Guides & Tips

Guides and how-to posts for common, and some not so common, computer problems.

Apple App Store: Grayed Out Apple ID Explained

We’ve all seen it. You try to update some software on a Mac and BAM you have a pre-populated Apple...

Read more

QBCFMonitorService Stops

If the QBCFMonitorServer stops, users are unable to log into Quickbooks. You may see this event in the Application event...

Read more

DELL MD Power Vault and Server 2012 MPIO not working

Cannot get MPIO to work in server 2012 with a Dell MD Power Vault? Not sure this is limited to...

Read more

Event ID: 1196 Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed

Event ID: 1196 Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed When setting up a Hyper-V Cluster this event can plague...

Read more

If you try to put a VHD file on a USB hard drive that is larger than 2TB you are gonna have a bad time….

VHD files will not work on most USB hard disks over 2TB in size. Older (XP) machines will not support...

Read more

Outlook 2011 for Mac and Exchange Sync Issues

There have been numerous cases reported of Outlook 2011 for Mac not syncing properly with Exchange (both 2007 and 2010,...

Read more

Useful Terminal Commands – Part 03 – serveradmin

WHY YOU NO HAVE HAVE LOGGING??? This was my first thought after realizing there was no way to edit the...

Read more

Useful Terminal Commands – Part 02 – SSH -D flag

Here’s a good one courtesy of our own Tom Wilson: Here’s a useful thing. It’s often useful for testing purposes...

Read more

Useful Terminal Commands – Part 01 – Intro

I had a fun idea with another tech and that was to describe a new terminal command (or a part...

Read more

Archive Email in Outlook 2011 for Mac

Getting those emails stating your mailbox is full? Not getting mail because of it? Tech Support urging you to archive...

Read more