QuickBooks 2012 Printing with Windows 8.1

You may not be able to print or print to a PDF with QuickBooks 2012 and Windows 8.1. You get an error related to cannot create PDF file. Just follow the link below and you can then print the invoice to a PDF and then email or print, etc.

Download PDF Creator 1.6.1 from http://www.pdfforge.org/
Set PDF Creator as the default printer (optional)
On the printing window make sure it is printing from PDF Creator (click on the down arrow and choose it)
On that window after entering your info
Click on email on the lower part of window
Note: you may need to restart QuickBooks and Outlook, etc.
Note: You may also need to do some configuration within QuickBooks for Outlook other than that this process really works!
 
Reference
https://community.intuit.com/questions/721592-quickbooks-2012-on-windows-8-can-t-send-an-invoice-get-error-your-forms-were-not-sent-because-qb-could-not-create-the-necessary-pdf-files-i-tried-to-install-the-amyuri-file-but-it-loops

Unable to extend the partition check if there is sufficient disk space on the disk

When trying to extend a Windows Server 2003 partition using either Windows DiskPart or Dell’s ExtPart you get a message referencing “unable to extend the partition check if there sufficient disk space on the disk”. However, you do have sufficient disk space available. This happens because you are trying to add unallocated space to the drive that is not contiguous to the unallocated space. The unallocated space can only be added to the last partition not the other partitions before it. So in this case I had a C: drive a D: drive and a P: drive. I was trying to add space to the D: drive. The unallocated space can only be added to the last partition which is the P: drive.

If you were to look at disk management you can see that the unallocated space is at the end of the P: drive and therefore, cannot be added to the C: or the D: drive.

If you want to add the unallocated space to the C: or D: drive then you will need to use a 3^rd party utility such as Paragon or GParted or AOMEI, etc. otherwise you can only add the unallocated space to the last partition.

Exchange 2010 Mgt Console initialization failue

When opening up the Exchange 2010 Management Console "EMC"
You may see this error :  Server Initialization Failed
The WS-Management service cannot process the request. The user load quota of 1000 requests per 2 seconds has been exceeded. Send future requests at a slower rate or raise the quota for this user. The next request from this user will not be approved for at least Z milliseconds. 

The fix is to do a iisreset
Make sure you open a command prompt as an elevated user in order to run iisreset

How to change the RPCClientAccessServer for Exchange 2013

With Exchange 2013 if you have a DAG the DR server can often take on the RCPClientAccessServer name for the database.  
So you think you can use the shell command huh? Set-MailboxDatabase "Mailbox Database Name" -RpcClientAccessServer "ServerName.abccompanyname.com"
Nope this command does not exist anymore with Exchange 2013 server. So you have to use ADSIEDIT to change the legacy DN name. See below for how to change it.
Took me a while to track this down. I found a lot of hits about it a legacy DN and hwo to change it with Exchange 2010 but nothing led me to the actual location within ADSIEDIT
ADSIEDIT.msc
-Open the Configuration Container
-CN=Services
-CN=Microsoft Exchange
-CN=domain name
-CN=Administrative Groups
-CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYxxxxxxxxxDLT)
-CN=Databases
-CN=DatabaseName
Select the DatabaseName, right-click Properties
In the Attribute Editor tab, find LegacyExchangeDN, select edit
Replace the existing servername with servername that you want
Select OK

Now to verify - from the Exchange Shell run this command below
Get-MailboxDatabase "MailboxDatabaseName" | fl Name, RpcClientAccessServer
The RPCClientAccessServer should now point to the servername that you changed above with ADSIEDIT

What to do when SQL Express VIM database has exceeded the 4GB limit

Problem -Event ID: 1827, MSSQL$SQLEXP_VIM

CREATE DATABASE or ALTER DATABASE failed because the resulting cumulative database size would exceed your licensed limit of 4096 MB per database.

You also may see Event ID 1105 in the Event Logs

Solution- Truncate the VCenter Tables to create free disk space

VPX_EVENT Table

·         Open Microsoft Server Management Studio Express

·         Connect to Servername\SQL Database

·         Expand databases- VIM_VCDB, Tables

·         Locate and Right-click on dbo.VPX_PARAMETER table and click Open

·         Modify the event.maxAge to 30, and modify the event.maxAgeEnabled value to true

·         Modify task.maxAge to 30, and modify the task.maxAgeEnabled value to true

·         Run the SQL built-in stored procedure:

·         Go  to the VIM_VCDB, Programability, Stored Procedures

·         Right-click on dbo.cleanup_events_tasks_proc and click Execute Stored Procedure and Select OK. - Note: This process may take a while. This process purges the data from the vpx_event, vpx_event_arg, and vpx_task tables based on the date specified for maxAge.

Solution- Shrink the VCenter VIM_VCDB database and files

To shrink the size of the vCenter Server SQL database and transaction logs:

·         Connect to the vCenter Server database using the SQL Management Studio Express.

·         Stop the VMware VirtualCenter Server service.

·         To Shrink the Database- Right-click the vCenter Server database

·         Select Tasks, Select Shrink Files

·         Select Tasks, Select Shrink Database. Note: This process can take a while based on how much space to shrink on the database

When these processes have completed successfully completed, close the SQL Management Studio Express and start the VMware Virtual VCenter Server service

Also make sure that the default Statistics Level is set to 1 in VCenter

·         Using the vSphere Client, log into vCenter Server as an administrator

·         Go to Administrator, VCenter Server Settings, Statistics

·         Under Statistics Intervals, ensure the Statistics Level column is set to 1

·         To change the value, select the Interval Duration, click Edit and select Level 1 from the dropdown

Note:  VCenter Server may also require a restart. Issues with VCenter and database size may also affect your backups.