If you have a problematic Upgrade entry in WSUS, you may want to remove it. The next time you perform a sync with Microsoft, it will re-appear. In my case, I had problems with “Windows 10 Pro, version 1607, RETAIL” and …
If you have a Juniper / Pulse Secure VPN device and you use the Host Checker to confirm that connecting PC’s have an Anti Virus on them, you will eventually have a situation in which you need to allow and AV …
If you have a microphone that is not working on a Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Mitel UCA) you likely have to remove the TELEWORKER GATEWAY setting. Before making any changes, test your microphone is working by: click START and type …
Macros in Word, Excel and PowerPoint used to be one of the most common attack vectors but they largely died out near 2010. In 2016 they are being used aggressively in Crypto/Ransomware attacks and you may want to disable them. …
If you had a PC that was on a corporate network and had Domain Group Policies applied to it, you may still see: SOME SETTINGS ARE CONTROLLED BY YOUR ORGANIZATION This can appear in many places but the most common …
If you are trying to understand how modern disk storage works, you can get quickly confused by all the acronyms. NAS, SAN, RAID10, RAID 5, iSCSI… get overwhelming. Fortunately, these terms can be easily explained. Based on a number of questions we …
If you see transfer speeds bouncing up and down on any system (Windows PC, Linux Server, network appliance, NAS disk, firewall, router…), the most likely cause is at the physical layer. That means that you likely have a bad cable, …
If you have an Android cell or tablet that has stopped automatically receiving email, there are several places to investigate. The very first thing you should do is power down the cell / tablet, then power it back up and see if …
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UPDATE JAN 2022 : You may be interested in our 2018 How to Fix WSUS tips: Easy SQL Commands To Clean Up WSUS Database Quickly WSUS Reset Server Node WSUSPool in IIS Stops Repeatedly If your Windows Server Update Services …
Bitcoin is becoming more well known, and the crypto-currency will be accepted by an online healthcare business that is based out of Canada. Ask The Doctor is soon to become the first healthcare enterprise that accepts bitcoin. The service is …
If you run a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server, you know that sometimes it can develop problems. Specifically the WSUS database can need a manual clean up. There are several scripts around that handle this but I found one …
Updated: January 2022 If you cannot complete a clean up of your WSUS server through the WSUS console because it keeps erroring out with SERVER NODE RESET, you can hopefully complete through the following PowerShell command line: Invoke-WsusServerCleanup -DeclineSupersededUpdates -DeclineExpiredUpdates …
This frustrating problem took me nearly 3 weeks to work out with the good staff at Microsoft Partner Support. As you can see in the screen shot, Windows 10 1607 (aka Anniversary) does not display SOME SETTINGS ARE MANAGED BY …
Version 6 of Mitel’s Unified Communications agent now called MiCollab has had troubles connecting to the MAS / MGB server on Windows 10 since the early summer of 2016. As you can see in the screenshot to the right it …
If you are trying to find the most current Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Unified Communicator Advanced UCA) on the internet, you are looking in the wrong place. You already have it. It is stored on your Mitel MAS server. To …