Microsoft Excel – Columns Displaying Numbers instead of Letters

We have recently dealt with a problem that a customer had reported to us about their Excel spreadsheet columns suddenly appearing as numbers instead of the expected letters. We doubted this very much as none of us had heard of it before, but no, there is was, columns as numbers just like this: This was a bit baffling to us, …

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XYZ Domain Names

With the launch of the .xyz domains, we thought we would get in on the act and purchase some of these ourselves for techygeekshome. We have purchased the following domains all of which point to this sites home page for now although we might do something more interesting with them in time. sccm.xyz technicalhelp.xyz technologygeeks.xyz techy.xyz techygeeks.xyz techygeekshome.xyz tecky.xyz So …

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How to Transfer Infrastructure Master FSMO Role to a Different Server

If you want to transfer your Infrastructure Master FSMO Role to a different server then you can follow the steps below to carry this out. You should first logon to your Domain Controller using an Enterprise Administrator account and then launch an elevated command prompt. You should then enter the following commands within the command prompt: ntdsutil roles connections connect …

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Uninstall Windows and Office Updates using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

Following on from our recent posts about dodgy Microsoft updates, we thought we should post about how to uninstall Windows and Office Updates using WSUS. A lot of the issues people fast with dodgy Microsoft updates are when they are automatically or accidentally released through WSUS to your end users machines meaning that on their next “Check for Updates” cycle, …

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