouble tracking down if there was a suitable CPU upgrade for an old Core 2 E7300 that would support Hyper-V on Wind...
Thursday, 5 February 2015

Unable to send email from SBS 2008 Task Scheduler when Event Viewer Audit Failure, error 2147746321

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I wanted an SBS 2008 server (which is essentially Windows Server 2008) to email me if there was a login failure recorded. So if someone type...
Friday, 30 January 2015

Did someone say Mouse !?

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Contrary to rumours, I'd just like to confirm I fixed the iMac to capture VHS video, not the cat. I did get help, a lot of help.
Tuesday, 20 January 2015

DrayTek Vigor 2820 ADSL monitoring with SNMP, whats the line speed OID

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One client with a DrayTek Vigor 2820n internet router has a problem with the ADSL upload speed slowing down to around 40-50% of normal on ...
Saturday, 10 January 2015

MODx Evolution 'Access Denied' to directory in assets\files

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Moved a MODX Evo website to a new server, which went pretty smoothly with the standard instructions. However any user trying to access one o...
Monday, 22 December 2014

MODX Evo server move causes error about unspecified timezone in PHP

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Having just moved a MODX Evolution based website from the old server to a 1and1 VPS, we started getting errors about not specifying a time...