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Recently, I had come across following error message when one of the users was trying to copy files to Network folder. His folder was setup with offline files option so that files are available to user when network connection to server is either poor or not available. Error 0x80070718: Not enough quota is available to process this command After doing it bit of a search, I found a following solution to above error message. This is caused by Offline files. I have followed these steps on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit PC.           Open Control Panel           Go to Sync centre           Select Manage offline Files from left side column           An Offline files box will appear, click on Disk Usage tab           Click on Change limits button, change limit to required space.           Click on OK button twice. Hope you find it ...

I have Nagios Xi 4.3.2 installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 (Mapio) . Recently, I had an issue with my Nagios monitoring tool. It stopped monitoring my devices. When I checked further, I found out that NDO2DB service stopped working. Because of that, I could not see most recent status of any of the devices monitored by Nagios. I logged on to Read hat box and tried below command to check the status of the service: #systemctl status ndo2db You can also use following command to check any service status #Service ndo2db status I tried following commands to start/restart ndo2db service. #systemctl start ndo2db OR #systemctl restart ndo2db After applying above commands, I ran following command again to check status but it failed to start #systemctl status ndo2db After doing bit of searching on this issue, I found the solution. I entered following commands to start NDO2DB service. #service nagios stop #service ndo2db stop #rm -f /usr/...

Recently, I had to move Pagefile.sys from C: drive to another drive on a server to free up some space. Page file is used as a virtual memory in Windows. Generally, you can find on C:\Pagefile.sys . It is a hidden file and you won’t be able to see it until you changes settings in Windows Explorer not to hide protected operating system files. To move the Pagefile to a new drive, follow these steps. You can perform these steps on any Windows Vista, or Windows 7 on wards or Windows server 2003 on wards.   Go to Control Panel and then System and Security . Now, click on Advanced system settings on the left side column. System properties box will appear, click on Advanced tab. Under Performance , click on Settings … button Performance Options box will appear, click on Advance tab. In Virtual Memory section, click on Change… button Virtual Memory box will appear. In this box, untick Automatically manage paging file size for all drives Select the drive lette...

Hi All, you may have already noticed that when you right click on any application on Windows 10 PC, you can see “Run as Administrator” option. But “Run as different user” option is missing. To get this option, you’ll make a make a change in registry.   Note :  Please backup registry and make a system restore point before making changes to Registry. Click on  Start . Type  Regedit  and press  Enter  key. In Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer        If you do not find this key, right click on Windows key and select new key. Rename it to Explorer . Now, in the right side pane, right click and add DWORD value ShowRunasDifferentuserinStart Right click on ShowRunasDifferentuserinStart and click on Modify… Change its value to 1 and click on OK . Close Registry Editor and reboot PC. Once you restart your PC, you can find Run as different user option is available w...

Hi All, in this post I am going to share information on how can you update an attribute(s) in AD for multiple objects. In this post, I am using a CSV file that contains users’ First Name, Last Name, their login name and Employee ID. I wanted to update Employee ID for all the users listed in CSV file. To achieve this, I have complied a PowerShell script that uses CSV file and update AD attributes for multiple users. CSV file: I saved CSV file in C:\ADTest.CSV . I ran following PowerShell script as admin. This script import CSV data, updates EmployeeID data for each login name (sAMAccountName) listed in CSV file. #Import Active Directory module Import-Module ActiveDirectory #Import CSV file $Obj = Import-Csv "C:\ADTest.csv" foreach ( $Usr in $Obj ) { Get-ADUser -Filter "sAMAccountName -eq ' $( $u . sAMAccountName) '" -properties * | set-aduser -replace @{employeeID = " $( $u . employeeID) " } -...

Hi All, this is my very first post on Windows 10 phone. I have a Windows 10 phone. Today, I saw following error message on phone. It didn’t allow me to unlock my phone using 4 digit pin I had set. The “Emergency calls” was the only option available to me. Error: This device has been locked for security reasons. Connect your device to a power source for at least two hours, then restart it to try again. I tried performing soft reboot but it didn’t fix. After doing a bit of research, I found a solution. Make sure that your phone is connected to Internet during this process. To fix this issue, follow these steps: Launch https://account.microsoft.com/devices on a web browser on another PC/Tablet or a smart phone Login using your Microsoft account (it is the same account you’ve used to configure your phone). Once you’ve logged in, Select your phone. On the next page, click on Lock button. A box will appear asking to enter 6 digit pin , a number where you can be reached (op...

I would like to share some information about SNR margin and Loop Attenuation values for your ADSL connection. These are very important to determine the performance of the Internet connection. I strongly suggest that you should use this information as guide only. These values may vary for different types of Internet connection such as ADSL, ADSL Max or Fibre connection. SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) margin measures strength of the DSL signal to Noise ratio. Most of the modem manufactures suggest 6dB is the lowest to able to make Internet connection. The higher the value of SNR margin, better the connection. SNR Value (in dB) Internet connection status 6 or less Bad or may experience no sync or intermittent sync issue 7 – 10 Fair connection 11 – 20 Good connection with no sync issues 20 – 28 Excellent 29 or above Outstanding Loop Attenuation (Loop Att.) measures of how much the signal has degr...