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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 to your domain and you …
Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature Read MoreUse our guide to submit your website to the largest search engines on the internet.
Submit Your Website to Search Engines But Which Ones? Read MoreWe have recently been signing up for a large number of different social media sites. This is mostly so that we can try and keep up to date with all available platforms, that way we can add more helpful guides to our blog. But we thought that you may like to join us on some of these new social media …
Social Media Platforms for TechyGeeksHome Read MoreYou may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? You are not the only one! Yes, Microsoft have done it yet again, released a dirty update that this time hits your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and Microsoft …
Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818 Read MoreSerial number to activate VMWare 6.7.
VMWare ESX 6.7 Serial Number Activation Read MoreYou may have seen our post last week about the final closure of the popular StumbleUpon site. Well, there is a replacement site called Mix. You can even sign up using your StumbleUpon account details to import all of your stuff into Mix. So, we have gone ahead and signed up for Mix and are just getting to grips with …
From StumbleUpon to Mix Read MoreFollowing 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 and enter this command: Get-mailbox …
Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information Read MoreWe 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 a painstaking process but we …
WordPress – Find text within all posts Read MoreMicrosoft have done it again and released another update “fix” which has broken Windows 7 machines. This seems to be the same sort of issue as before where the wifi and VPN connections are affected. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! You can forgive the odd bad update, but this has …
New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842 Read MoreWe are delighted to announce the launch of our new online store, now available to all of our visitors. This is something that we have been working on for a long time. Over the last few weeks we have been carrying out some beta testing, but today, it is now available to everyone. How can I get to the store? …
New Online Store Launched – Get Saving With Us! Read MoreHard drives and partitions are not strange things in our life and work. You will meet some problems with partitions or hard disks when you buy a new computer, when you want to install more than one operating system and even when you meet some boot problem. Basically, some problems can be fixed with the Windows built-in disk management tool. …
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Review Read MoreA short while ago, it was announced that StumbleUpon would be shutting down. Well, the day has come and StumbleUpon is officially no more – well, sort of.
StumbleUpon has officially shut down Read More
