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Working from home challenges–My computer clock is fast.

Posted onMay 9, 2020May 6, 2020

We have most of our workforce currently working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of our customers have reported this: My (Windows 10) Read More …

CategoriesWindows, Working From Home

USB Type C, USB Type A and Canon scanners–they do not work.

Posted onFebruary 11, 2020February 7, 2020

My (newest) Canon scanner has a USB Type C (USB-C) plug. The supplied cable is a USB-C to USB Type A cable. My laptop only Read More …

CategoriesHardware, Windows

Saturday Link Roundup – Bitlocker Edition

Posted onOctober 27, 2018October 17, 2020

How to backup recovery information in AD after BitLocker is turned ON in Windows 7 Manually Backup BitLocker Recovery Key to AD How to Script Read More …

CategoriesSecurity, Windows

Saturday Link Roundup – Remote Desktop Edition

Posted onOctober 27, 2018October 17, 2020

Secure RDS (Remote Desktop Services) Connections with SSL Removing Self-Signed RDP Certificates Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) – Certificate Warnings Are My RDP Connections Really Secured Read More …

CategoriesWindows

Why writing is blocked to C:\Program Files, and some other locations.

Posted onAugust 21, 2018October 7, 2020

It’s the Data Redirection feature that was introduced with Windows Vista, in November 2006. Data Redirection – beginning with Windows Vista, standard users have restricted Read More …

CategoriesVista, Windows

Windows 10 and Office 365 update lists

Posted onAugust 16, 2018October 7, 2020

The following are sites are where Microsoft list changes to Windows 10 & Office 365 Office 365 Overview of update channels for Office 365 ProPlus Read More …

CategoriesMicrosoft Office, Windows, Windows 10

The strange case of … Applocker blocking

Posted onNovember 14, 2017November 15, 2017

On our “standard” workstations we have enabled Microsoft Applocker, which blocks unauthorised software from being installed. We also have “Unrestricted” workstations, where there is no Read More …

CategoriesAppLocker, WindowsTagsAppLocker

“Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer”

Posted onJune 7, 2017June 6, 2017

Quick answer: In Windows 7/8/10, we use a third-party Credential Provider, and it was blocking LOCAL (ie. not Domain) accounts from logging on.  Removing the Read More …

CategoriesIt's A Bug, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7TagsCredential Provider, GINA

List of video file extensions to search with Agent Ransack

Posted onApril 7, 2017October 9, 2020

*.avi;*.asf;*.mov;*.qt;*.avchd;*.flv;*.swf;*.mpg;*.mpeg;*.mp4;*.divx *.iso

CategoriesWindows

Today I learnt about FIPS and SHA1

Posted onJanuary 27, 2017January 27, 2017

System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at …. When I say “learnt”, it was more Read More …

CategoriesCode Cutting, WindowsTagsSHA1, Windows

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