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, 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...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

OS X Application Window not showing or visible

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I recently had a user trying to open Acrobat Pro DC on a Mac laptop. The user would get the menu bar across the top, but could not see the a...
Friday, December 4, 2015

Messages menu options grayed out on OS X

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If you're someone that manages your fonts more than a normal user, you may have run into this issue with the built-in Messages, or iMess...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Terminal server user cannot set default printer

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Ok, I'll admit that this post is late to the party because I'm talking about Server 2003, which went EOL earlier this year. However,...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Export a list of categories and their parent from Magento

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We were looking for a way to create a product setup form for our Magento-based eCommerce site. One of the hangups was getting a list of all ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry

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The system has reached the maximum size allowed for the system part of the registry. Additional storage requests will be ignored If you ge...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

VMWare error: The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created

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I needed to shrink the registry files on a ESXi guest (guest1), and in order to do so I shut it down and mounted the virtual disk on a separ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Install Symantec's Backup Exec 2010 Mac OS X agent in OS X 10.9 or 10.10

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Updated: 10/23/15 I reinstalled the OS on my OS X server and upgraded to 10.10 Yosemite. In that process I had to reinstall the Backup Exe...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Free up inactive memory in OS X

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Let me preface this by stating that normally you should not have to do this, and it is typically best to let the OS manage the RAM usage. I ...
Monday, May 19, 2014

OS X Active Directory Users losing admin privileges when offline

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For anyone using Directory Services in OS X to bind the Mac to a Windows domain, you've likely seen the option to allow administration b...
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