• Apple Photos on Mac OS 10.11 (El. Capitan). Some photos have mixed up thumbnails. Basically this means that preview thumbnail is one photo, but when a user double clicks on the thumbnail, a completely different photo is displayed…

  • Android Studio suddenly (and for no apparent reason) started complaining that it could not find org.apache.http.legacy (which was added to build.gradle as a legacy library). Warning: Unable to find optional library: org.apache.http.legacy The issue was caused by a missing optional.json file that was supposed to…

  • Issue A project no longer compiles in Android Studio after switching from Android SDK v22 to v23. The compiler complains that it can not resolve symbol HttpClient, or that package org.apache.http does not exist.

  • Setup DELL SonicWALL NSA 220 wireless-N LAN and WLAN interfaces Bridged (on the same subnet) Issue Streaming protocols that rely on multicast (such as Apple Bonjour/AirPlay and DLNA/UPNP) don’t work between devices that span LAN and WLAN zones. If all devices are…

  • Not long after a broken Windows Update that caused MS Office to crash opening HTML content, Microsoft pushed another bad update. This time, it’s KB3114409, which forces MS Outlook to start in Safe Mode with no way to return to normal mode.

  • There are number of ways to remove OneDrive from Windows 10. Option 1 – Prevent OneDrive from starting with Windows This method does not actually removes OneDrive from the computer, but simply prevents from automatically starting on login. Right click on OneDrive icon…

  • Here are steps I use to renew MS Exchange 2007 trusted Rapid SSL certificate: On the Exchange Server open IIS 7 Manager (Internet Information Services)   Go to Server name > Server Certificates In Actions panel click on Create Certificate Request Fill all certificate…

  • I use PicPick screenshot capture tool all the time and was quite surprised when one morning following message popped-up: PicPick cannot register the following hot keys.Capture Full-screen (PrintScreen)Capture Active Window (Alt + PrintScreen)Capture Window Control (Ctrl + PrintScreen)Capture Scrolling Window (Ctrl…

  • If you don’t use OneDrive, there is no need to have its folder taking space in File Explorer’s Navigation Pane.

  • This morning multiple users started complaining that their Microsoft Outlook was crashing when trying to create a new email. Replies and forwards were not affected. After some troubleshooting, involving Outlook safe mode, disabling add-ins, creating new profiles, etc. I found that…

  • Last weekend I had a small task to update BIOS and other firmware on a non-mission critical DELL PowerEdge T310 server. To safe myself a site visit I decided to to do this remotely via iDRAC. I initially planned to run the updates from DELL…

  •   Download Windows (.exe) version of iDRAC update utility from DELL. Extract the downloaded .exe file (with 7-zip or something similar).