Windows Service Stuck in Stopping Mode
A simple step by step guide on how to fix a Windows service stuck in stopping mode.
Andrew Armstrong
Get folders and sizes for all mailboxes using Exchange Shell
We recently had a request to provide to our Project Management team, a full list of all Exchange mailboxes with all folders within each mailbox and also the total sizes of each folder for each mailbox. This came as a bit of a shock to us and we still have no idea why they wanted … Read more
Creating Current User Registry Keys in a SCCM Package
We were asked recently about how to use a SCCM package to amend current user registry keys (HCU). To be honest, we didn’t really know, HCU registry changes have always been a bit of a nightmare to manage. However, we started to have a look around and found an excellent guide on how to carry … Read more
Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature
If you want to test your SMTP server is working correctly, you can use the telnet feature within Windows. The following guide will walk you through the steps to carry this out. Telnet to test your SMTP server Just open up an elevated command prompt then enter these commands in turn: This should then connect … Read more
Submit Your Website to Search Engines But Which Ones?
Use our guide to submit your website to the largest search engines on the internet.
Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information
Following on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script which will get all the information available from all Shared Mailboxes including the sizes of each mailbox. Guide Open up the Exchange Management Script tool … Read more
WordPress – Find text within all posts
We recently started to update all of our old posts that contained our old domain name of techygeekshome.co.uk. To do this, we needed to find all of the posts that actually have this in both the post content itself and also any links or code within the source of the post. This could have been … Read more
WordPress Archives Drop Down Redirecting to Homepage
We picked up a problem with our blog today where when selecting a month from our Archive drop down (on the right side column), no matter which month you selected, it was redirecting back to the home page of our site. It turned out that the problem was actually with the Yoast SEO Plugin configuration. … Read more
Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV
Sometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix stuff, but IT is becoming more and more like an admin role all the time. It doesn’t mean you stop fixing stuff, it just means … Read more
CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install
CMTrace is an awesome tool and I have been copying it onto an end users machine using a batch file during the OSD process for years. But finally, Microsoft have added it into the Configuration Manager Client installation. So, once you have an up to date client installed on a users machine, you can browse … Read more
Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)
Do you need to upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)? Well we recently had to carry this out as a test in a lab environment. None of us knew how to carry this out from the top of our heads, so like all good IT guys, we used the power of Google. … Read more