SECURITY • 4 MIN READ
Alyssa Pugh
Manually Resetting an APC Smart-UPS Battery Constant After New Battery Replacement
I came across a Smart UPS 1500 that needed a battery replacement recently. After the replacement battery was installed, I ran a self-test li...
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Alyssa Pugh
How-to Open Each Excel Spreadsheet in a New Instance
In Windows XP there was the advanced file type options which could be changed to open each Excel file in a new instance of Excel. In Windows 7...
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Alyssa Pugh
Fixing an Application That Appears in Task Bar but Doesn't Open
Sometime back while I was out of the office, my system crashed with a blue screen message about a hard drive failure. Fortunately, I was abl...
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Alyssa Pugh
Robocopy /SECFIX parameter
I have been working with a customer on a file server and domain migration project. The original plan was to move the files to our Aspire dat...
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Alyssa Pugh
Block Outlook Web Access and Exchange Control Panel access from external addresses
In most of our Exchange environments, we'll have port 443 open to the outside for ActiveSync and Outlook Anywhere. When you do that, you'll ...
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Alyssa Pugh
Apple Mac OS X start wireless before login
Like many new laptops, the new Apple MacBooks are too thin to have an onboard Ethernet adapter. After setting up a local account and connect...
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Alyssa Pugh
Fixing Problem With Windows 7 Shared Files and Mapped Drives Unavailable Over VPN
One of our IT consulting customers using a Windows 7 laptop was experiencing a problem with access mapped drives while connected to their co...
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Alyssa Pugh
Issues with Windows Fax and Scan and TIFF documents
I was working with a user who uses Windows Fax and Scan to scan documents. One day it stopped scanning and threw an error that read, "A prob...
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Alyssa Pugh
VMware vCenter appliance alert emails
I recenly rebuilt a vCenter environment for a customer. We decided to use the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5. The configuration of the vCenter...
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Alyssa Pugh
Increasing the Speed of Exchange Mailbox Migrations
I recently built new Exchange 2016 servers for a customer and needed to move all of the users' mailboxes to the new servers. When I initiall...
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