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May 8, 2023

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Voicemail Not Appearing in users' Settings for a new Teams Phone System If the voicemail option is not appearing for users as it should ...
August 8, 2022

3D Printing on Fabric or "What is that, velvet?"

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Having recently picked up a 3D printer, I've been playing around with various prints and odd models.  During my dives into Youtube's...
July 1, 2022

"Power to the people, Marty." Or, Lenovo please stop telling me the onboard battery has failed.

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One of the most annoying problems with modern laptops is the lack of user-replaceable (or even just 'replaceable') batteries.  Curre...
January 24, 2015

Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 remote desktop issues or "Stop looking at me!!!"

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I occasionally get asked to enable Remote Desktop on a Windows 7 machine that does not normally include the feature (Home Premium). Enablin...
October 23, 2014

HP Installer Setup has stopped working or "My kingdom for a decent error message!"

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I was recently called upon to install a new HP Color Laserjet M476nw at an employee's home office.  Unfortunately, after downloading the...
May 30, 2014

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and DVD's

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"Gee Brain, whatdya wanna do tonight?" "The same thing we do every night Pinky, disassemble the DVD player!" As a coll...
April 15, 2014

5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender - or "Leeloo Dallas, MultiPass."

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After my recent upgrade to Exchange 2010, I began having issues with sending out service account emails.  Usually I use distribution group a...
March 28, 2014

Android Gallery force closes when Share pressed, or "I'll make him a (sharing) offer he can't refuse!"

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Recently, I ran into a problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone's Gallery app. When I pressed the Share button, the Gallery would force cl...
February 17, 2014

Exchange Management Console login issue with quota request exceeded - or "I'm giving her all (the Kerberos requests) she's got, Captain!"

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I've been having issues with some of my Exchange servers being unable to open the Exchange Management Console.  When attempting to make ...
February 10, 2014

Review: "Megamind" (theatrical)

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So you finally take control of the world.  Now what? This question is the focus of the second act of Dreamworks' newest animated...

Down-under Terminal Server connection woes 4 - or "You must *feel* the Force (packets) flowing through you!"

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(The following is meant as humor, but it does describe the solution to this issue.) While I was working on the terminal server issues desc...
February 6, 2014

'Unable To Upgrade Account' or "That depends on your definition of 'Unregistered', Senator."

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I've had some issues lately with Samsung Galaxy devices not playing nice with my MobileIron system.  When trying to setup the email acco...
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February 5, 2014

Down-under Terminal Server connection woes 3 - or "I left my (packet) back in San Francisco"

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Microsoft came back with an update after examining network traces from the client and the server.  Seems the initial 'scaling' conne...
February 4, 2014

Down-under Terminal Server connection woes 2 - or "What's love (of encryption) got to do with it?"

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What's in a name?  What's in a service pack?  Two (almost) identical questions when it comes to the world of Microsoft - for all Mic...
February 3, 2014

Down-under Terminal Server connection woes - or "Throw another protocol error on the Barbie!"

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Recently, I've had to deal with a rather bizarre terminal server issue.  At this one location, no computer could connect to a specific t...
February 1, 2014

Ramblings of a (IT) madman

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I started this blog with the intent of documenting the crazy issues I deal with on a semi-regular basis for the betterment of mankind - or a...