Scan from Epson ET-4850 Printer to a PC

Epson ET-4850

I was recently setting up Epson ET-4850 EcoTank Printer/Scanner and found that it cannot scan directly to a network share on a PC or a NAS device. This is quite disappointing as the printer is quite expensive and in my experience scanning to a network share is normally the most reliable method when it's properly set up.

One workaround is to set up scanning to a OneDrive folder via EpsonConnect. Obviously, this relies on the Internet connection and Epson services being available. Another option is scanning to a PC via Epson Scan software. There is also the WSD method, but I didn't go there...

To scan using Epson ET-4850 when the scan is initiated from a PC, all you need is Epson Scan 2 software that can be downloaded from the Epson Support website.

Epson ET-4850 Screen

However, if you want to initiate the scan from the printer itself (Scan > Computer), you need three different software packages:

  • Epson Scan 2
  • Epson Event Manager
  • Epson Smart Scan

Epson Scan 2  and Epson Event Manager can be downloaded from the same Epson Support page. For some reason, it doesn't contain Epson Smart Scan, which can be downloaded from here.

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Outlook stops updating shared mailbox folders

Issue

All shared mailboxes attached to a users' Office 365 Exchange account suddenly stopped updating in Outlook. The user can still send emails via shared mailboxes, but can't see the email they just sent in the in sent items folder. Also, no new emails show up in Inbox. The user's own mailbox is working fine.

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Invalid Microsoft Office 2016 license overrides Office 2019

 1001 invalid microsoft office 2016 license 1

Issue

A Windows 10 PC has Microsoft Office 2016 installed that was activated with some sort of corporate/business license. The license is no longer valid and occasionally throws warnings about possible software counterfeiting.

A user has a valid MS Office 2019 Home and Business license. After uninstalling MS Office 2016 and installing Office 2019, nothing seemingly changes - MS Office still appears as Office 2016 activated with the same invalid corporate license, even though Apps in Windows Settings and Control Panel correctly shows that Office 2019 is installed.

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L2TP/IPsec stopped working in Windows 11 / Windows 10

Issue

Windows 11 PCs suddenly stopped connecting to L2TP/IPsec VPN hosted on SonicWall firewall. The following error is displayed immediately after clicking Connect:

The L2TP connection attempt failed

Can't connect to VPN
The L2TP connection attempt failed because the security layer encountered a processing error during initial negotiations with the remote computer.

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