Create a Secure-Bootable UEFI USB Drive
The installation ISO for Server 2016 is about 5.8GB, so it won’t fit on a a standard DVD. I needed to create a USB drive that would boot with the …
Changing Office 365 Deleted Items Retention
I had a lot of difficulty changing the deleted items retention in Office 365 Exchange from the default 14 days to 30. I would change it but it still showed …
Batch Convert PDF to PDF/A – 2018 Edition
This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013. I’m developing a paperless workflow for my home and office. I want to save all my documents …
Use CutePDF to Print to PDF/A for Free – 2018 Edition
This is a major revision of an article that I wrote in 2013. My paperless workflow creating PDF/A files was doing fine until about a year ago. I was using …
Malwarebytes Premium Trial Blocks MSP Anywhere
I use Solarwinds MSP Anywhere to connect to client computers. Yesterday from one of my Windows 10 Pro machines, I couldn’t connect to any of them. I’d get a brief …
Un-Brick a Jabra 9470 Headset After a Failed Firmware Update
Updating my 9470’s firmware to 4.7.0 yesterday via Jabra Direct failed. The 9470 screen was white and the 9470 was not listed in Device Manager under “Sound, video and game …
Where Is Smart Queue Now?
As of controller 5.8.28 and probably earlier, UniFi has moved some key USG settings off of the device and into the main section of the controller. Unfortunately, the latest Enterprise …
NAT Problem with AT&T u-Verse Modem
I have u-Verse through a Pace 5031NV-030 modem. Sometimes I swap out routers to test one function or another. This always means that I have to log in to the …
Configure the Windows Firewall for MediaShout Remote
Update September 12, 2018 This article has been re-written based on a (hopefully) better understanding of how MediaShout interacts with the Windows Firewall. MediaShout offers instructions here for setting up …
When Does a Windows 10 Deferral Period Start?
I have non-WSUS Windows 10 Pro machines set to defer feature upgrades for 120 days. So when does the 120-day counter start?