Friday, February 26, 2016

Windows 10 Tips - Getting a Detailed Report About Your WiFi Connection































If you're getting some issues with your WiFi connection in Windows 10, here's a quick and nice way to get a detailed report without installing additional software:
  • Open a command line as an Administrator (Run As Administrator)
  • Now run the following command line:
    netsh WLAN show WLANreport
  • Now, open a browse and copy/paste the this path:
    C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/WlanReport/wlan-report-latest.html
And here's a nice and detailed report about all your wifi activity, errors, etc.

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

GPOs - Black Screen After Applying Wallpaper GPO [Solved]

And after 3 days of maniac troubleshooting, googling and...1 hour of Microsoft Premier Support this one it's finally solved!
Here's a quick resume of the issue and, in my case, what was happening.

Symptom
After apply a GPO to change Windows background to a corporate wallpaper for all users, instead of the changing to the correct image, users got a black screen.


Issue/Resolution
After 3 or 4 days of troubleshooting Microsoft gave me a nice way to quickly understand if this was a problem with our image or something else.
  • Get an image that originally comes with Windows, you can find them in "C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper\".
  • Now, copy the image to the same folder and the same name you've configured your GPO setting.
  • Reboot the machine
Now, if the image shows up, this probably means that there's an issue with your image.

In my case, the image that was delivered was 8 bit depth instead of 24 bit depth. This caused the issue.
After converting the image to 24bit depth (with Paint.NET for example) the corporate wallpaper showed up exactly how it should!


Hope this helps people struggling with this issue!