Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
iQ-Notes
I’ve tried various tools to keep track of my to-do list/notes in the past including everything from Outlook, Gmail, Notepad, PriorityMatrix, and many more but never stuck with anything longer than notepad (when used in conjunction with mesh) to keep my notes/lists in sync and on multiple computers. Then I found iQ-Notes which so far seems to […]
Tab key changing window focus
This is one of those issues that if it had not happened to me and someone called to tell me they were having this problem, I’d probably think they were nuts! I use the tab key all the time to move between fields, so when it started switching the window focus, I started checking my […]
QuickBooks Enterprise Business Planner Unable to Print
Recently had someone try using the Business Planner tool in QuickBooks (Enterprise v11) and after entering all of the info, ran into an issue with the preview button being greyed out and unable to view the report. After following the instructions on the Intuit knowledge base article, the preview button was now visable but when […]
Using PowerShell to monitor a web server
A couple years ago I posted about a PowerShell script that would read in a web page. I used that to setup a basic web site test to go through a list of web sites/servers and make sure they were up and running and email an alert if they were down or the size of […]
Recover Offline Files and Folders for Vista / Win 7
After moving over several systems from an old SBS2003 domain to a new SBS2011 Essentials server, one user noticed that there were several files missing from their documents. To be more accurate, the files were there but they were very old versions of the file, not the current one they had been working on. After […]
Set default printer with batch file script
For some reason QuickBooks seems to like changing the default printer on some workstations. Haven’t found the cause yet but decided to put in this work-around to make everyone happy. Added this to a login batch file that runs on the system to reset the default printer for each local computer: Note that the PrintUIEntry […]
QuickBooks Enterprise Scheduled Backups
Recently upgraded to QuickBooks Enterprise 2011 and after setting up the scheduled backups, noticed they weren’t running. Manually backups ran fine but scheduled backups would just create a file in the backup folder called QBTempBackup.tmp followed by the date. After doing some digging around online I found out there’s a QB Backup log file that […]
Running app from Mapped Drive – Avoiding UAC Prompts
While reinstalling a Windows Vista system the other day I ran into a problem with the UAC security prompt. The primary applicaiton that is run on this computer is not installed locally but run directly from a mapped drive. Normally the user just clicks on the shortcut and the app launches but after a clean […]
Exchange 440 Login Timeout
Had an issue with an old Exchange 2003 server the other day….in the middle of the day users were disconnected in Outlook (using RPC over HTTPS) and when trying to log into the Exchange web page to view mail, users received the error “440 Login Timeout”. Did the generic solve-all of rebooting the server but […]
Moving to Google Aps…testing
It’s about time to replace the aging Exchange 2003 box. Rather than running my own system I’ve been looking at making the change over to Google Aps. The main reason for this is to eliminate one more system that I have to deal with as well as eliminate the 3rd party mail filter and just […]