by Rocky Beaven | Jul 7, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Had a couple of recent cases of not being able to open the Control Panel Mail applet (either from Control Panel directly, or via command line etc). The general consensus seems to be that a recent MS update (quelle surprise!) has broken it. In addition to the suggested...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 24, 2016 | Hyper-V, Server 201x
Just had an instance where a Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V guest shut down unexpectedly, and was then on a blue screen of death reboot loop on restart. (The fact it was a guest VM is pretty irrelevant, the following instructions will work for a physical server, or indeed a...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 9, 2016 | Miscellaneous
Similar to the issue I had previously installing .NET 3.5 on Server 2012, the same problem manifests in Windows 8/10 and later where the PC tries, and fails, to use WSUS to get the requisite update files. Making a small change to the Local Group Policy will help get...
by Rocky Beaven | Dec 1, 2015 | Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, Outlook
During a cutover migration you will usually end up with the on-premises Exchange server (as part of SBS for example) still running and this can cause issues whilst trying to get Outlook clients to autodiscover the Office365 servers. The first thing to do is to remove...
by Rocky Beaven | Dec 1, 2015 | Miscellaneous
If you need to know the service tag of a system whilst not physically in front of the machine (or the service tag label is missing!) you can do so via the command line: If you can RDP to the system, open a command prompt (admin not required) and then enter: wmic...
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