As always, I try to post up IT fixes that may be a little tougher to find, and only if the fix is proven to actually work, so you’re not scrolling amongst 100s of forum posts. One useful command from back in the day, “sfc /scannow” used to be used to fix corrupted files in Windows installations, although its been a bit of a meme over the past few years (decades?) in that it was almost universally suggested by online Microsoft support, yet rarely ever fixed anything. (Rarely being used liberally here – it DID work…sometimes). Yet, what happens when SFC doesn’t work, and instead spits out an error?
Continue reading “Windows Server and Corrupted Files”Fiery Print Server ignores DHCP/DNS Changes with Papercut
Another (Wasted) day…another dollar. Its not unheard of for a typical IT person to rant about dealing with printers. It seems they’re constantly the bane of any admin; not printing, needing special treatment, buggy drivers, buggy settings, etc. I often think I’m immune to a majority of the issues; I’ve been through EVERYTHING, fixed it all, and hey if I can get 1960s teletype machines working, I can get a friggin modern printer working. Well today, I was put back in my place…
Continue reading “Fiery Print Server ignores DHCP/DNS Changes with Papercut”Sharing Printers – Windows 10 22H2 – Error 0x0000709
Once again, a fun little doozy with rabbit holes leading in all the wrong directions. A typical 5 minute thing turns into a 4 hour hair-pulling exercise! Tried to share 2 printers from a Windows 10 computer to another Windows 10 computer, and the other Windows 10 computer could not access them; they showed up as shared printers, but I got the dreaded 0x000000709 (note number of zeros may be off) error whenever I tried to connect to the printer.
Doing some searching leads you to believe this was due to a security update that was pushed some time ago to mitigate Print Nightmare, or perhaps a new issue having to do with RPC in Windows 11. (Why so many Windows 11 results when I clearly put Windows 10 in the search baffles me too). The real answer? Neither (ish).
Continue reading “Sharing Printers – Windows 10 22H2 – Error 0x0000709”Firefox – Gmail/Google Sites lock up/fail to load
Figured I’d share this out so I can find it faster in the future if I need to switch PCs around. On the latest versions of Firefox, Google services seem to run into an issue where if you open things like Gmail, it’ll work for a while, then just…stop responding, but ONLY Googles sites stop responding.
Apparently it has to do with a setting in Firefox that’s handling a new TLS 1.3 feature (stuff thats a bit over my head), so I’ll simply share the article with the fix for it if anyone is running into this issue:
Can’t connect to Google since Firefox 100 | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
Long story short, go into Firefox config by browsing to about:config (click yes to the prompts), then search for security.tls.enable_0rtt_data, which will be set as TRUE. Set it to false using the ying-yang looking icon to the right, and then close/reopen Firefox. Gmail and other Google sites should now work as expected.
Office365: Draft Emails Created in Inbox
Aaand again…another CRAZY Office365 issue solved, with a resolution out of left field. In this case, the user was having problems when replying to emails; not only did the email get delivered as usual, and the usual sent item was created in Sents, but the original email in the INBOX was being converted to a DRAFT! So if I sent him an email, and he replied to me, I’d get the reply as usual, but my original email, in his inbox, was turning into a draft.
In addition, he complained that his calendar was out-of-sync; things on his phone weren’t showing up in Outlook.
Continue reading “Office365: Draft Emails Created in Inbox”Teams Calling Settings Not Consistent
Had a strange issue today, and looking into it, found even more strange issues, particular revolving around Teams finally providing the admin access to a user’s calling settings.
Continue reading “Teams Calling Settings Not Consistent”Lenovo X13 Gen 2- Bios Update and Shut Down Issues
Model: Brand new Lenovo X13 Gen 2
Problems:
– Laptop does not properly shut down after downgrading to Windows 10
– Latest BIOS (1.51 from 1.47) refuses to install (causes laptop to hang on reboot)
(Updated 3-9-2023 – see Update at the end of the article)
Continue reading “Lenovo X13 Gen 2- Bios Update and Shut Down Issues”Teams Direct Routing – No Ringtone when Transferring from AutoAttendant
One thing I noticed is that when setting up voicemail in Teams, if you set up an autoattendant to transfer directly to an individual, there’s no “ringing” tone. One would expect this to just be a standard thing when transferring anywhere, so how can we fix it?
Continue reading “Teams Direct Routing – No Ringtone when Transferring from AutoAttendant”Another Patch Night, another Long “it broke” night
It seems every couple weeks when I schedule some downtime to do updates and go over things, almost 50% of the time I get stuck on something where a patch or update breaks something, and often in some crazy way. With virtualization, there’s an easy fix: snapshots. But what happens when you test something, looks good, and delete the snapshots? Oops.
Continue reading “Another Patch Night, another Long “it broke” night”Microsoft Teams prompting for Sign-In Daily (Bad SSO) after Endpoint Manager/Intune Registration
In doing some searching for this issue, I see a handful of people searching for the issue with varying degrees of successful answers. Since I ran into this recently, I figured I’d post up my own experience with fixing this.
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