What is Tech Debt? Tech Debt, aka “Technical debt” is a trade-off between short-term benefits of rapid delivery and long-term value. One of the main reasons businesses experience tech debt is that they choose speed over quality. While getting into a market quicker than other companies or getting a software out to consumers quicker may…
While it may seem harmless on the outside, simply throwing away electronics or appliances is dangerous for a multitude of reasons. This is why it’s extremely important to dispose of or recycle old electronics properly. Often times, places such as Staples, Best Buy, or other electronics retailers may even purchase them to either properly dispose…
I’m glad you were able to find this blog article! Hopefully you didn’t spend hours of searching the internet like I did in order to figure this out. It seems like everything out there is a paid Google Workspace Addon, well this is completely free! Yes, this actually works and is fairly easy. Problem: You…
It should be no surprise that phishing scams are on the rise in 2020. While the quantity of these attacks have increased, so has the quality. Earlier this summer, Microsoft seized 6 domains that stole information from businesses by creating domains that looks similar to Microsoft’s and asking for login information from users. This attempt…
I’ll be holding live tech sessions on Wednesdays @ 8:00pm EST via Microsoft Teams and streamed via Facebook Live through Nuage Logic. These sessions will be focused around technology. 8:00 to 8:10pm: Answering takeaway questions asked during previous live stream. 8:10 to 8:40pm: Screen share sessions and advice on solving tech issues. 8:40 to 9:00pm:…
I ran into an interesting issue where a Windows 10 VM wouldn’t clone. This was a fresh installation of Windows 10 based from an ISO customized with MSMG, which is by far one of the best methods when removing the junk from Windows 10, especially the unwanted apps. Make sure to document your removals and…
I ran into an issue where a XenDesktop VDA didn’t appear to be saving changes. This is a huge deal if the machine begins a Windows Update and the update requires a reboot. Yep, you’ve guessed it, it causes a continuous Windows boot loop. That’s another issue in-and-of-itself. Check out that resolution here. In earlier…
I’m guessing you’re in the situation where Windows decided to “Update and Shutdown/Restart”, but when your system comes back up, it continues to update and reboot over, and over, and over, and over. Well, that’s typically caused by a corrupt Windows update or the VM isn’t saving it’s changes. Here’s a way to stop your…
Running Windows 7 desktops with personal vdisks and SCCM can be a difficult task, especially with the amount of space and data SCCM uses to cache it’s installs/uninstalls. A typical software package can range anywhere from 10MB to 1GB+, this is where the following script comes in handy. What the script does is cleans the…
When trying to launch a published application in XenApp 6.x, the following screen appears for a minute, then disappears without launching the application. This is because the default XenApp 6.x application launch timeout is set to 60 seconds.The resolution is to set the timeout to a greater value using the following registry key: Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Citrix\wfshell\TWIType:…