Over the past couple of days there has been an influx of users online reporting BSOD (blue screen of death) when printing, the culprit being win32kfull.sys – the BSOD error as below: Stop code: APC_INDEX_MISMATCH What failed: win32kfull.sys This appears to be caused by a bad Windows Update from Microsoft, and so far there […]
So, recently we had the need to add a member of staff as a domain/server administrator on our new Server 2016 domain*. After doing that, despite him being in the administrators group and that group having full control, when accessing the data drive he got Access Denied to data drive for an Administrator. * I […]
You can force default apps/programs in Windows 10 via GPO quite easily – something that hasn’t been quite as straight forward in other versions of Windows. This is a blessing (especially in education), with the introduction of “Modern Apps” like Edge that refuse to work correctly with many modern sites / applications, never mind the […]
If you are receiving the error message: “Remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop client access licenses available for this computer. Please contact the server administrator” when trying to use remote desktop, be it via invoking an MSTSC session or using something such as RDWeb, it’s actually a pretty easy fix. Simply […]
My latest annoyance was more and more laptops being hit with the following error whilst trying to install or remove software: The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed. This can occur if you are running Windows in safe mode, or if the Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Contact your support personnel for assistance. […]
So recently, I have changed the way I use WDS, and set it up so all devices require approval before booting. This has various advantages, the main one being able to take advantage of the in-built domain join feature within WDS. Unfortunately, if you name a device incorrectly for example, just deleting the item from […]
WdsClient – An error occurred while obtaining an IP address from the DHCP server. Please check to ensure that there is an operation DHCP server on this network segment. This is the error I got recently when trying to image some new machines for one of the schools I support. The correct drivers were installed […]
It’s sometimes very useful to be able to quickly export a list of users from AD, into a spreadsheet. This is something that teachers ask me to do regularly, so they have a list of student usernames in their class / year. Here’s how – Open powershell and type the below: Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase […]
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