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HIPAA Patient Data Retention time for South Carolina, SC – How Long Should I Keep My Patient Files?

A common question for doctors, medical professionals, and IT staff who deal with patient data, medical files, or HIPAA related info is, “How long do I need to keep all of our patient records?” HIPAA protects patients’ rights to access their personal files.  Patient Data and access to Patient Files in the state of South Carolina should be stored and accessible for a time period of 10 years for adults from the last treatment and…

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How do I become HIPAA compliant? (a checklist)

A little housekeeping before we answer the question. This article is not a definitive list of what is required for HIPAA compliance; you should assign a Privacy Officer to review each rule in its entirety. This article is intended to point you in the right direction. So you have determined that you are handling protected health information (PHI) and that you need to be HIPAA compliant. What’s next? What steps need to be taken in…

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(Solved) 2502/2503 Error When Installing from a .msi File

Sometime, you will get a 2502/2503 error message when trying to install a program from a .msi file. Here’s how to fix it. Log in as an administrator Navigate to the C:\windows directory in file explorer Find and right-click the temp folder in this directory Select properties from the menu and click the security tab Make a note of the permissions for the following: All Application Packages Creator/Owner Users Trusted Installers Click the edit button…

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(Solved!) How to Disable “You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source” in Outlook on Windows Remote Desktop Server

(Solved!) How to Disable “You should only open attachments from a trustworthy source” in Outlook on Windows Remote Desktop Server.   Recently we set up an RDP server for a client who moves around from location to location.  In their outlook profile when the user tried to open a PDF a message would pop up: Solution: Login as administrator to your RDP server Promote the user having the issue to a local computer administrator on…

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How To: Setup Active Directory Roaming Profiles with Folder Redirection Server 2016, Server 2012, Server 2008R2

How to Setup Active Directory Roaming Profiles with Folder Redirection with Administrative access to files and folders and without user access to other people’s profiles. First a warning.  Do not forward the App Data folder.  From our practical application, we found many programs require your App Data Local and App Data Roaming folder to be editable on the local computer and may respond incorrectly to different installations and configurations.  This includes most networked programs particularly…

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Solved! Login Failed, slow logins, winlogon notification subscriber gpclient error taking 450 seconds to boot

A client was having an issue logging into their computer.  First was a blue screen with the login failed because the unique identifier is not supported.  After fixing that issue, We faced two errors today with our roaming profile. Error 1: First logon fails with “The universal unique identifier (UUID) type is not supported Error 2: Here is the winlogin notification about the gpclient in event viewer we received after taking 10 minutes to login.

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Synchronize time with external NTP server on Windows Server 2008, Server 2008R2

Here’s how to synchronize time with an external NTP server on Windows Server 2008 (R2). Posted on 16 November 2009 by Marek in Microsoft, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 Time synchronization is an important aspect for all computers on the network. By default, the clients’ computers get their time from a Domain Controller and the Domain Controller gets his time from the domain’s PDC Operation Master. Therefore…

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How to show and hide a Windows Update or Driver Update from Windows 10

Recently I’ve had an issue with Windows Update where it wouldn’t install a particular update.  It would crash and make Windows boot screen stay in a perpetual startup or “Welcome” screen.  I was able to cancel the update by restarting which rolled the computer back to a time before the update, then it would re-download the update and crash again.  Unlike Microsoft Windows updates of old, there is no place natively to view updates and…

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Getting files to show up in Network folder

Remove the following registry keys HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRemoteRecursiveEvents HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoRemoteChangeNotify HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] “DirectoryCacheLifetime”=dword:00000000 Restart explorer and try again! The keys didn’t exist for me, but I added them as DWord with a value of 0 (zero) and restarted Explorer and it worked. http://www.teamas.co.uk/2012/02/windows-2008-r2-shared-files-do-not.html https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/947489ae-dc86-45f0-ad5e-463a62e1d59f/files-not-showing-up-in-networked-drive…

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