Happy New Year 2017!
We would like to wish all of our visitors a very Happy New Year. 2016 was a great year for us and we hope that 2017 will be happy and prosperous for you all. Happy New Year!
We would like to wish all of our visitors a very Happy New Year. 2016 was a great year for us and we hope that 2017 will be happy and prosperous for you all. Happy New Year!
We were recently talking to a friend about EA Access subscription and he said that it is a nightmare to cancel the subscription once you have activated it. Well we have had a look into it and it seems fairly straight forward to us but thought we would write up a quick post about how…
Sophos has always been an excellent anti-virus package for corporate users but you can now get Sophos for home use completely free of charge. You can create yourself an account with Sophos and then install on up to 10 computers for family and friends and also centrally manage them from a web console. Having been…
To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office15.0\Outlook\Resiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in…
This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for…
Over the last few days our Ultimate Settings Panel support forums seem to have been attacked by spam bots and screwed them all up! We have been here before with support forums so we are taking the decision to close them and we will now offer support via either a comments page or maybe a…
We have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some…
If you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the…
We would like to wish all our of visitors a very Merry Christmas today and we hope you got everything that you wished for and spent the day with the people you care about the most! Merry Christmas from all at TechyGeeksHome.
To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and…
So Christmas is almost upon us and I have decided it’s time for a self imposed tech detox for a few weeks and to spend some valuable time with the family. This means that I will not be updating the site very much at all for the next few weeks apart from a few pre-scheduled…
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition on PC. You can now order a digital download code for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition for just £27.99 down from £69.99 – all you have to do is click the link…
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Assassin’s Creed Unity on the Xbox One console. You can now order a digital download code for Assassin’s Creed Unity for just £1.49 – all you have to do is click the link below and process payment. You will then receive the…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 24.0.0.186. As always, you can download the executable file but if you want the MSI files so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog, you can get that here. The update is also…
Notepad++ has now been upgraded to version 7.2.2. You can download this latest version by clicking the download button below: Download Notepad++ v7.2.2 Notepad++ v7.2.2 bug-fixes: Fix auto-updater setting toggles between startups bug. Fix “Replace All” button shortcut accelerator in Replce dialog not working regression. Fix unusual plugin update prompt after upgrade to 7.2.1 version. We…
For those of you that are into the long running football simulation series Football Manager – we have just come across the game on offer on Amazon for just £18.00! Just click the link below to go to the offer and take advantage whilst you can. Football Manager 2017 Limited Edition – £18.00 Please note…
If you are using Exchange in our organisation and have dynamic distribution groups, you may want to get all the information about the individual users within these distribution groups and also list their email addresses. To do this, open up an Exchange Management Shell console and run the following script: $group = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup –identity “yourDL”…
Since asp.net web development team understands that working with images; you don’t always need web control. There are better options to this and in this post, they will talk about these options. Read this post to know more. Introduction For working with images in Asp.net, it is not always required to make use of web…
WCF WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. A communication-oriented set of APIs and a “runtime” inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API’s and products in the .NET space. It can and should be…
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 55.0.2883.75. If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer direct from…
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to…
The demo of the excellent flight simulator, X-Plane 11 is now available to download and play. Just click the button below to download the free demo now and take to the skies! X-Plane 11 Demo
If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want…
So it’s the start of a new month shortly and Xbox Live Gold members can again download some free games! It’s a really good month of free games this coming December with two extra games in Sleeping Dogs and Burnout Paradise. The full set of available games in December are as below: Xbox One: Sleeping…
We have recently been asked to report on Google Earth installations within our SCCM environment. So, as we were already collecting the EXE file information within our hardware inventory, we could make use of the SoftwareFile data in the SCCM SQL database. Also, having spent some time Googling a query for Google Earth, we found that…
Our second find of the day is this Air Fryer from Amazon selling today for just £39.99! Click the button below to take a look at this deal: Air Fryer – £39.99
So our first find of the day is this great offer on a 750GB SSD for just £105.99 from Amazon. Just click the link below to take a look at the offer: 750GB SSD – £105.99
So, its Black Friday – the day that everyone goes to the shop to have a fight over a crap TV that the shop has not been able to sell all year!! But, in all seriousness, there are a few really good deals out there and we will be keeping our eye out for any…
We are delighted to say that this post is our 1000th post to be published on TechyGeeksHome. Just a few years ago we started this blog site as a place to store information for ourselves just as a reminder more than anything but as more people started to view our guides we pushed forward and…
Notepad++ has now been upgraded to version 7.2.1. You can download this latest version by clicking the download button below: Download Notepad++ v7.2.1 Notepad++ v7.2.1 bug-fixes: Fix x64 installer regression issue – install in “C:Program Files” instead of “C:Program Files (x86)” Fix expanding environment variables regression in backup path. Make installer Unicode again. We will shortly…
If you would like to distribute Mozilla Firefox using Group Policy, WDS or SCCM, then you will probably appreciate having the MSI installer to do this. Luckily there is a site that provides the MSI installers for Mozilla Firefox called FrontMotion. There is an archive of available MSI installers but the latest one available is…
Mimecast have now released version 7.0.1762.17740 of their Outlook Client. To push this out using SCCM or Group Policy, we recommend using the MSI command below: msiexec.exe /i “MSOInstall.msi” /passive /norestart What this will do is to firstly run the installer, then the /passive will show a basic user interface without user interaction, but will…