Just like Windows and Mac, Chromebooks have a lifetime of support and updates for the Chrome OS.  There are 2 ways to check your device or look at the lifetime of a Chrome OS device before purchasing. To check a device by model Go to – https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366 Scroll down to the Chrome OS devices and […]

If you want to export the contents of a user in Microsoft 365 to a Outlook PST file follow these steps.  These all should be done using Microsoft Edge.  Microsoft Edge is the only one that seems to work with the export download. Check that your username at Microsoft 365 can Export Sign in at […]

If you are running of space on your local hard drive in your computer due to the synchronized copies of files from OneDrive you can use Files On-Demand for Windows to reduce the amount of local disk space required. In the lower right of your screen if you see your OneDrive icon click it to […]

If you are getting Code 0x80131500 in Windows Store or If you are getting We’re having trouble loading your feed in News and Interest widget or If Outlook is saying Trying to Connect Check the following: First verify that your Internet is working using your browser If your able to get to websites then check […]

Windows 11 may generate a message of: You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network. or Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found. This may occur connecting to a older server or […]

Microsoft’s page on how to Transfer FSMO (Flexible Single Master Operations) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/view-transfer-fsmo-roles To check what servers hold the FSMO roles From Command line type in netdom query fsmo From PowerShell to determine SchemaMaster and DomainNamingMaster – Get-ADForest domainname | Format-Table SchemaMaster,DomainNamingMaster to determine PDC, RID and Infrastructure – Get-ADDomain yourdomain | format-table PDCEmulator, RIDMaster,InfrastructureMaster About […]

Some versions of Windows Server inside of IIS Certificate Management only allow the creation of SHA-1 certificate requests.  This page shows how to generate a SHA-256 certificate request. Open MMC – Run type in mmc click OK File, Add/Remove Snap-In Certificate > Add Computer Account Local computer Click Finish Click OK Expand Certificates Expand Personal […]

With Microsoft 365 requiring Modern Authentication if you have Outlook 2013 it needs some Registry keys to be added to enable that in Outlook 2013.  Outlook 2016 or newer do not need any registry changes since Modern Authentication is already enabled. In notepad copy and paste the following into the file and save it as […]

To enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 in Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, assuming all of the latest updates for your system are already installed. Open Notepad Copy the following into Notepad Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WinHttp] “DefaultSecureProtocols”=dword:00000a00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WinHttp] “DefaultSecureProtocols”=dword:00000a00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.1\Client] “DisabledByDefault”=dword:00000000 “Enabled”=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Protocols\TLS 1.2\Client] “DisabledByDefault”=dword:00000000 “Enabled”=dword:00000001 Save the file as […]

If your screen should go blank in Windows the display driver may have crashed. To restart the display driver in Windows press Windows + Ctrl + Shift + B and Windows will attempt to restart the display driver and that may bring back your display again.  If this does not help, then you would need […]