Troubleshooting

“We need to remove some older apps” If you’re reading this you’ve probably already download the installer and have noticed a scary warning when starting the install: “We need to remove some older apps”. If you haven’t see this warning yet here’s the deal. Apparently some older apps, such as Visio Professional 2013 and Skype for Business 2015 don’t work with Office 2016. If you continue the installation, these “incompatible” apps will be removed and you won’t be able to install the old version again. ...

Backup job failed Occasionally one of our Veeam backup jobs will fail and most of the time it is due to shadow copy or VSS writer issue which a simple reboot will resolve, this solution has become our default answer to a failed backup with an error mentioning the words “shadow copy” or “VSS”. One of our SQL servers had a failed backup last night and gave us the error “Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writer’s data”, here is the full error message: ...