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Had an issue today in outlook where the sign-in window to add the credentials kept on disappearing, little bit annoying for the user as no emails were coming through. Tracked it down to a registry change, once this was added the login box popped up as normal. Go to the registry editor (Win+R; regedit)   go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft ->Office -> 16.0 ->Common -> Identity   Inside "Identity", create a new REG_DWORD value called "EnableADAL" and leave the value at 0   the login window is slightly different but it works :)   Buy me a beer :)  

The Problem Terminal service grace period has expired This in turn prevents any remote desktop connection to the server, which is a problem if this is how you connect to the server. I had to do a remote registry to the server and then remote reboot. The Solution There is a registry key located HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod Inside that container will be a binary key, all you need to do is delete that key and reboot the server, upon reboot everything should be working again. Buy me a beer :)  

When your server is display system model Null in the SMH this is because your agents are not installed correctly. I found the best place to get your agents is here https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_44340a785c7640afa24634c39f once downloaded install and reopen the HSM your system model should now be showing the details you need.

I had a n issue with a PC not seeing mapped drives within an old program on windows 10. Their software support had no answers so found the below fix, 1. Open regedit 2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> System 3. On the right, you will see ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin,... etc. 4. click on empty space, ADD DWORD(32bit), then name it "EnableLinkedConnections". Double click it and set the data to 1. 5. Reboot and you will see the mapped drives showing This gave me my mapped drives back within the software!

So the most annoying thing about windows 10 if you use lots of VPN's is the fact its now 4 steps to get connected, very annoying. If you want to fix this then please do the below. Open regedit (WIN+R and type regedit.exe) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Settings\Network Take ownership of the “Network” key/folder (right click, Permissions) Select “Advanced” in the Permissions window In the Advanced window, select “Change” where the owner field is (at the top of the window) Type in your username and save your changes. Close the advanced window Now select “Administrators” in the security tab Make sure “Full control” is selected, then apply changes Now that’s done, double click “ReplaceVan” Change it’s value to 2 Enjoy connecting and disconnecting from your VPNs in one place! After doing the above you get the same interface for VPN's as you did in windows 8 ie bottom right hand corner near the clock, and they a...

So I had a HP Probook 450 G1 which was losing network connection quite often, like every 10 mins after searching around I found that it was infact a BIOS problem. HP advise to upgrade the BIOS to 1.20 from the base 1.05 link here http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_136070_1&swEnvOid=4059 Also upgrade the driver version for the wireless card from the 2013 version to the 2015 version http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_148570_1&swEnvOid=4059 have not had a disconnection since.

in an elevated command prompt run the following command "vssadmin list writers" The Vss writers will be displayed, if any are showing a failed state check the list below and restart the correct service via services.msc ASR Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy BITS Writer BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service COM+ REGDB Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy DFS Replication service writer DFSR DFS Replication DHCP Jet Writer DHCPServer DHCP Server FRS Writer NtFrs File Replication FSRM writer srmsvc File Server Resource Manager IIS Config Writer AppHostSvc Application Host Helper Service IIS Metabase Writer IISADMIN IIS Admin Service Microsoft Exchange Writer MSExchangeIS Microsoft Exchange Information Store Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer vmms Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management NTDS NTDS Active Directory Domain Services OSearch VSS Writer OSearch Office SharePoint Server Search OSearch14 VSS Writer OSearch14 SharePoint Server Search 14 Registry Writer VSS Volume Sh...