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I maintain a Windows network with Windows server 2019 essentials and 24 users, 4 printers, 2 copiers, and some wireless access points. We run a server based application running on SQL that takes roughly 30 seconds to load up at the workstation, 20 seconds if you load it at the server. We attach to a...

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Went on site to check the bios and instead found that the Lenovo has a flap that covers the camera and turns it on.

Somethings you just can't see remotely.

thanks

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Hi, I have a Thinkbook 15 Gen 2 15" laptop. 11th generation i5, 16 GB, 500 GB SSD. All works find except I can't get my web cam to activate. Looking in the device manager, it is there with no problem. But I try the Windows 10 camera app and it can't find the web cam. Tried with Skype and Teams ...

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Hi, I’m trying to extend my WIFI to a metal trailer about 50 yards from my home network. Ideally the access points should be weather resistant. I’d also like to have WIFI access by the pool which is also about 50 yards away, but about 160 degrees in another direction. Would a mesh network be a possi...

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The UPS I was looking at, according the the manufacturers web site, gave me an estimated time of 19 minutes to run the server if there is a power outage. We quite often loose power for 15 to 30 minutes. I was thinking if I put the separate power supplies on two different UPSs that I could push the u...

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I recently bought a server and want to add two UPS to it. it has a dual power supply rated at 550Watts (230/115V). If I have a separate UPS on both connections and have a power outage, will it drain UPSs at the same rate, or will the load be less because there are two of them?

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I have a client with their domain (which is an .org) being used with Office 365 and they have 5 users with their emails defined. What they have found is that a number of people send in donations, they don't end it with .org, but .com. Is the solution, to purchase another domain with the same name, b...

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Turned out it was not Outlook doing it. The SQL client Application that integrates with Outlook was the culprit.

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The copier is a Konica Minolta bizhub c654e. The scanner has all rights to the network share. The share consists of hundreds of separate folders and the scan can be directed to go to any of them. Generally, when they scan, it is to a specific folder that no one else is using. There is no document co...

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I've got a user who is using outlook 2013. She is scanning in a document using a copier to the Windows 2012 server share. The document type is a pdf. She then goes back to her computer, creates a new email and attaches the scans and sends them. The problem is that erratically the original file on th...

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I've been using Symantec Endpoint Protection for small business for years. Now that Broadcom has purchased them, they are even harder to deal with. I'm looking for input on a new solution. Has anyone used Sophos Endpoint protection? I need protecton for 35 computers that is good protection that does...

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I want to change an existing alias to a regular email account. Once I delete the Alias and then create the user, how long does it take for the email that was going to the alias to go to the newly created mailbox? During this transition, will any mail be lost if it is sent while making this change?

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I am about to upgrade a company that has a Windows 2012 R2 essentials server. I am moving them to A Windows 2019 essentials. My question is regarding the computer name. Would it make sense to name it the same so any software moved to the new server can use the same configuration they were using? The...

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Good info - thanks.

So if we upgrade the video, this would be a decent game computer?

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Hi, A friends son wants a new computer for gaming and video streaming. He's on a tight budget and put together the following system. They are looking for my blessing that this would be a good computer for him. I am not current with game hardware needs to "really" play these games successfu...

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I thought this was done, but discovered while the Windows 10 update seemed to fix the problem with the one copier, the other one still had problems. The printer people tried to blame it on the network, but after putting a switch and a workstation right next to the copier and unplugging from the rest...

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I installed windows KB4482887 and my printing seems to be fixed. I was also experiencing a disconnect with running remote desktop through a vpn and that seems to have been fixed.

thanks for all the input.

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I made image backups of all the Windows 10 computers. I took one that was 2 years old and restored it. There were no Windows updates in it. It printed fine - 2 seconds and it's coming out of the printer. I am going to go through the major updates and do practice printouts at each one and see if I no...

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Rolled back Windows 10 1809 and now we are printing.

Any way to roll back the 1809 on the computers that are past the 10 day window for roll back? Or do you know the patch you got that fixed 1809?

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Ludi: Programs: Adobe for the pdf files and Windows photo for the jpgs. I downloaded Irfanview for the photos and found if i shrunk the files I could get them to print. I tried opening the pdf in Word Perfect and Edge, but did not make a difference with the print. I am not using any print tracking s...

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They are connected to the network. I have not connected to them directly (via usb). I did do a print test right from the server through the network and it was slower than it used to be, but it did print (took 3 to 4 minutes to send in the file from the spooler). I was thinking of hooking up a Window...

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They both have 4 mg of ram and a 250 GB hard drive.

I would have to ask the copier people about adding more ram.

But until 3 weeks ago, this seemed adequate.

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Hi, We have two of these and up to 3 weeks ago we had no problems printing to them. Environment – 25 Windows 10 pro computers, Windows 2012R2 server. About 3 weeks ago, we started having problems printing large jpg and color PDF files. They used to print within 10 to 15 seconds. Now you can watch th...

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I have a lsi megaraid sas 9271-8i controller with a raid 1 ( two drives) and raid 5 (three drives) and a dedicated hot spare for the raid5. One of the raid 5 drives is kicking up an error in the Pred Fail Count, about 1 more each day. I'd like to replace the drive. My question is, if I right click t...

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I just lost two Netgear d5724T switches from a power surge coming through the network cables. This is the 2nd time this has happened. Are there heartier switches, or would have any failed? These are rack mounted and a third switch was OK. I thought of changing to Cisco, but have seen a lot of commen...

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I found some old rails from way back when you needed rails to install hard drives in the old computer cases. Was able to adapt them to allow the hard drives to fit. The HP noticed that it was not their hard drives and warned me that they would not blink the light (oh how terrible) but they set up as...

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I just bought a HP ProLiant ML30 G9 4U. I was planning on putting in standard enterprise sata hard drives. Very low usage server. What I have found is that HP has made the drive storage area not fit standard sata drives. Apparently they want you to buy HP drives to fit in here. Is there any inexpens...

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For testing, I used my backup server where I have all this installed so If something terrible happens to the main server (like a fire), that I have some recourse. What I did is I stuck a SSD in and moved the D:\program files\Microsoft SQL server folder to the ssd. Then did a mklink to the folder on ...

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I have a Xeon e5-2620 @ 2.00ghz, 32 GB of ram, (2) 233Gb mirrored Sata drives for the boot drive and (4) 280Gb sas drives in a raid 5 for my "D>" drive. I installed the software and the SQL to the D> drive, thinking that would give me the most speed. I also have 4 network interfaces teamed...

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What I think will work. I put the following script in my Openbsd firewall in the ifstated.conf. I have both isps connected to different network cards, I only have given a hostname configuration for the fios one. If the ping fails to return from google, it copies the hostname information for comcast ...

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