by Dean | Nov 19, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Microsoft
While setting up a mixed environment server I was continually annoyed by the MAC machines adding those hidden files into the Windows File Shares. (You know the ones the .DS_Store, ._.DS_Store, .Trashes, ._Filename) After considering a few possibilities such as a...
by Dean | Mar 29, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, Security, Tutorial, Virtualisation
Now that I have my remote access machine up and running it is time to install the VPN modules into it to get remote access to my network. In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to use IPSEC/L2TP VPN. After some thought and investigation I decided to change...
by Dean | Feb 10, 2014 | Error, General IT, IT, Microsoft, Skydrive
There is a lot of talk about issues with Sky Drive and Windows 8.1. Came across one issue where the metro app worked fine, but sync was not occurring between Sky Drive and the local machine. The customer reported that it was working fine a few days ago, and that there...
by Dean | Jan 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, IT
The following can be used in a batch script to check if a system is 64Bit or 32Bit. @echo off :START REM SYSTEM Check IF EXIST %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\NUL GOTO :64BIT goto :32BIT :64BIT REM Run 64bit command goto :END :32BIT REM Run 32bit command goto :END :END Just add the...
by Dean | Dec 20, 2013 | General IT, IT
Had a server recently that needed to have Power shell re-installed onto the server. After performing the re-install a heap of strange errors starting to occur on the server. The main one that triggered the alert of is that the Exchange Management Console...
