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April 11, 2016April 11, 2016Desktop, Windows Technologies

Resolving Windows Updates Download and Install Errors on Windows 10

Scenario: Windows Updates stuck at downloading Windows Updates Windows Updates reports Error for “Update for Microsoft Office 2013 (KB2837655) RT” Event Viewer reports below error in the logs: Log Name: ApplicationSource: Windows Error ReportingDate: 4/11/2016 1:04:28 AMEvent ID: 1001Task Category: NoneLevel: InformationKeywords: ClassicUser: N/AComputer: HomePC1Description:Fault bucket 125972652706, type 5Event Name: WindowsUpdateFailure3Response: Not availableCab Id: 0 Problem signature:P1: 10.0.10586.162P2: 800706d9P3: C3EDFD8F-C0AC-4496-9BEF-D7DE6E59AA45P4: DownloadP5: 200P6: 0P7: 0P8: UpdateOrchestratorP9: {7971F918-A847-4430-9279-4A52D1EFE18D}P10: 0 Attached files: These files may be available here:C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\NonCritical_10.0.10586.162_b13b8739944280c95dcac07e2ceede31d957cb2e_00000000_1a207812 Analysis symbol: Rechecking for solution: 0Report Id: 2f2a4057-ff53-11e5-8d94-c0cb38f42041Report Status: 0Hashed bucket: 5060ca99256631c7ea14375704e2d961 Windows Update reports Error 0x800706d9 for some of the updates installation failure […]

March 10, 2016Desktop, Self Management

Excel Formula to calculate Number Of Days in a Month

Requirements: You want to build a calculator sheet that requires you to input number of days in a given month. Solution: Excel doesn’t have any built-in function to return the number of days in a month. I’ve learned below two formulas that does the job. Both of them requires a date input and will return the number of days in the month that date belongs to. Hopefully this may come handy for you. =DAY(EOMONTH(B5,0)) =DAY(DATE(YEAR(B5),MONTH(B5)+1,1)-1) A Sample table to display number of days in all months of this year 2016. References: Number-of-Days-Calculator: Days-Calculator.xlsx

February 13, 2016February 19, 2016Careers, Citrix, Desktop, Virtualization

Most Common Interview Questions and Answers on Citrix Technologies

Most Common Interview Questions and Answers on Citrix Technologies including XenApp, XenDesktop, Provisioning Services and NetScaler, etc., This is an attempt to make a list of typical questions you can expect in the initial technical round for Citrix Administrator, Engineer, L1, L2, L3 and SME positions. Apparently most people can answer these questions just by preparation but it makes to the interviewer about how strong the candidate in basic overview. What is Delivery Controller? Delivery Controller is the Core component of XenDesktop v5 & above, using FMA. It is the server that centrally manages the XenDesktop site. At least one […]