File Validation Add-In for Office 2007
I’m installing Office 2007 on a Windows 10 virtual machine in the hopes of opening some old Word 5.x files. Windows Update installed quite a few security updates, but the …
Remote Desktop Can’t Connect after Update to 2004
Today I applied the 2004 update to several Windows 10 Enterprise computers in a small domain. Although I did the updates mostly over RDP, soon a user reported that he …
Structure of COM Error Codes
A 2013 comment on this StackOverflow question was enlightening: by converting a long decimal error (in this case 2147942667) to hex (0x8007010B), you can break out the actual error code …
3CX and the Secret DND Feature
With a 3CX 16 SP5 installation, all calls to a user were being diverted to voicemail. Verbose logging showed that the system thought the extension had DND enabled, but the …
Hardening LDAP in Server 2016 Essentials
If you run a fully patched Windows Server Essentials 2016, you’ve probably been seeing this event in your daily Health Report since around March 2020:
Format a Sharp MX-3570N Hard Disk
Many copiers have hard disks, which over the years may accumulate confidential information, which may or may not get wiped on deletion. When a Sharp MX-3570N was about to be …
Windows Defender 99% CPU at Logon
Just logged on to a Windows Server 2016 Essentials machine for the first time in a couple days. Windows Defender immediately kicked off a Full Scan, basically bringing the server …
UniFi Server Reject after Moving Switch
A customer was consolidating two offices into one. Both were on the same UniFi controller. Each office had its own USG and its own range of IP addresses. I needed …
Generating PDF Thumbnails with Bitnami WordPress
I’m running Bitnami’s WordPress on a Microsoft Azure Ubuntu machine. It seems the default setup does not support the WordPress 4.7 feature to automatically generate PDF thumbnails on upload.
Some WSUS Maintenance
I use WSUS at a small-ish site (14 clients). The WSUS server runs on the same machine as Server 2016 Essentials. For quite a while, the server has not been …