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Azure Backup Job Failed 0x1D4C2

Lately we’ve been getting a lot of inquiries regarding Azure Backup. One customer tried to set up the Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) agent, they experienced a problem where the backup job fails immediately…

Uninstall all Java versions

I received an inquiry from one of my mid-size (100-200 users) customers today. They’ve been planning on implementing a new online service which requires the latest Java version.

The clients have a large quantity of outdated versions of Java, which needed to be uninstalled before we deployed the newest version.
They are currently running Windows 7 and Windows 8, so somewhat modern operative systems.

Office365 Safe Attachment Delay Report

Recently the Helpdesk have been getting cases about slow delivery times due to Office 365 ATP Safe Attachments. We have created a script to retrieve the data from Exchange Online, and then used Power BI to visualize it.

Installing .NET Framework on Windows 8 and 2012

I have been struggling a bit with adding .NET Framework 3.5 on a few systems (and reference image for MDT). The posts on MSDN and TechNet are good, but not always crystal clear.

Here is how I solved the issues we were experiencing…

Azure Backup Mail Report Script

Jocha previously released a very popular mail report-script for Windows Backup. A downside with the new Azure backup-agent is that it did not offer mail reports… until today!

Special characters in HTML

Special characters in HTML

When you want to write special characters in a HTML document sometimes it will interpret it as code. Heres a list of the most commonly used characters and what to replace them with.

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

Today I implemented Fancybox on the site. Although Wordpress had to be hacked a bit for this to work. By default WP will add a bunch of weird classes and properties that will screw up plugins. This is how I managed to fix it.

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

A customer of ours asked us to look into making their environment more secure. However we noticed that they did not audit Group/User changes in their Active Directory, we adjusted this and here’s a quick guide how to deploy it in your corporation.

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

After installing Windows Server 2012 and booting up you are welcomed by the new, greatly improved Server Manager.
This new tool is however not compatible with previous server versions out-of-box.

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Yesterday I migrated our main file server to Windows Server 2012.
Noticed that Access-based enumeration was not working, I couldnt find the setting to re-enable it, or any good information on the web as to where it had gone.

Could not find an available image BootImageID

Could not find an available image BootImageID

After setting up Windows 7 x64 I was asked to verify that SCCM would work for 32-bit aswell. However after pressing F12 the TS would not start.
When checking SMSPXE.log I found the following…

RDP dying after Windows 2008 R2 SP1 update

RDP dying after Windows 2008 R2 SP1 update

Ran into this problem this morning when installing Service Pack 1 for Windows 2008 R2. Service Pack installs successfully, but after we couldn’t login via remote desktop services. The fix was easy to deploy…

Volume Shadow Copy and DHCP issue

Volume Shadow Copy and DHCP issue

After installing DHCP on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start to see an error message in the event logs. Inspection of the detailed tab of the event log entry will show information about the process that generated the error…