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System administration tasks in Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012R2, Windows Server 2016 & related software.
Hoping to be useful, I'm setting up a public list of all the installation paths of the various versions of Office (from XP to 2016) for all Windows systems.
Microsoft Office default installation folders for Windows (all versions) Read More
This tutorial describes the common mandatory tasks to properly route, install, deploy and configure a web site or service upon a remote server of any kind: VPS, dedicated server, web …
Deploying and configuring a web site on a remote server Read More
Some months ago I made a couple posts explaining how we can configure IIS to allow the download of Android APK and iOS IPA files: now, upon request, I'm posting the …
Allow the download of Windows Phone XAP files within IIS (avoiding 404 errors) Read More
Standby, also known as sleep mode, is one of the most useful features of the latest windows builds: when properly used it allows any user not only to save a tremendous …
How to prevent Windows from waking up by itself after entering sleep mode Read More
If you've setup some native or third-party backup procedures on your system (in our case we had Cobian Backup) it might happen to stumble upon the following error message in the …
Volume Shadow Copy Service Error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface - how to fix that Read More
Since its introduction in the first Windows NT Server, the Event Viewer has always been an essential tool for any System Administrator as the primary source to detect, locate and review a …
Event Viewer: how to send notification E-Mail messages with Powershell Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post you most likely experienced the following error message when you tried to run your web application in debug mode: Unable to start debugging on the web …
Visual Studio 2013 and 2015: Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging - How to fix that Read More
The username and password prompt at the end of the boot sequence is the root of all security protocols for any operating system worth installing: Windows plays no exception, that's why you …
Configure Windows automatic login feature with AutoLogon Read More Do you remember the Startup folder, where users and administrators - and also malware and other malicious software - could put shortcuts in order to execute certain programs on system startup? …
Startup folder location on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 2012 Server Read More
Among the first questions an average user asks right after installing or upgrading to Windows 10 is: what's happened to the Control Panel shortcut? This is not a new question, after all: …
How to open Control Panel in Windows 10 Read More