Year: 2015

Skype 7.5 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype 7.5 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

Skype version 7.5 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and […]

SCCM Collection based on Active Directory Organisation Unit (OU) Membership

SCCM Collection based on Active Directory Organisation Unit (OU) Membership

You may want to create a Configuration Manager Collection based upon an Active Directory Organisation Unit. To do this you can use the following WQL code and then simply amend the last part to be the Organisation Unit that you want to base the Collection on: SELECT SMS_R_USER.ResourceID, SMS_R_USER.ResourceType, SMS_R_USER.Name, SMS_R_USER.UniqueUserName, SMS_R_USER.WindowsNTDomain FROM SMS_R_User WHERE […]

Microsoft Xbox One Package – Special Offer Code for TechyGeeksHome.co.uk Guests

Microsoft Xbox One Package – Special Offer Code for TechyGeeksHome.co.uk Guests

We have the opportunity here for someone to take advantage of an amazing offer we can provide to you for a Microsoft Xbox One Package Deal for just £314.99 GBP. As part of the deal, you will receive the following: Xbox One console (including one wireless controller) Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One 3-month Xbox […]

DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator

DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator

If you have an old 16-bit application that you need to run on Windows 7 or 8.1 or maybe even an old classic game you want to play, you will find that the chances are the modern operating systems will not run them and you will run into an error like this for Windows 7: […]

Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

We recently came across issues where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) where running extremely slowly and we could not figure out why. After some investigation, we found out that one of our remote Distribution Points (DP) was not working correctly and that rebuilds on one of the sites where actually pulling the image […]

VMWare ESXi 5.5 – Adding RealTek and Atheros Network Card Drivers

VMWare ESXi 5.5 – Adding RealTek and Atheros Network Card Drivers

We have been trying to set up a new virtual host using VMWare ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 with an Atheros AR8161 network card. As this is one of the unsupported network cards, it kept failing upon the bootup setup process – as expected of course. As most of you will know, you can “inject” network […]

Create installation media for Windows 8.1

Create installation media for Windows 8.1

If you need to download the Windows 8.1 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 8.1 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn […]

Microsoft Office 2016 Product Key

Microsoft Office 2016 Product Key

Microsoft have now released the preview version of their upcoming Office 2016 release and you can now download a trial version from the list of choices below: Download Get Office 2016 Preview (32 bit) Get Office 2016 Preview (64 bit) Use the product key provided below to activate your trial: NKGG6-WBPCC-HXWMY-6DQGJ-CPQVG Once the trial period […]

The user profile service failed the logon error fix

The user profile service failed the logon error fix

We recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!) […]

Create Installation Media for Windows 7

Create Installation Media for Windows 7

If you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn […]

Re-enable NPAPI in Google Chrome

Re-enable NPAPI in Google Chrome

You may have recently noticed that if you are a Google Chrome user – your plugins have started to not work in certain situations. This can be for flash, silverlight or shockwave amongst others. This is the start of the end for NPAPI. Well, there is a reason for this…. On the Chromium blog there […]

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