Check Hard Disk Drive before it fails
When it comes to computers, the greatest fear is having your hard drive fail and losing all your data. Think about this for a moment. How devastated would you be if you lost all...
Author: George Almeida
System Volume Information taking too much disk space
If all of a sudden you find yourself fighting a disk space issue on your server or servers where the System Volume Information is taking too much disk space on a particular partition, then...
Slow PC – 10 Steps to a healthy computer
I decided to update and edit this post because I still run into so many folks that give up on their computers which, in some cases, are only 2 – 3 years old because...
WSUS – Automatically patch servers
Applying Microsoft security patches to servers can be a tedious and thankless job, especially if you have several hundred servers scattered all over the network. Depending on how large your organization is, this can...
WordPress Invalid Server Response Windows Live Writer
Problems with connecting to your blog using Windows Liver Writer or Microsoft Word can be frustrating. One minute your using Windows Live Writer or Microsoft Word to create and publish your blogs and the...
Blogging with Word 2010
Recently I posted an article on how much I liked Windows Live Writer 2012 (WLW). I felt this was probably the best free desktop blog editing software available. Unfortunately, there have been no enhancements...
SCNotification.exe–This application could not be started
The dreaded SCNotification.exe error! Everyone who has SCCM implemented in their environment has run into this annoying issue at one time or another. There are several things that can cause this error. The scnotification...
Windows Terminal Server Printer Substitution
I had to dig deep into the archives the other day when a customer, who was connecting to an older terminal server on a Windows Terminal Server 2003 server, began having problems printing. The...
Should I buy a desktop or laptop?
This is an older post back from a couple of years ago that I decided to dust off and add a little more information to it. Nothing better to do during a snow storm...
Account Lockout Caller Computer Name Blank
Troubleshooting an Active Directory account lockout when the Caller Computer Name is blank can be a pain. In a past post, we discussed how to troubleshoot an AD account that keeps getting locked. The...
Why some websites won’t load in IE?
Sometimes there are certain websites that won’t load properly or just don’t look right when using Internet Explorer (IE). If I use a different web browser, the same website might work just fine. Why...
Install SCCM 2012 agent in DMZ
If you find yourself attempting to install the SCCM 2012 agent and the Endpoint Protection 2012 agent on a server in the DMZ, follow these instructions to protect your DMZ servers. Also, if you...