One of our clients recently started to experience the dreaded RDP Black Screen issue on their Win 2016 servers. I had read about this problem, but never witnessed it first hand. The only thing that managed to get the servers operational again was a reboot. Not good in commercial environment. After much research, I thought…
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Win 2016 RDP Adobe Acrobat Keeps Crashing on Launch
This is a quick "How To" fix for when you're trying to open Adobe Acrobat Reader from the desktop shortcut in Windows 2016 or 2012R2 environment and discover that it is slow to open and then crashes. I had to muck around with this for a good hour or so to rectify the issue, so…
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Win 2016 Essentials Configuration Fails
I had this issue on a server we were setting up for a client today and the Windows Server 2016 Essentials configuration kept failing. We attempted numerous re-installations and configuration options, but the problem kept rearing it's ugly head. We tried to reset the wizard settings using the following powershell commands: Remove-WssConfigurationData Uninstall-WindowsFeature ServerEssentialsRole After…
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Synology NAS Loses Domain Connection
This is a brief post which details how to fix an issue with your Synology NAS when it all of a sudden loses it's existing Active Directory domain membership. Even if you try to rejoin the domain, you will get the dreaded error: "Failed to join the windows domain..." Fear not my fine friends, after…
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