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Grammarly – Installation has failed

October 8, 2021 by Phil Eddies

My spelling and grammar are not great. I was diagnosed with Dyslexia while at school, the main problem I have is mixing up words. The end result is I either spend extra time checking my work or more often than …

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Resolving a time sync issue on a domain-joined computer

October 9, 2021September 19, 2019 by Phil Eddies

Domain joined computers should sync their time from a domain controller, if this is not happening the below should help.   Make sure the “Windows Time” service is running and set to Automatic Checking and correcting to a time source …

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VPN connection hangs in “Connecting”

August 30, 2021October 22, 2018 by Phil Eddies

Problem: While testing the Meraki Client VPN feature I noticed what I can only assume is a bug in Windows 10 (I am on 1803). When selecting the Connect option from the WIFI/Network icon in the system tray, the connection …

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File Explorer – Windows can’t find \\Server\Share. Check the spelling and try again

August 27, 2021June 27, 2017 by Phil Eddies
Windows can't find \\Server\Share. Check the spelling and try again

Problem: One of my Windows 10 Pro clients recently had a weird issue I could ping servers, RDP to them but I couldn’t map a drive or browse using a UNC path. I would get the message Windows can’t find \\Server\Share. …

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DHCP Failover – Error 20010 The specified option does not exist

October 9, 2021June 23, 2017 by Phil Eddies
DHCP Failover

Problem: When configuring DHCP failover for one of my scopes the process kept failing with the message “Configure failover failed. Error 20010. The specified option does not exist” Workaround: Right-clicking on IPv4 and selecting “Set Predefined Options” I confirmed that …

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DHCP – The specified servers are already present in the Directory Service

August 28, 2021June 17, 2017 by Phil Eddies

After building a Windows 2016 DHCP server I attempted to authorise the server in AD but kept getting the message “The specified servers are already present in the Directory Service”. I have never had a Windows server with this host …

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DFS – The namespace cannot be queried. The network address is invalid.

February 27, 2017 by Phil Eddies

Problem: While playing around with DFS on Windows Server 2016 in my lab environment I kept getting the message “The namespace cannot be queried. The network address is invalid” when trying to add a new namespace via the wizard. Solution: …

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Windows 8.1 Blue Screening Loop – Page Fault In Nonpaged Area (Ntfs.sys)

January 25, 2017 by Phil Eddies
Page Fault In Nonpaged Area (Ntfs.sys)

Problem: I recently had an issues where a Windows 8.1 machine that was stuck in a blue screen reboot loop. I would get the message “Page Fault In Nonpaged Area (Ntfs.sys)” for a fraction of a second and then the …

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Windows 8.1 Automatic Repair Loop – cmimcext.sys

January 25, 2017December 6, 2016 by Phil Eddies

Problem: I recently had an issue with a computer that was powered off during the installation of the November 2016 Preview of Monthly Quality Rollup update (KB3197875). After the computer was powered back on Windows attempted to to run an …

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Remotely updating a users cached credentials

September 13, 2016January 4, 2016 by Phil Eddies

Problem: A remote user had forgotten their password, so they phoned our Service Desk to get it reset. The user did not have a direct connection to the domain so their cached credentials were still holding the forgoten password preventing …

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