Enroll in Azure AD with error 8018000a
The 801800A issue is usually caused by a Windows client thinking it has a enrollment to Azure AD in progress. It will not “time out” so you will have to manually fix this…
Disable Windows 10 Automatic locking screen
We’ve been upgrading a customers environment… for one of their workstation configurations they didn’t want the computers to lock on idle, which is enforced by default.
Disable Hardware Acceleration in Outlook 2013
Not all computers work better with hardware acceleration, especially those with incompatible drivers.
A couple of users contacted me asking about “white screens” and freezes in Outlook 2013. The simple solution is to disable the hardware acceleration…
Installing HP branded Windows on a Virtual server
My customer has bought a Hewlett-Packard server with a Windows Server 2012 ROK (Reseller Option Kit) license.
However this customer had some issues with the installation of the license on the Hyper-V guest server. Since the Windows server does not recognize the ‘hardware’ as a Proliant server, licensing will not succeed.
However there is a simple solution…
Force an Address Book Refresh on Lync Client
I ran into a situation where I needed to force the address book to refresh on a computer that had the Lync client installed. The process to do so isn’t well documented, so I decided to create this post in case anyone else has a similar requirement. Here’s how you force the address book to refresh on a Lync Client.
Windows 2008 wont use Trusted Sites
Today I ran into an issue with Internet Explorer on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
I have a GPO that pushes Local Intranet and Trusted sites but they would not be visible through the GUI in Internet Options.
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…
Problems starting WDS after PXE is enabled in SCCM
After setting up a new DHCP server I enrolled the DP role and enabled PXE. However the WDS role would not start, giving me Error 0x2740.
User Profile Service failed the logon
Occasionally, Windows might not read your user profile correctly. Profiles can get corrupted, it’s not really a big deal…
Remove Windows Browser Choice
I’ve recently stumbled upon the Browser Choice-problem. We do not want this patch deployed on our clients…
