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  • If you first domain controller within a domain was running Windows Server 2008 or later you should be using DFS-R (Distributed File System Replication). If you upgraded from Windows 2003 domain, there is a big chance that you are still…

  • Issue VMware ESXi 5.5.0 datastore does not mount automatically after VM host server is rebooted. You can obviously manually add the datastore, but this doesn’t resolve the main issue, which is that all VMs hosted on that datastore go offline if VM…

  • Foscam IP cameras use NPAPI Chrome plugin that by default is disabled in Google Chrome starting version 42. Even if Foscam plugin is installed, you will get following messages: This site uses a plugin (application/ipcam-regplugin) that is unsupported.Plugins are not…

  • Issue Pervasive SQL services (Pervasive PSQL Relational Engine and Pervasive PSQL Transactional Engine) don’t start automatically after server reboot, even though Startup Type was set to Automatic.

  • If you want a non-admin user to be able to remotely reboot servers (with shutdown -m command), but don’t have other admin rights, you can achieve this with a single group policy change. If you want this to apply to…

  • I have recently moved to Sony mirrorless camera and started using Capture One from Phase One. And here is a little issue that took me some time to figure out: When you select multiple images in Capture One browser and click Delete…

  • Once you setup a backup job on Windows 7 machine, you can edit the job settings of disable the schedule, but there is no obvious way to delete the backup job completely.

  • Sending Rich Text Format (RTF) messages from MS Outlook to the outside world often results in recipients receiving winmail.dat attachments. I have previously written how to resolve this on the client side. If you are an Exchange server administrator you can…

  • Bumped into a little issue while deploying Adobe Reader DC via Group Policy. Installation was customized using Adobe Customization Wizard (which generates .mst transforms file). All online features, EULA, and similar distractions were disabled. However, on a test machine, after launching Adobe Reader…

  • All steps need to be completed on a Mac computer. Download Mac OS X (Yosemite) from Apple App Store

  • Issue After upgrading Google Play Services from 6.1.11 to 7.5.0, bunch of new permissions are automatically added to the application’s manifest. The app actually only uses Admob (Google Mobile Ads) libraries from Google Play Services and permissions such as “ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION”,…

  • One of the coolest new Google Photos features is “Group similar faces“, which automatically detects faces in photos and groups them in “people” albums. Unfortunately, this option at the moment is only available in the US. The good news is that…