With Microsoft announcement of plans to disable SMBv1, due to its security vulnerabilities, this leaves millions of photocopier machines unable to use scan to folders function. To circumvent this, you can manually enable SMBv1 by adding it back from Windows Features add-remove. For the newly launched Windows 11 operating system or computers upgraded with it, scan to folder once again no longer works despite of the following setup, which works perfectly for Windows 10 and before: Setting network to Private Window File and Printer Sharing Enable. Password Protected Sharing enabled. Relevant F ..read more

Virtualization Case Study A 20 Decade Old Business made to decide to dump their existing workflow Client Background A customer requested us to help with a business acquaintance of his; an old local machine part supply company, which has been in business since 1980. To date, their computers and database server are more than 7 years old Windows XP machines which are on the brink of suffering from mass failure. Such an event will be catastrophic for this business as they depended heavily on these computers to handle their inventory and fulfillment of orders and invoicing. Their setup ..read more

We’ve received a strange instruction from the IT Departments of my client’s Company’s head office; to request the manufacturer of an Asus notebook remove restrictions on using Microsoft Volume License on one of the employees ultrabook. The situation is that one of the employees purchased an Asus ultrabook from Best Denki Singapore and had it upgraded from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. However, when the Head Company’s IT activate its Microsoft 2016 volume license, they failed. The Microsoft Office Activation will keep popping out with a yellow bar that Microsoft Office will have limited f ..read more

A handful of customers came to me recently complaining about unable to access folders in their servers. It all ran fine initially until recently inquiries start coming in complaining about problem of this nature. What’s common with these customers are they all uses Windows 10 and their file servers are all Network Attached Storage (NAS) file servers which we installed for them. The drives are all properly mapped to their computer, however when user clicks on the mapped folder, Windows prompt “An error occurred while reconnecting M: to Microsoft Windows Network: The local device name is alread ..read more