by Rocky Beaven | May 23, 2023 | Hyper-V, Server 201x
A Dell PowerEdge server was supplied with an OEM install of Server 2022 Std and no media. After installing the Hyper-V role on the new box you then need to install the guest OS but you have a bit of a problem: You need the software and a method of activating it....
by Rocky Beaven | Mar 27, 2023 | Microsoft 365, Outlook
A newly created room (resource) mailbox in M365 then appeared for a user with the working hours set to the wrong time zone, i.e. the user’s regular calendars showed 8-5 as normal, but this new one showed working hours as 1600-0100. There isn’t –...
by Rocky Beaven | Mar 1, 2023 | Miscellaneous
On many HP machines the user is plagued by an error dialogue that pops up repeatedly, and clicking OK simply delays its reappearance. The content of the dialogue is “Failed to create Conexant Audio Factory, The Smart Audio will now exit”. HP suggest...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 21, 2023 | Outlook
If you receive a slightly alarming, but somewhat random, error along the lines of “A program is trying to access Outlook email address information”, this can be caused by the integration of your anti-virus client with Outlook. To check and resolve: To...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 17, 2023 | Miscellaneous, Office
A user, recently upgraded from Office 2013 to 365, received an error dialogue when trying to edit an embedded Excel object in a Word document. This process worked flawlessly prior to the upgrade, the file had not been changed since and continued to work fine on other...
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