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.

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.

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.

Cisco VPN connected, unable to access network

Situation:
User is connected to VPN.  Able to ping user computer from inside the network.  User is able to complete one ping request to internal server, others time out.
Things I did:
Disconnected and reconnected the VPN, no change.
Looking at IPs, I noticed what IPCONFIG gave me, and what the cisco adapter said were different.  Weird.
Anyway, to fix it, I ended the Cisco Anyconnect program, started it up and reconnected.  It pulled a new IP and I was able to access the network again.

This could have been a timing thing, but after I ended all the processes for Cisco and reconnected it, everything went back to normal.

Finding past logins / How to see when someone logged on

I was recently tasked with finding computer login times for multiple users.
The internet seemed to make it a daunting task, talking about needing to have things setup before hand to track.
Here's what I did:
I opened Event Viewer on my computer.
Right Click Event Viewer on the tree and select Connect to Another Computer
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766438.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Expand Windows Logs
Select Security logs
Filter Current Log for Event ID 4648
4624 is also a logon event, but there's way more of them.  4648 is less frequent, and coincided with first logon.

you do not have sufficient privileges to delete user exchange activesync devices

I had some users that I couldn't delete and I was getting this error:
you do not have sufficient privileges to delete
And it would give the CN, OU and mentioned the ExchangeActiveSyncDevices.
Saying it was protected from accidental deletion.

To get around this, I had to Enable Inheritance on the user.  To do this, you have to have Advanced Features enabled.
This is done in View of Active Directory Users and Computers.  In the window of AD Users and Computers, select View and Advanced Features.

Now, right click on the user in question and select Properties, go to the Security tab and click Advanced.

Put a check mark in 'Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent' (2012 functional level)

Now you can delete the user without getting the error.

Make DFS use FQDN

First, remove the server from the Namespaces

Launch powershell as an admin and run this:

Dfsutil.exe server registry dfsdnsconfig set <ServerName>



Reboot the server



Add to the namespace, if configured correctly, the server path will show up \\<ServerName>.<Domain> under the path in Folder Targets.

I recently added a third server to the DFS, and it didn't show up with .domain in the folder targets.  It did show up with its FQDN in Namespace Servers.

If your server is not displaying its FQDN in folder targets, and you've already followed the above steps, go to Replication, and go to the Replication Group.  Select the Replicated Folders tab, right click the folders, removing them from the namespace, right click and add them back.  Boom, server.domain FQDN populates for the new server.

Remove and prevent Windows 8 apps from installing on new profiles

Using Windows 8 in a network environment is annoying.  Its a decent OS, I mean, it works fine enough.  But the fact that it auto installs apps for every user is annoying to say the least.  Every time a new person logs into the computer it sets up a bunch of news and food apps that use the network.
Uninstalling them from a specific user account is easy enough, simply right click the tile and remove.  But the next person that logs in gets all the apps again... Until I found this gem of the internet:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Remove-All-Pre-Installed-Windows-8-Metro-Apps-328110.shtml

Get-AppXProvisionedPackage -online | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage –online

Log in with a new user, it'll do the "Hi...... lets get started...." etc etc, but it won't install any apps.

Combine this with Go to the Desktop instead of Start (go to desktop, right click task bar, Properties, Navigation, check "When I sign in or close all apps on a screen, go to the desktop.") and you have a pretty normal windows OS.

Updates:
You have to run powershell as admin.
This also works in Windows 10

VMWare machine, CD/DVD drive connecting

I was setting up a new machine, attaching an ISO to the CD/DVD of the virtual machine.  I switched to another ISO and it got stuck in a (connecting) status.  Restarting the virtual machine didn't help, I had to close all the way out of vSphere, when I reconnected I was able to add the ISO and image the virtual machine.

Missing Site Actions button in sharepoint

For me, my user wasn't in the Owners group.  Some sites would come up with Site Actions, some wouldn't.  Once I put myself in the Owners group I had full access and Site Actions appeared on every page.