Online services have grown a lot during the past two decades and perhaps the biggest growth out of all was in the online gaming sector. Once the casinos moved to the online environment, things rapidly started to grow exponentially and what’s happening today could not be predicted by any analysis. A very lucrative business Online […]
Year: 2017
WSUS – Cleanup using Powershell with email notification output
lntroduction If you are using WSUS in your environment, you may want to run a scheduled task to cleanup old updates and compress some of the larger updates to free up space on your server. A good way of doing this is to run a Powershell script which will take care of all your cleanup […]
Get SID from Username and Username from SID using WMI Queries
INTRODUCTION This post will show you how to get the username of a SID. This will help you when you need to make amendments within a computers registry for HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU). GUIDE Open a command prompt on the computer that a change is required for and run the followinng command: wmic useraccount get name, sid, […]
Enable Uninstall in Safe Mode
This post will show you how to enable the ability to uninstall programs when in safe mode. This can help if you have installed a driver or some other piece of software that may have blue screened your computer. Guide Launch your computer into safe mode and then run the following from a command prompt: […]
Bulk Remove SCOM Management Packs
If you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you may have Management Packs in your system that you may longer want – especially if, like me, you go and add as many as you can in blissful ignorance expecting to get lots of tasty data. Then realising that this is a terrible idea […]
More Than Just a Search Engine: Google’s Best, Failed, Unknown Products
When you’re #1 in the online market, way ahead of everything else, it’s obvious that there’s a lot of work behind you – many failed projects, trial and errors, and not-so-famous products that represent the foundation of the success everyone else sees. Google’s story is no different. We all know about the search engine, about […]
Java 8 Update 144 MSI Installers
We have now uploaded to our Java archive Java 8 Update 144 with the MSI installers and Offline Installers The versions that have been added are: You can go and download these new installers by click the Download button below: Download Java 8 Update 144 Java 8 Update 144 Instructions Full instructions on how to use […]
Adobe Shockwave Player 12.2.9.199 – MSI Download
Adobe have released version 12.2.9.199 of their Shockwave Player software 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. Adobe do provide a direct download link for its […]
Mozilla Firefox v54.0 MSI Installer Download
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 […]
Adobe Reader DC version 17.009.20058 Released
Adobe have now made available their Adobe Reader DC version 17.009.20058. You can download the MSP and EXE files for the update directly from Adobes FTP site by clicking the link below: DOWNLOAD Download Adobe Reader DC v17.009.20058 HOW TO USE THE MSP FILE You need to download the original MSI installer which is also available […]
Google Chrome version 59.0.3071.115 Released and MSI Installer
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 59.0.3071.115. 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 […]
VLC Player v2.2.6 Released
VLC Player 2.2.6 has been released and is probably the best media player on the internet. VLC Player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. This is basically your all in one media centre and […]
