tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310041968365082112026-05-25T12:00:01.580-05:00Ramblings o' TechieThoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as wellrslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.comBlogger304125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-54447165530783719842024-07-15T10:10:00.001-05:002024-07-15T10:14:07.975-05:00Windows 11 and Windows 10 iPhone Photos Need HEVC or HEIC Codec - Free Fix I've had multiple people ask for help when it comes to viewing iPhone photos or videos on their Windows PC. The issue is that the photo and video format the iPhone uses requires an extra piece of software for the Windows computer to decode it. Sometimes your Windows PC comes with that software pre-installed so it just works right away. But other times you are left trying to track that rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-16158803030280973162019-05-17T14:19:00.002-05:002019-05-17T14:19:42.524-05:00Mac OS X ACL file sharing permissions nightmare and how to fix itIf you've ever had to set up a file share from within Mac OS X, you may have wanted to pull out your hair. Especially if you're trying to use account from somewhere like Windows Active Directory to grant access to the shares. I've struggled with share permissions on Macs for years, especially with permission inheritance or lack of it, but think I may have finally come across the solution.
One rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-53126906408183206712018-09-20T13:39:00.001-05:002018-09-20T13:39:44.966-05:00Mac OS X apps show question marks or damaged or incomplete errorI've ran into this with individual applications over the years, and can typically solve it with either a permission repair or reinstalling the app. Today I ran into this for ALL applications for a user. You couldn't run Terminal, Safari, Disk Utility... The only thing that appeared to be ok was Finder.
I logged into another account on the machine and everything worked fine. I ran the usual disk rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-44183616185313338322018-06-27T11:15:00.002-05:002018-06-27T11:15:49.628-05:00OneDrive "file wasn't uploaded... changes can't be merged" errorI ran into this with a user and thought it would be a relatively easy fix by telling Microsoft Excel to discard the changes. Unfortunately it took more than that, as the changes were cached for upload to OneDrive and discarding the changes from within Excel didn't remove the cached file. OneDrive doesn't control that file cache either. Instead, it's buried within another tool called the Microsoftrslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-49410458625338021512018-05-03T11:57:00.001-05:002018-05-03T11:57:48.978-05:00Time Machine "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk"I decided to start using Time Machine alongside Crashplan to make sure I had a local backup. Plus I'm backing up ~8TB of data on that particular Mac device so having a quick restore option makes a lot of sense.
I purchased a new Thunderbolt 3 drive with plenty of storage and set up Time Machine. Easy enough, right? It only took 2 days to get the initial backup and everything looked like it was rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-44723301394614003992018-05-02T08:35:00.000-05:002018-05-02T08:35:11.655-05:00Replace character in variable within batch scriptI wanted to rename a file using a batch script so it would replace underscores '_' with hyphens '-'. It was pretty easy
Set img1=this-was_the_original-name-of_the_file
Set newName=%img1:_=-%
echo %newName%
The key to doing it is the :_=- in the second line, which is saying take the text value stored in the variable img1 and make underscores instead equal hyphens. Now, you could make line 2 rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-84838448718302498782018-03-22T15:56:00.001-05:002018-03-22T16:02:36.772-05:00Exchange Resource room only shows who scheduled in OutlookApparently the default behavior of resources in Exchange is to replace the subject line with the organizer's name. I'm not going to argue whether or not that is pointless, but I will tell you how to fix it. It's a simple one-line powershell command you can run.
Make sure you connect to the Exchange (or Exchange Online) Powershell, and then run
Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity resourceName rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-28033740563580542442016-11-16T16:00:00.000-06:002016-11-16T16:00:24.220-06:00iPhone missed calls showing on second iPhoneIf you're sharing an Apple ID across multiple iPhones, you have likely ran into an issue at some point with one phone having something from the other phone. For this post we're talking specifically about missed call history.
If you have missed calls for one phone showing up on another phone, turn off iCloud Drive. You can do so by going into Settings->iCloud, then toggle the iCloud Drive rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-21716114985397337622016-09-12T15:43:00.000-05:002016-09-12T15:43:11.724-05:00Windows 7 stuck searching for updates foreverIf you've had to reinstall Windows 7, depending on how old your install media is you may run into this problem. Once Windows is installed and ready for updates, you tell it to search and it keeps searching, and searching, and searching... until you finally reboot or shutdown because it's been 5 hours and still nothing. I've ran into this a few times myself, and luckily I think I finally found a rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-9561958460791329382016-06-20T09:30:00.003-05:002016-06-20T09:30:48.889-05:00iPhone showing an unread text message but you can't find itEver see the notification on your Messages app, but have no luck finding it? Use Siri. Activate Siri, and then say "Read me my unread messages". Siri should then locate and read the unread message, after which the notification will go away.
I had a user that this happened to today. The odd thing was the message in question had been read and deleted already, but somehow hadn't been marked read so rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-54784105709772714782016-03-29T08:55:00.001-05:002016-03-29T08:55:21.689-05:00OS X Application Window not showing or visibleI recently had a user trying to open Acrobat Pro DC on a Mac laptop. The user would get the menu bar across the top, but could not see the application window on the screen to actually do anything. The trick was to go to Window->Zoom, which brought the app window back to normal on the screen. Either it has been zoomed out so much it was too small to see, or it had somehow gotten moved off the rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-31116038181742180522015-12-04T10:50:00.001-06:002015-12-04T10:50:27.694-06:00Messages menu options grayed out on OS XIf you're someone that manages your fonts more than a normal user, you may have run into this issue with the built-in Messages, or iMessage, app on OS X. My users couldn't sign in or access any of the app features. The reason behind it was really simple. The AppleGothic font that normally comes on the system is required for the Messages app to work correctly. Make sure you have it activated if rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-84107270723147791412015-10-07T16:17:00.000-05:002015-10-07T16:17:18.812-05:00Terminal server user cannot set default printerOk, I'll admit that this post is late to the party because I'm talking about Server 2003, which went EOL earlier this year. However, I'd guess that there are others like me that haven't eliminated it from their environment completely, and something similar may show up in the newer server OS versions, so here goes.
I had a couple of users who reported issues printing from their terminal server rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-43755048670875216472015-04-13T10:33:00.000-05:002015-04-13T10:33:34.900-05:00Export a list of categories and their parent from MagentoWe were looking for a way to create a product setup form for our Magento-based eCommerce site. One of the hangups was getting a list of all our categories so that we could create a dropdown for users to select the category name from, but that we could pull the category ID from then as well. There are some posts that I found which tell you how to export all the categories with the ID value, but I rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-87457490691662155142014-12-22T12:59:00.000-06:002014-12-22T12:59:38.223-06:00The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registryThe system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional storage requests will be ignored
If you get this error on a machine it's a major annoyance. There are plenty of potential issues as to why this may be happening, but I'm not going to get into those. This article is going to assume that the registry truly has reached it's breaking point through rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-18970645350417856622014-12-17T15:46:00.001-06:002014-12-17T15:46:20.981-06:00VMWare error: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was createdI needed to shrink the registry files on a ESXi guest (guest1), and in order to do so I shut it down and mounted the virtual disk on a separate ESXi guest (guest2). Once it was done, I removed the temporarily shared virtual disk from guest2 and went to boot guest1. I received an error that said "Cannot open disk: .... The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created". I then rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-18988695968027463412014-06-30T12:16:00.000-05:002015-10-23T15:08:57.859-05:00Install Symantec's Backup Exec 2010 Mac OS X agent in OS X 10.9 or 10.10Updated: 10/23/15
I reinstalled the OS on my OS X server and upgraded to 10.10 Yosemite. In that process I had to reinstall the Backup Exec agent, and I'm still running 2010. It was quick and simple, even though I ran into the same error about Switch.pm missing. Since it's been so long I looked it up rather than referring back to this post, and found an easier command than below on this blog. Inrslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-39642381204288313972014-06-09T10:53:00.000-05:002014-06-16T14:23:28.519-05:00Free up inactive memory in OS XLet me preface this by stating that normally you should not have to do this, and it is typically best to let the OS manage the RAM usage. I suggest you use this method only when necessary rather than as a standard practice. I'm also making an assumption that your familiar with the Terminal app, primarily in the situation where you want to schedule this. If you are not, you may need to do some rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-26466701347901791332014-05-19T09:16:00.000-05:002014-05-22T09:22:43.687-05:00OS X Active Directory Users losing admin privileges when offlineFor anyone using Directory Services in OS X to bind the Mac to a Windows domain, you've likely seen the option to allow administration by..., where you can define groups to administer the machine. I have a security group setup in Active Directory specifically for this, and whenever I bind the Mac to the domain I add that group and turn that option on. However, once in a while, when a machine is rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-33380844977395211592014-05-14T10:55:00.002-05:002014-05-14T10:55:48.630-05:00ProcessExplorer "Unable to extract 64-bit image" errorThe ProcessExplorer program is a very useful utility. I needed it today to track down a file lock, but upon trying to run it on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, I kept getting an error telling me "Unable to extract 64-bit image...". A few Google searches mentioned this being caused by a permissions error, but this didn't make sense since I'm an admin on the machine. After I ran across this on the&rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-79434611863774086482014-03-20T10:50:00.002-05:002014-03-20T10:50:33.631-05:00Toshiba Mobile LCD and IE 10 or 11 crashI have one user with a Toshiba Portege ultrabook, and it's been fine. He also wanted a Toshiba mobile LCD screen to bring along for more screen real estate. Eventually his machine started having issues with Internet Explorer, where IE would crash immediately upon opening. I assumed it was a corrupt IE install since IE 10 had just came out, but uninstalling/reinstalling IE 10 didn't help. IE 9 rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-88164563431042736082014-03-14T11:34:00.003-05:002014-03-14T11:34:52.108-05:00Configure VLAN(s) and enable routing on an HP Procurve switchIf you're running a managed HP Procurve switch and want to take advantage of VLANs to subnet your network, it's pretty easy. Here's a diagram of my example
In this example we have two VLANs (VLAN 1 and VLAN 2). VLAN 2 is setup just for workstations and must connect to VLAN 1 for DHCP, DNS, and Internet access.
In case the image is too small, on the switch, ports 1-24 are being rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-37177645123365169882013-10-31T13:50:00.000-05:002013-10-31T13:50:48.335-05:00Convert user mailbox to resource when using Exchange OnlineI am in the middle of a cutover migration from an Exchange 2003 environment to Exchange Online. One issue with the cutover is that all our resource mailboxes were imported as user mailboxes, rather than resources. Luckily, using PowerShell, it is easy to convert these and I only had ~10 so it was easy enough to do. If you have a lot of resource mailboxes to convert you may want to script it rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-18026568871391047932013-10-25T11:41:00.002-05:002013-10-25T11:41:59.769-05:00Cannot get mail connection to server is unavailable error on iOS deviceThe typical answers to this would be verify your username/password/server address, and make sure you have an active data connection and can access the server. However, I'm posting this because I ran across a very odd solution to this error message when those first two failed.
I had a user who could not receive any new emails on her iPhone 5 through an Exchange ActiveSync connection, yet she rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1431004196836508211.post-92080229826398749072013-10-03T14:04:00.001-05:002013-10-03T14:04:46.424-05:00Error while trying to export to PST using Export-Mailbox on Exchange 2007This is probably valid for more than just Exchange 2007, but that's the version I was working on where I ran into the problem. After finally getting myself setup with a machine running a 32-bit Windows OS, and with both Exchange Management Tools and Outlook 2007 installed, I tried running my Export-Mailbox command. No go, and in checking the migration log file the error looked something like:
rslyghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08901992599054849382noreply@blogger.com0