Windows Server 2016 - Project On-Site

Windows Server 2016 - Project On-Site

Took up this project from a company. Went down to their office located in Kaki Bukit, Singapore

I took over their IT Systems. It was totally in a mass and no one there knows anything about it

Heard that the previous IT Staff left without handling over. I've got to start from scratch tracing back and find out what previously was done and how the Windows Server was setup

When I booted it up it is linked to a domain where I do not have the username and password

I've prepared a USB flash drive and created a bootable image. Boot it up in WinPE environment

From there I am able to access into the File Explorer (Boot Disk Explorer) to copy out his data into an External Hard Disk as Backup in case if anything goes wrong with it

Data copying and Backup took me almost 4 hours of wait

Than I run some commands in the Command Prompt (CMD) which actually does is to reset Active Directory Domain Controller administrator account and password

Finally I am now able to login to the Windows Server

They thanks me for helping them to get back administrator account access rights

Huawei Mate 30 Pro - Installing Google (GMS)

Huawei Mate 30 Pro - Installing Google (GMS)

I've receive many calls from customer asking to install Google (GMS) on their Huawei device

I've done 2. One of it is the Mate 30 Pro and the other model is P40 Pro

Today took up one more set. It also doesn't have Google Mobile Services (GMS)

This time round it is more harder to install Google (GMS) as Huawei has updated their devices with EMUI 11 (11.0.0.189) June 2021 Security Patch and now it runs on Harmony OS 2

So to Install the full Google (GMS). I would need to use software like the Hisuite Proxy to do it 

Downgraded from Harmony OS 2 back to EMUI 11 (11.0.0.189) and than downgrade again back to EMUI 10 (10.0.0.134)

From there the method to Install Google (GMS) can work

You can see that the Play Store, Gmail, Youtube and Google Map all runs well

HP Omen 15 (2017) Laptop

HP Omen 15 (2017) Laptop - i7 7700HQ 

Went down to customer place on Saturday morning. Checked on his laptop

It is unable to boot into Windows. It keeps rebooting at the Blue Screen "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We'll restart for you"

This Laptop has a SSHD 1TB + 128GB. Where the OS is installed in the HDD and using the 128GB to Cache the Windows System

I tried to repair the corrupted Windows partition first. Boot it up using the Windows Recovery Disk open up the command prompt and perform a Disk Check (chkdsk) on the drive

It came out to be the Windows Systems file that has been badly damage that caused the Windows 10 unable to boot

Than at last resort using a Linux bootable disk to access the Drive. I than copy out all his Data in the "C" into an External Hard Disk

Perform a "Reset this PC" and reinstall the whole Windows 10 System

On-Site IT Support - HP, ThinkPad and Macbook Computers

Today went down to an International School for an On-Site IT Support

There are HP, ThinkPad (Windows) and Macbook (Mac OS)

My clients from BHI asked me to help them as they are unable to print from the Macbook and the Canon Printer

I did some checks and found that the drivers wasn't installed properly on the Macbook

On the Macbook they are also facing some issues when using Google Meets. The Video calling function doesn't work correctly on the Safari browser, When I tried a few times it will crash

Found a solution and advise them to use Chrome browser when running the Google Meet video call

The Thinkpad display is dim no matter how I set it to the maximum brightness (100%)

Than I found out that it was the display (Hardware) faulty. Which require to change the display panel

Google Ads and Google Analytics - Project (Follow Up)

Today just did a follow up of the Google Ads and Analytics project that I did for one of my client

I had linked up the Google Ads with the Google Analytics

After a few months of running the Google Ads campaign

Finally there is more data in the Google Analytics for me to analyse

Using the Live data. It's tell me who are my targeted customers and where they are from

with Locations, Calls and who visited the website

These data have given me an overview and allows me to make better decisions on how to run my advertisement and getting more potential customers

WhatsApp Data Recovery for Android - Samsung Galaxy S9+

A customer called me up asking for help, while switching over to her new phone she notice that all the past WhatsApp messages were gone.

There were important messages in the WhatsApp for her next day meeting where she had forgotten to backup while transferring over to the new phone

I took over the old Samsung Galaxy S9+ and than notice that the WhatsApp chat history has already been deleted

I decided to give it a try to see whether a data recovery would work for WhatsApp

1.) Turn on OEM Unlocking and USB Debugging in Developer Options which is hidden in the settings

2.) Backdate the date to 7 days before so the OEM Unlocking options will appear

3.) Get it Rooted for the Data Recovery Software to work

I than did a scan of the Internal Memory of the WhatsApp Folder where the database (messages) were store in

Successfully recovered and found 10135 files since Year 2014 - present

Customer thanks me for the help and my services where she got back the important messages that she need