Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Monday, July 15, 2024

Windows 11 and Windows 10 iPhone Photos Need HEVC or HEIC Codec - Free Fix

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 I've had multiple people ask for help when it comes to viewing iPhone photos or videos on their Windows PC. The issue is that the photo...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Mac OS X ACL file sharing permissions nightmare and how to fix it

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If you've ever had to set up a file share from within Mac OS X, you may have wanted to pull out your hair. Especially if you're tryi...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018

Mac OS X apps show question marks or damaged or incomplete error

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I've ran into this with individual applications over the years, and can typically solve it with either a permission repair or reinstalli...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

OneDrive "file wasn't uploaded... changes can't be merged" error

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I ran into this with a user and thought it would be a relatively easy fix by telling Microsoft Excel to discard the changes. Unfortunately i...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Time Machine "Can't connect to a current Time Machine backup disk"

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I decided to start using Time Machine alongside Crashplan to make sure I had a local backup. Plus I'm backing up ~8TB of data on that pa...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Replace character in variable within batch script

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I wanted to rename a file using a batch script so it would replace underscores '_' with hyphens '-'. It was pretty easy Se...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Exchange Resource room only shows who scheduled in Outlook

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Apparently the default behavior of resources in Exchange is to replace the subject line with the organizer's name. I'm not going to ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

iPhone missed calls showing on second iPhone

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If you're sharing an Apple ID across multiple iPhones, you have likely ran into an issue at some point with one phone having something f...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Windows 7 stuck searching for updates forever

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If you've had to reinstall Windows 7, depending on how old your install media is you may run into this problem. Once Windows is installe...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

iPhone showing an unread text message but you can't find it

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Ever see the notification on your Messages app, but have no luck finding it? Use Siri. Activate Siri, and then say "Read me my unread m...
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