We installed Office LTSC 2021 and noticed right away that there was no sound feedback from any of the Office applications. Apparently, they are not enabled by default in this version. Getting started with Office Sounds To get them going: Click FILE Options Ease of Access Tick Provide feedback with […]
Philip Elder
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One of the annoyances when working with multiple windows open is the inability to see their edges out of the box. A simple remedy: Start Settings Colors Choose an accent color Tick Start, taskbar, and action center Tick Title bars and window borders For those of us who are visually […]
One of the most important e-mails that hits our Inbox on a weekly basis unless there’s a break in there is the Veeam R&D Forums Digest by Anton Gostev. I’ve mentioned it before but this week’s post is especially important so it’s below verbatim. To subscribe: Sign into the Veeam […]
By now most folks will have found the following fix sent out by Microsoft for the Y2K22 Anti-Malware bug: Microsoft Exchange Team Blog: Email Stuck in Exchange On-premises Transport Queues Queue Safety Tweak Before running the script check the timeout setting for mail held in the queue: Get-TransportServer | Select-Object […]
It’s pretty obvious that we’re in the height of the Christmas purchasing season. So, when something like this shows up in the Inbox if one isn’t thinking, one clicks and pays. Right? Well, in this case the Scrooge McDuck won out over paying the “fee” so a search of Intelcom’s […]
We are setting up a new 2-node AMD EPYC Rome S2D (Storage Spaces Direct) cluster and hit a bit of a snag with the new version of RUFUS that lists the following options when formatting the drive: Windows 11 with TPM/SecureBoot Windows 11 without TPM/SecureBoot Our cluster nodes refused to […]
We’ve had a lot of grief with our WiFi LTE based ISP connection (Xplornet) since the beginning of last year. We tried tech support a number of times even going so far as to pay for a technician to come out and verify that our antenna was pointing correctly as […]
Whether you use Veeam or not, it’s a _really_ good idea to subscribe to Anton Gostev’s weekly Veeam R&D Forums Digest. Veeam R&D Forums User Control Panel Anton always keeps us up to date on what’s happening with the various Veeam products whether it’s support issues, updates, KB pointers, upcoming […]
We are setting up a new Apple MacBook Air with the M1 ARM64 based processor. There are a couple of caveats when it comes to setting up Windows and Office on the new chip: Parallels for ARM64 is in Beta Mode Windows for ARM64 is in Beta Mode The same […]
We’ve been seeing mention of issues with printer and/or MFP drivers being the source of conflict with the current as of this writing Windows 10 20H2 cumulative update. Microsoft has released two out-of-band updates to try and address the problems being seen. What doesn’t seem to be clear is whether […]