One of the little niggles that you can get with Windows Server (2008 SP2 in my case) is a remote desktop connection will not let you use saved credentials to login remotely with the following error message. Your credentials did not work The server’s authentication policy does not allow connection requests using saved credentials. Please enter new credentials. The fix… Read more
Category: Software
This section looks at what is new in the world of software (Operating Systems included) and how to take best advantage of what is out there.
Windows 8 Upgrade – Error 0x80070570
For the past few days I’ve been trying to get Windows 8 Pro (64bit for anyone who is counting) upgrade to install onto a test PC at work, however after detecting the user files the installer gets to about 4% of extracting files then errors out with the message below. Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be… Read more
LSI Nytro Predictor – Please install Windows Performance Analyzer
While trying to run the LSI Predictor on one of my servers I was getting the error message Please install Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Performance Analyzer Version 4.8.7701 It took a while to nail down what I actually needed to get this installed however the solution is hidden away in the Windows SDK (the link is for Windows 7 but… Read more
Microsoft Surface RT – Getting your Xbox Controller to work
Its hard to not know about Xbox but one thing you may not know about it is that you can use your Xbox Controller with Windows PCs (if you have a wireless controller you will need one of the Windows PC wireless receivers). What makes this even better is you arn’t limited to using it with Windows 8 but also… Read more
Microsoft Surface RT – Drive Encryption
Encryption still seems to be a bit of a dirty word in the world of IT – all to often we hear about a notebook PC being stolen and that it had unencrypted data on it. Luckily the Microsoft Surface RT comes with encryption built in right out of the box and to make things even better it Uses the… Read more
Microsoft Surface RT – Printing
Lets all face it we don’t live in the paperless office…yet…and from time to time you will find a need to print something. With most modern tablets printing maybe an issue, maybe you will be lucky have you have the latest HP printer next to you with Apple AirPrint (to see the rather short list click here) but if you are… Read more
Microsoft Surface RT – PowerPoint
In this video I look at how you can run a full PowerPoint presentation from your Microsoft Surface RT tablet PC. The key thing about Windows RT over other mobile operating systems is the inclusion of a full version of Office 2013 which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This means if you go to present a PowerPoint that you made… Read more
Microsoft Surface RT – Intro
As you may have taken from the photo above I did indeed get a Microsoft Surface RT in the end! That’s my surface and I sitting in Heathrow T5 waiting to head out for the weekend, this is also me using the tethering on my Windows Phone 7 to get to the internet to type up the post I am… Read more
WSUS Error – 80244022 or 8024402c
This time its the turn of Windows Update (powered by WSUS on Server 2008 R2) error 80244022 (sometimes seen as 8024402c). Had this error on my own Admin PC a few days ago while trying to run monthly updates, there is very little information about this error message out there however the main cause seems to be linked to the… Read more
Extending the AD Schema for end user recovery – System Centre Data Protection Manager
For a long time we’ve been using the built in features of Windows Server to allow users to recover their own work through the ‘Previous Versions’ tab in Windows Explorer (which works on the Volume Snapshot service) however the long term plan has been to get our DPM 2012 server to do the heavy lifting instead. When trying to extend… Read more