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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 used any time two systems …
Custom Generic Logging for WFC WebServices Read MoreWe 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 get you started: <pre style=”border: …
WordPress – Code snippet display Read MoreThe 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
X-Plane 11 Demo Released Read MoreIf 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 to export to COMMENTS If …
Exchange – Export Contacts to PST using Powershell Read MoreSo 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 Dogs Dec. 1 – Dec. …
Xbox Live Gold Free Games for December Read MoreWe 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 there were not many solutions …
SCCM SQL Query – Google Earth Installs Read MoreOur 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
Black Friday Deal – NETTA Healthier Oil Free Airfryer – £39.99 Read MoreSo 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
Black Friday Deal – 750GB SSD – £105.99 Read MoreSo, 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 good offers and will post …
Black Friday Deals Read MoreWe 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 started to post many more …
Our 1000th Post! Read MoreMimecast 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 stop and show the error …
Mimecast Outlook Client 7.0.1762.17740 Released Read MoreIf you are using a print server you may find that you come across an error when trying to connect a end user to a printer stating: Windows Cannot Connect to the Printer This is caused when the print driver is updated or a new driver is created on the print server and stops the end user from adding the …
Windows cannot connect to the printer Read More
