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  • Issue After installing Windows Updates on a Windows Server 2008R2 server, Veritas Backup Exec Administrative Console crashes on launch with the following error. BackupExec has stopped workingDetails:Problem signature:  Problem Event Name:    CLR20r3  Problem Signature 01:    BackupExec.exe  Problem Signature…

  • DELL iDRAC 6 virtual console runs on Java and has always been a major pain in the backside. Almost every Java update breaks something, and who wants to install Java these days anyway… I recently had to revisit this topic.…

  • Issue The following error appears when the user tries to sign in to their Microsoft Office 365 account in Microsoft Outlook. Something went wrong. Your organization has deleted this device. To fix this, contact your system administrator and provide the…

  • Microsoft Outlook doesn’t have a built-in way to modify plain-text email signatures. They are automatically generated from the normal HTML signature by removing all formatting and images. To edit plain text signatures:

  • Microsoft Outlook Personal Stationery HTML Themes suddenly stopped working for some users (File > Options > Mail > Stationary and Fonts > Theme). People who had their themes selected from before and didn’t touch the settings were not affected. However,…

  • Sometimes I need to create a WordPress website clone for testing purposes. This normally goes onto a subdomain, i.e. if the main website is mysite.com, the temporary test version will be dev.mysite.com. If you simply restore the website, including the…

  • Issue Cannot import SQL database extracted from Plesk web server backup. The following error is displayed in phpMyAdmin: Static analysis:…errors were found during analysis.Unexpected character. (near “” at position…)

  • To increase the upload file size limit in phpMyAdmin running on the Plesk / CentOS 7 server you need to modify the  /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini configuration file:

  • Denon AVR-X2800H is a 2-zone AVR. This allows you to independently play and control sound in two different rooms/zones. Unfortunately, this feature has some limitations.

  • Issue Microsoft Exchange Office 365 email account in MS Outlook stopped receiving and sending emails. The following error is shown for Send/Receive tasks: Outlook Send/Receive Progress 0 of 1 Tasks have completed successfully Task ’email@domain.com’ – Sending’ reported error (0x80040115):…

  • Apple in watchOS10 removed the ability to quickly swipe between watch faces on the home screen. For some, it’s an improvement (as it was very easy to accidentally change faces), for others it’s a massive issue (if you were intentionally…

  • To quickly find whether individual users have MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) configured: