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You may receive, “Your Account Was Not Setup On This Device Because Device Management Could Not Be Enabled” After trying to setup a Microsoft Office 365 service (like OneDrive or Outlook) or in our case the user was trying to ADD ACCOUNT to her existing accounts. You might be surprised Read more…
There certainly can be a lot of confusion when you see the “Looks like this isn’t a Microsoft account. Try another e-mail or sign up for a new one” as shown in screenshot below: Put simply, Microsoft Office 365 accounts from your company or school are not considered Microsoft accounts Read more…
Virtual machines built in azure will be defaulted to having updates automatically downloaded and installed when they are released on patch Tuesday. When you look at windows update you will see it says Some settings are managed by your organization which inplies that there is a group policy object being Read more…
Over the last couple of years we have been playing with several different scripts to create Snapshots of virtual machines (VM) in Azure and none of them have had us completely happy. Our most recent Azure Snapshot script from about a year ago, did work and was easy to understand Read more…
In the last 6 months we have seen an ever increasing number of successful ransomware attacks and you NEED to think about it before your company is attacked. Ransomware attacks are becoming more common and sophisticated than ever before. A ransomware attack can occur at any time, and it can Read more…
A client of ours has a Lenevo Thinkbook 14 Gen 2 which she wants to wipe and load a fresh Windows 10 or Windows 11. She followed our video instructions on how to do a bare metal Windows 11 (same as Windows 10) install but got stuck on the WHERE Read more…
Azure Code Signing is a service provided by Microsoft that enables software developers to securely “sign” their code using digital certificates. When code is signed with a digital certificate, it provides an assurance that the code (any code – Windows executables, PowerShell scripts, and Java code…) has not been tampered Read more…
We recently had a client that needed to wipe out their Nutanix storage and virtual machine cluster and to do that we needed to load a Nutanix ISO from a Windows server. No matter what source we selected we received this error message: The source files could not be found. Read more…
Very few home users think they have more than one network card but almost all do: PRO TIP: In Windows 10 and 11 Microsoft has hard coded the prioritization of a wired network card when a Wi-fi network card exists in the same machine. In corporate settings, virtually all physical Read more…
This video was originally intended for home users who want to backup their Microsoft Office 365 files like OneDrive and Email, but the instructions the same for small businesses that want to back up their Microsoft 365 data for free. In fact, Veeam for Microsoft 365 can be used by Read more…
We noticed honeyhashx86.exe (32 bit) in Task Manager running in the background and did not recognize it. It seems too obvious to be malware but we did find more than one website which claimed it was a “Trojan Coin Miner”. They were wrong. What is Honeyhashx86.exe? honeyhashx86.exe is not malware. Read more…
Windows Update Error 0x80073712 means that there is some corruption in files that have been downloaded so you need to the old patches and possibly delete a pending updates. This is how you do it. If you still have problems there are three easy things to try: We have seen Read more…
If you’re having troubles running Windows Update or you see the error message: There is a system repair pending which requires reboot to complete. Restart and run SFC again there is an easy fix: Either in file explorer or via command line go to C:\Windows\WinSXS and if there is a Read more…
There are many things that can cause low volume on Windows 10 and Windows 11 and in this video we demonstrate six different causes of low audio volume and how to fix them on Windows 10 and 11. In our case the most interesting problem was Microsoft teams. Quite a Read more…
A number of websites will incorrectly tell you that the net view command has been deprecated and no longer works in windows. They are wrong. It is not deprecated and it still works. If it’s not working for you you have a networking issue and we can help you with Read more…
If you’re trying to browse your network either at home or in a company that’s running on a “workgroup”(i.e. not a corporate Active Directory Domain network) you may receive errors like: Network discovery is turned off. Network computers and devices are not visible. Please turn on network discovery in work Read more…