Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
QuickBooks Enterprise Business Planner Unable to Print
Recently had someone try using the Business Planner tool in QuickBooks (Enterprise v11) and after entering all of the info, ran into an issue with the preview button being greyed out and unable to view the report. After following the instructions on the Intuit knowledge base article, the preview button was now visable but when [...]
PowerShell Ping Test
Used this little script the other day for a basic network test to an access point I was testing. It just pings the device every 10 seconds (or whatever you set it at) and only outputs when there is an error and the time it occurred. Made for an easy way to leave this running over [...]
Recover Offline Files and Folders for Vista / Win 7
After moving over several systems from an old SBS2003 domain to a new SBS2011 Essentials server, one user noticed that there were several files missing from their documents. To be more accurate, the files were there but they were very old versions of the file, not the current one they had been working on. After [...]
Set default printer with batch file script
For some reason QuickBooks seems to like changing the default printer on some workstations. Haven’t found the cause yet but decided to put in this work-around to make everyone happy. Added this to a login batch file that runs on the system to reset the default printer for each local computer: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /q [...]
QuickBooks Enterprise Scheduled Backups
Recently upgraded to QuickBooks Enterprise 2011 and after setting up the scheduled backups, noticed they weren’t running. Manually backups ran fine but scheduled backups would just create a file in the backup folder called QBTempBackup.tmp followed by the date. After doing some digging around online I found out there’s a QB Backup log file that [...]
Running app from Mapped Drive – Avoiding UAC Prompts
While reinstalling a Windows Vista system the other day I ran into a problem with the UAC security prompt. The primary applicaiton that is run on this computer is not installed locally but run directly from a mapped drive. Normally the user just clicks on the shortcut and the app launches but after a clean [...]
Copy file and append date and time
Recently set this up for someone and then had someone else looking to do the same thing about a week later. Figured it would be good to post it here for future reference. The first example adds just the date: @echo off REM ***************************************************** REM ** DatedBackup.bat REM ** This batch file will make a [...]
Thin client Setup notes HP t5740e
While setting up a new HP t5740e thin client for testing, I needed to install Adobe Reader. The problem was I kept getting the error that there was not enough room on the drive. There was still over 3GB remaining but the Temp drive (in My Computer > Advanced > Environment Variables) was setup to [...]
Map Printer and Set to Default in Batch File
While setting up a new thin client system (HP t5740e) to test with I wanted to make things as easy on myself as possible when it came to the printers. I know we go through printers and have to change them out as they die…I didn’t want to have to log in to each system [...]
AT&T Uverse
Made the switch today over to Uverse (the Voice, TV, and Internet service from AT&T.) After reading what I could find on it I wasn’t sure what the installer would want to do to setup at our house so rather than trying to pre-run wire, I just setup conduit through the attic to where I [...]