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I was wondering how to explain to a customer the real world risk of running Server 2012 Essentials now that extended support has expired. It's behind a firewall (just an Asus home router!!) and it's not exposed to the internet on any port. So, I was wondering how to explain the risk if some...

Windows 10 Pro laptop client with Windows Server 2012 (Small Business Server) domain. Is there any reason why I can't join the domain when connected to wifi? All the DNS settings are the same as a wired client as shown by IPCONFIG. I just can't find anything on the internet that explains this...

I've got a customer with a HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF. It's old but still working. It's got 8GB of RAM. The keyboard will periodically just not type and the delay is three to five seconds. Anger ensues. The mouse also does the same thing. Things I've tried. 1. Malware scan - clean 2. Hard drive...

I see that Microsoft recommends having a backup administrator separate from the initial account that created the AD. Does anybody know if this is a FREE account or is it still subject to regular billing? Also, can the account be external to the domain - like the AD owner's personal email?

I have a customer that has Outlook (Microsoft 365 version) installed on about 5 PCs and his iphone (all the same business account). The email is through Google Workspace with his business domain. He has one folder of emails on one PC that is NOT on Gmail when you login via web interface AND it's...

One of my customers has an Asus router. I was looking at the clients connected to the device. It's a 192.168.2.X network. And I see the following in the list of clients (see attached picture) 192.168.101.X devices. What is going on...

I have a customer with an iphone 11 Pro Max and a Dell Inspiron 3558 laptop. She says that her laptop and her phone intermittently and simultaneously become grainy/blurry. Not just in the tele-health app she is using with her patients but on regular web pages. So, I rule out bandwidth right...

I wanted to get the install media for Server 2012 Essentials in case my customer can't come up with it in an emergency. On this page, I see Server 2012 R2 Essentials, but NOT the non-R2 edition. Link Any ideas on how to get the proper ISO?

I have tried to find the answer to this question elsewhere, but can't seem to find quite what I'm looking for. I've got a customer with a Server 2012 Essentials. I'm doing a backup to a dedicated external hard drive. I set it up for daily and then edited the scheduled task to make it once a...

I know this is an old problem, but I can't find any solutions that work for me. Please don't tell me to upgrade to Windows 10. The software won't run on Windows 10, so that is out. The PC is Windows 7 Pro (upgraded from Windows 7 Home via in-place upgrade) and joined to Windows Server 2012...

I know that Intel is replacing one with the other. I have a RAID1 for my storage volume. Intel RST software used to startup at boot and you could hover over the icon in the task bar to see status. And it used to do an automatic scheduled monthly verify of the RAID1. Seems like the new Intel...

I've got an older PC that just upgraded to 2004. It wouldn't even run afterwards. After typing the password for the user, the audio would just starting doing a chopping sound and never stop or get to the desktop. If it did get to the desktop, you could hit the Windows + R key to run something...

I know this is not the server forum, but nobody answers questions over there. Looking to replace a PC that is being used to host a shared folder for a home office of 4 people. It's running Windows 10 and has served us well. Looking for any comments or options I may have missed. Would like RAID1...

I added a user's gmail account to their Office 365 Outlook yesterday and now their other computer is prompting them for their Gmail password but their (correct) password is not accepted. I am assuming it goes this way: In order to add Gmail to Outlook for the first time, you have to enable two...

Just wondering if anyone has seen this recently. You get a screen before you can login on domain-joined PCs. It says "the Recycle Bin on C:\ is corrupted. Do you want to empty the recycle bin for this drive?" The thing is, you can't get past it by clicking on YES or NO. Nothing happens. You are...

I know you can export your email to a PST file manually/periodically to save everything (Inbox, Sent Items, Folders). But can anyone recommend an automatic solution so that a customer is not required to remember to do the manual export to PST? I want to set someone up so that they have a...

Link I see from that web page, the processor & family of processors I mentioned is not listed as being supported (Sandy Bridge). I'm just wondering if the PC my customer has would be able to upgrade to Windows 10 because it has an Nvidia graphics card. Or is it purely not supported due to the...

I recently upgraded two Windows 7 PCs to Windows 10. I then went to put in my recently purchased Windows 10 Retail software key code and it wouldn't allow me to change it. It said (paraphrasing) "Windows has been activated with a digital license and cannot be changed". So, I'm wondering if these...

Wondering if someone can analyze this for me, because it doesn't make sense to me. I have a customer using GoDaddy email and Outlook (Office 365 subscription) as their email client. I cloned her hard drive over to an SSD and then transplanted the new drive into the PC. No problems at all during...

I gave an older HP Pavilion g6 laptop to my mom and then later I was going to put a SSD into it. I cloned the Windows 10 over to an Intel 530 120GB drive using the Intel utility and the cloning went fine. But when I try to boot it, it says "bootable device not found" and in the BIOS when I do a...