Monday, December 14, 2015

Vizio soundbar is blinking 2 dots

Situation:
Vizio sound bar works. But all of a sudden, no sound.  The movie is playing fine, but no sound. On the sound bar itself, two indicator lights are blinking.
You've cycled through to make sure you on the right input, even checked the back of the soundbar to verify what number port you're in (indicator lights work in 2s. bottom two are input one, next two are input 2 and so on.)
Do you have the single bar? If so, you're like me. And the issue is the audio signal trying to do 5.1 or something.  Go into your audio settings (check device manual for specifics, your specific manual can be found here: www.google.com) and change the audio input.
All done.

The store driver failed to submit event ... mailbox ... error 1012

Ever get this message?
Want to know what mailbox it is?
In the Exchange Powershell:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity (all the numbers after 'mailbox')


If you run the cmdlet and get a blank space under StorageLimitStatus, this is 'by design', it seems to be a common error when you migrate the mailbox from 2010 to 2013. The current (12/14) work around is to move the mailbox to a new database.

Friday, December 4, 2015

Visio sound bar not pairing with iPhone

Are you having issues getting your iPhone to sync with your Vizio sound bar?
Have you successfully connected your iPhone to your Vizio sound bar previously?
Then you're in the same boat I was in.
There it was in my remembered list, not connected.
I ran a force pair on the Vizio (holding the bluetooth button until the lights start flashing up and down.) still nothing.
I figure this flashing light meant bluetooth was on, so while it was in force pair, I removed the remembered device, it dropped down to available devices, I clicked it, and boom, connected.
I'm streaming Pandora through my sound bar again.

Life is good.

Oh, Hanukkah's in a few days, and Christmas is right around the corner. Be excellent to each other and enjoy the time you have with family, soon they'll be dead and you'll miss their annoying antics.

Thursday, December 3, 2015

The text you typed is too long. Please shorten it and try to save it again. FIXED

If you are pasting a corporate signature and you are getting this error, it might not be due to the 8kb size restriction.
I was getting this error when accessing OWA and trying to add my signature in Firefox. Another user got this error when adding their signature in Safari.

When adding the same exact signature, the same exact way, in Internet Explorer we were able to add the signature.

So, before you give up and say everyone using OWA will have to have plain text signatures, try adding it through IE.

Getting RTL8812au passed to Virtualbox VM (Ubuntu)

There are no guarantees, I just write these notes so I can come back to them. First, get the dongle working on the host OS. After going thro...