Now that Outlook has integrated with Windows 10 notifications, some users are finding that the notifications don’t show up right away like they did when Outlook was taking care of…
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Recently my Windows 10 Home workstation ran into a problem with high CPU utilization caused by CompatTelRunner.exe. This appears to be a very common problem with some posts on Microsoft.com…
Windows Server 2008 (SP2) & 2008 R2 (SP1) will reach End of Extended Support on 1/14/2020 Microsoft has announced the end of extended support date for Windows Server 2008 (service...
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My wife has a new iPad Pro on the way, which means I will inherit her 10.5” iPad Pro. I’m really looking forward to going back to using an iPad…
Microsoft has been enormously successful in keeping Windows 10 users on the current version of Windows 10 (there have been four updates so far, with a fifth one due in...
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Removing Assigned Drive Letter Added During Installation of 2018-05 Cumulative update for Windows 10
In early May, Microsoft released the “2018-05 Cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1803 for x64-based Systems (KB4103721). https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/may-8-2018-kb4103721-os-build-17134-48-04b53c10-b34d-6acf-accf-3b4941a05745 When testing the deployment of the update to some test systems,…
I recently had a client project that involved upgrading their Active Directory to Windows 2016. Their domain and functional levels were both Windows 2000 (!) so we had to do…
Microsoft’s Edge browser gets no respect. At the time of this writing, it’s still sitting at about 5% market share, meaning only one in 20 people use it as their…
Starting with vCenter 6.5, there are a couple of new steps required for deployment; here is a brief summary. For this deployment we are using the latest 6.5 VCSA, which…
Working on internal patching, I ran into an issue when attempting to upgrade vCenter 6.0 to 6.5. In the past, migrating from Windows-based vCenter to Linux-based Virtual Center Server Appliance…
