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Issue All changes to Windows Firewall (application, port rules, etc.) stop working and disappear from UI few seconds after they were added. The same happens if Windows Firewall is disabled completely – few seconds later it gets re-enabled. Following Info…
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Folder Redirection Fails. Event ID 502 – Access is denied
Issue Applying folder redirection to Documents and other folders fails when Group Policy is trying to automatically create required folders. Following error is logged in Application Logs on client PCs: Event ID: 502Level: ErrorDescription: Failed to apply policy and redirect folder…
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SonicWall Content Filter doesn’t block Youtube on Google Chrome (QUIC)
Issue SonicWall Content Filter is setup to allow all web access during lunch break time, but block all non-work related websites for the rest of the day. Mostly this works as expected, but some users are able to access Youtube…
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Manage Google Chrome Settings via Group Policy
If you allow Google Chrome on your network, you can customise and configure various settings via Group Policy.
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Remove ads from Viber Desktop
Recently Viber started displaying ads in Windows Desktop version. I don’t have issues with non-intrusive ads that don’t interfere with user experience, but Viber ads cover a good part of contact panel and often are quite flashy images with questionable…
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ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk The entry is not a supported disk database entry…
Issue Converting VMware vmdk disks to Hyper–V vhdx using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 PowerShell module (ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk) fails with error: ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : The entry 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor…
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Create Child Apple ID with Gmail as login ID (or any other non iCloud email)
If you want to create an Apple ID for a child under 13 years old you have to do it on your own Apple device in Family Sharing. One disadvantage in doing it this way is that you are forced to create…
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Resetting Password for APC PowerChute Business Edition
Issue Server Administrator forgot / lost APC PowerChute password and can no longer access UPS software.
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Installing LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S7
I used below instructions to flash LineageOS on a stock Samsung Galaxy S7 (herolte, arm64, exynos 8890). no rooting was required. If you intend to follow these instructions, do this at your own risk – this will surely delete all data on your…
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Outlook rule action “have server reply using a specific message” doesn’t work
Issue Outlook rule that performs action “have server reply using a specific message” doesn’t work properly. The reply gets delivered for internal senders, but never reaches external senders. Email server is running Microsoft Exchange 2010.
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Send Automatic Replies (Out of Office) to external recipients only
Outlook / Exchange Out of Office Auto-Reply system allows to send automatic replies to either internal senders only (Inside My Organization) or internal and external senders (Outside My Organization). There is no option to send auto responses to external senders only. As a…
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Relay via Office 365 stopped working – Client host blocked using Spamhaus
Issue Relaying email via Office 365 suddenly stopped working. Relayed emails were sent from a Windows 2012 Server using a simple PowerShell script. After logging in to the server and running the PowerShell script in an interactive mode following error…