There is a significant outage this morning affecting many computers. A recent update from CrowdStrike has resulted in a widespread outage, impacting numerous systems with a Blue Screen of Death. The issue stems from the Falcon sensor update.
On a Dell server running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Dell RAID with the latest Dell updates you may see a warning about: “Driver version is out of date.” – Firmware Version 5B2D Driver Version 6.46.2.32 Storport Driver Version 5.2.3790.4021 Minimum Required Storport Driver Version 5.2.3790.4173 – This warning is dues to the Microsoft StorPort … Read more
How to create email alerts for backups in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 – Backups are one of those things that often get neglected until you need to restore something. This is what getting alerts to put the problems in front of you are so important for backup systems. The … Read more
Procedure for clearing the TaskScheduler og in Windows. It seems to be an on-going oversite and a silly issue. Clearing the Task Scheduler log is not obvious or intuitive. The other problem is the log in not ordered properly. To clear the log requires stopping the Task Scheduler service. There are a couple ways … Read more
Microsoft Windows XP End of Life and Retirement Dates. History of Windows XP retirement Windows XP, one of Microsoft’s most popular operating systems, officially reached its end of life on April 8, 2014. This marked the end of extended support, following the end of mainstream support on April 14, 2009. Over its lifecycle, various editions … Read more
Using Skype, if you can make calls and others can hear you but you cannot hear them, check if your phone is on silent of vibrate. Skype seems to use the same volume as playing MP3 or the ringing. Turning up the volume fixed it for me after driving me crazy for almost … Read more
We have found a really annoying and recurring problem on some of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. The Hyper-V virtual machines will not start after a reboot. You cannot create or mount virtual drives in Disk Management. The problem seems to randomly appear after a reboot. The problem also appears to be related to either Adaptec … Read more
How to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. I have been asked a lot of questions about how to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem is you can go into the … Read more
One annoying problem with Remote Assistance it the mapping of the ESC key. Pressing the ESC key ends your control of the remote computer requiring you to request control again. I use Microsoft Windows Remote Assistance once in a while to remotely support some users. It generally works pretty well if you do not have … Read more
NTLM authentication If your account is configured to use NTLM authentication and you are still prompted for your user name and password when you are logged on as the Windows account that has access to your Exchange mailbox, you must set the LmCompatibilityLevel on your client to a value of 2 or 3. … Read more