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User profile service failed the logon
INTRODUCTION When attempting to logon to a computer you get an error after inputting the username and password along the lines of User profile service failed the logon request or You have been logged on with a temporary user account This can be due to either of the following issues: issue with the registry entry for the user account issue …
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Outlook Permissions error when opening attachments
When trying to look at or save Outlook attachments, you may get an error pop up stating that you do not have permissions to save, this is due to the temporary folder that Outlook uses to store attachments when opening them is full. Guide To fix this issue, you have two options. You could empty the Outlook temporary folder which …
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Send-As Exchange Universal Distribution Group
INTRODUCTION If you want to allow a user to ‘Send-as’ a Universal Distribution Group, you cannot do this by right clicking the Distribution Group in Exchange and managing send-as permissions as you would with a shared mailbox or user mailbox. GUIDE However, the following will allow you to carry this task using Active Directory instead of from within Exchange: Open …
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Skype v7.39 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions
Skype version 7.39 has now been released 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. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …
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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 requirements and as we are …
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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, status This will now look …
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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: REG ADD “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimalMSIServer” /VE /T …
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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 and you now have loads …
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Enable Windows Hello Feature
Introduction If you are trying to use Windows Hello to use your face to login to a domain connected device (like a Surface Pro 4 for example) then you may find that the option to set it up is greyed out and not available to you. This seems to be some sort of Microsoft bug and we have never found any …
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We recently dealt with an issue for a customer where a few of their server event logs where full of Group Policy error. The error in question was: Event Type: Error Event Source: Group Policy Local Users and Groups Event Category: (2) Event ID: 8194 Date: 30/06/2017 Time: 10:27:12 AM User: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM Computer: WINDC1 Description: The client-side extension could …
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EMC RecoverPoint BIOS Password
If you have a server which has been used for EMC RecoverPoint then you may find that you require a password to get into the BIOS. The standard default for this is as below: Note that it is case sensitive.
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