by Rocky Beaven | Oct 14, 2021 | Software
I was attempting to set up a simple Veeam backup agent on a standalone Windows PC when the installer hung on ‘detecting external devices’. Cancelling the search showed the software was fully installed but when I tried to create a new job it produced an...
by Rocky Beaven | Oct 13, 2021 | Microsoft KB, Server 201x
We usually configure servers to use an external time source, but a new client’s existing (2012) server was using the ‘free running system clock’ and was about six minutes fast. The quickest solution is to apply the registry changes outlined in the MS...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 16, 2021 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell, Software
Someone was struggling to log in to Teams via a web browser. After doing a sanity check that they did indeed have a Teams licence in the 365 portal, and they had tried running it in an InPrivate/Incognito window (just in case), further investigation showed that the...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 13, 2021 | Miscellaneous, Software
Needed a remote user to be able to access a server (with admin rights) but nothing else on the LAN. Without getting into detail, the option for using VLANs (tagged or otherwise) wasn’t available, so needed a simple solution. Using the existing Draytek router I...
by Rocky Beaven | Aug 16, 2021 | Microsoft 365, Office
By default when you install Office (365 or 201x) it joins the ‘monthly’ update channel where you will receive all updates, both security and feature, as soon as they are released by Microsoft. Generally having the security updates applied immediately is a...
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