Apple’s iPhone 5S comes with a Health app that tracks your movements. You can also add Sleep data, body measurements, blood test measurements, and whole battery of additional data. Unfortunately, it does not back up to local iTunes backup. When you set up your new iPhone from local iTunes backup, you will have an […]
We recently installed Active Directory Federated Services version 2.0 on Windows Server 2008. In the course of testing, we had to delete and re-install. We followed instructions found here, here, and here. Sadly, IIS kicked up an error “application pool cannot be deleted because it contains 1 applications” when we tried to delete ADFSAppPool. After many attempts, […]
One of the services that Amazon Web Services offers that makes it so appealing is “Virtual Private Cloud“. This service allows you to create what is in effect a subnet of your corporate network on Amazon’s cloud, complete with as many VMs as you need. One of the more ambitious configurations is the scenario with […]
I have been a fan of Acronis‘ backup software for some time now. I came across a system recently where Acronis could not connect to the local machine and backups had not run for some time. The “Acronis Managed Machine Service” would not start up, reporting an error 1607. The event log in Windows 7 […]
The brother multifunction copier printer fax scanner is a popular printer for small businesses and large departments. It has a curious behavior. If for some reason the wired network connection has been lost due to power outage or network re-wiring, the printer will turn off it’s internal Ethernet connection. Simply unplugging and replugging the Ethernet […]
Google contacts, as a section of Google’s Gmail, is fraught some bad behavior. 1) Duplication of contact entries during syncing with Blackberries and iPhones, as chronicled here, here, and here. 2) Duplication of addresses within contact entries. The Gmail interface has built-in tags called “My Contacts”, and “Other Contacts”. You, the user, will enter addresses and […]
There is yet another place to look for evidence of a prior virus infestation. Just as some virii will set themselves up as a wrapper on the browser and intercept all traffic, other virii will install themselves as a wrapper on all applications at the OS level. Try to run an executable or control panel […]
VIPRE, the antivirus program from Sunbelt Software, is a little bit tricky to uninstall. In the Windows XP control panel, “Add/Remove Programs”, or the Windows Vista/Windows 7 control panel, “Programs and Features”, the user is presented with options to re-configure VIPRE, not to uninstall it. The way to go about uninstalling it is a […]
The media library built into Windows Media Player 11 can index movie files, music files, and audio files. Additionally, once you set it to monitor your “My Movies”, “My Music”, and “My Pictures” folders, it automatically adds new file to the media library. It makes for a very nice feature. You may find that at […]
The V90L is one of the latest thin clients from Wyse. It runs a modified version of Windows XP called Windows XPe (embedded). You may find in operation that it chokes on printer of large files. Specifically, we found that at around 400-500 kb, it starts dropping data from the print job, if not the […]