by Rocky Beaven | Feb 8, 2022 | Software
Recently installed Act! on a client’s existing SQL server and from that point on backing up the VM (using Veaam) failed with a VSS writer error that can be summarised as “Failed to create VM recovery checkpoint (code 32768)” Running vssadmin list writers...
by Rocky Beaven | Jan 31, 2022 | Microsoft 365, Outlook, PowerShell
On occasion I’ve had to adjust permissions on a calendar for a shared mailbox (note, not a resource mailbox) whereby all users need to be able to view all entries, but only edit/delete their own items. This can be achieved simply by setting the...
by Rocky Beaven | Jan 24, 2022 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell
Within your 365 tenant you can use the ‘Alternate email address’ field for each user to identify where to send links should the account be locked/password forgotten. You could of course leave this for the user to add, but if you know what the alternate...
by Rocky Beaven | Dec 2, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Office
An oldie but a goodie. A user still running Office 2013 started receiving odd errors when trying to open both Word and Excel files. In each instance the error was completely different, but the issue/solution was the same. The problem only occurred when they were...
by Rocky Beaven | Nov 22, 2021 | Hyper-V
Following a server reboot we had one of the Hyper-V guests (Server 2012R2 in this instance) hang on the initial Hyper-V splash screen (black background, white text) with no sign of progress, i.e. no Windows boot or spinning dots etc. Hyper-V manager showed the guest...
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