error installing ODBC driver: Sage Line 50 v24, ODBC error 13: Could not load the setup or translator library. Verify that the file Sage Line 50 v24 exists and that you can access it. Sage support little help…. refer to various MS documents then tell you to uninstall and reinstall .net and make a bunch…
WSE 2012r2 Client computer backup failing at 1% solution
Resolution for Windows Server Essentials 2012 r2 Client computer backup failing with ‘unknown error’ at 1% The Eventlogs tell us pretty much nothing. The client backup logs are in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Server\Logs The standard backup log (in this case backup-120517.log, just arrange by date) doesn’t tell us much and ends with: BackupLaunchpadControl.RefreshStatus(): completed and showing status Failed…
Who are Lead Forensics, and why should we care?
I usually just blog a little here about boring IT support related stuff, but sometimes it’s good to have a bit of a vent. And the target of my ire this week is an outfit called Lead Forensics who have found a new way to annoy everyone. They’ve done their little bit to make the Internet,…
Windows photo viewer on Windows 7 opening blank and not displaying pictures.
Windows picture viewer on Windows 7 opening blank and not displaying pictures. This one took a while – Check under c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers that you have a folder called ‘color’ and 10 or so files in there. If not, it’s probably been deleted after some print spooler ‘maintenance’. If this folder or the color profiles are missing,…
Block adult content in YouTube for Schools
YouTube has some fantastic educational resources, but it also has lots of content you probably don’t want appearing in your school. Most Web Filtering systems (such as OpenDNS that we can provide) are only capable of blocking YouTube entirely, which may not be desirable. Fortunately YouTube provide us with a restricted site that can be…
Solution to office 365 assigning onmicrosoft.com addresses when used with AAD Connect.
Annoyingly, Office 365 when coupled with AAD Connect assigns the login name as the AD UPN, but it won’t assign that same UPN as the default email address – instead using user@domain.onmicrosoft.com .This is generally when the ProxyAddresses attribute in AD isn’t populated. In certain situations it’s not desirable to populate this manually, or to…
Security Dilemma for Natwest/RBOS
Natwest business banking down 27/1/2016 Todays a bad day for lots of businesses wanting to do their online banking at Natwest. They’ve been pushing Trusteer Rapport as an additional security layer to using their online banking for a long time. One function of Trusteer is to check DNS to IP resolution, to ensure that users are…
Office 365 signature comparisons/alternatives. Redearth, Mysignaturesonline, Crossware, Codetwo.
Well this turned out to be an unexpectedly annoying and time consuming task, I hope my rambling may save someone else the wasted time…. We recently moved a client to Office 365. Before we were using an SBS 2011 server with the Red Earth signature product which had always worked brilliantly. They have recently been…