Errors after Server Essentials Local Certificate Renewal
Last week, I got an email from my monitoring system that a certificate on a Server 2012 R2 Essentials machine was about to expire. I tracked it down to the …
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Check and Change PHP Version in Azure WordPress on Linux
I’ve been testing setting up WordPress on Linux as an Azure Web App. Checking and setting the PHP version has been quite a challenge. Here’s how I finally got it …
M365 External Forwarding to Ticketing etc. Requires New Setting
Until recently, you could set up an inbox rule in Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) that would automatically forward emails e.g., to a ticketing system or to a cell phone. …
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 …