Server 2012 R2 Essentials “Cannot connect this computer to the network”
Last week I finally got around to replacing the ailing SBS 2011 Server with [easyazon_link asin=”B00GAIBC0I” locale=”US” new_window=”yes” nofollow=”default ...
Category Archives: Windows
How Partners Sell Microsoft’s Cloud Services
My company – Fresh Mango Technologies – has been a Microsoft Partner for many years now, I’ve always known that their on-line infrastructure for partners was a mess but I didn’ ...
Simple fix for the Windows Update Error 80072EE2, 8024400A, 8024400D & 8024400E
[easyazon_link identifier=”1119050057″ locale=”US” nw=”n” tag=”bomc-21″ popups=”n”][/easyazon_link]My computer recently started kicking up a ...
Solution: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with
I recently had to move my computer from one domain to another and doing so caused a few glitches, one of which was it broke a scheduled task I had created. Every time I ran the Task Scheduler in Wind ...
Outlook 2013 Interface Design (AKA The Great UX Disaster)
I recently updated to [easyazon_link asin=”B00B1TGMIS” locale=”US” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”bomc-21″ add_to_cart=” ...
Solution: Small Business Server (SBS) Windows Update Error 80072EFD
When checking on one of our Small Business Servers recently I discovered that it hadn’t updated itself in a while – I attempted to manually run the error but got a message saying that Wind ...
Solving Office (or Outlook) Activation Unspecified Error 0x80070190
While recently installing Outlook on some desktops, I immediately hit a problem with the Microsoft Product activation system, getting a rather unhelpful error message stating “An unspecified Er ...
The Slow Loss of Small Business Server
Today while setting up the network for our new Fresh Mango UK office, I was reminded again of the joy of Microsoft’s Small Business Server 2011 and forced again to consider the folly that is the ...
Windows Folder Coloured in Green – Encrypted Folders
I recently downloaded a WordPress theme I’d bought and unzipped/extracted in the usual manner on my Windows 7 machine only to notice that some of the folders were coloured green. I didn’t ...
Windows 8.1 Preview Expiry Problems
Be warned, this isn’t so much a tech article as a rant about the inadequacies of the Windows 8 update process and the the Windows 8 App store. A few days ago I turned on my laptop and was prompt ...