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If you are using System Center Service Manager and creating custom management packs then you will want to seal them with a strong name signature. To do this, you will need to first of all generate the key file to allow you to use it when sealing your management pack. You need to use the sn.exe tool which has to …
SCSM – How to generate a strong name signature key file to seal a Management Pack Read MoreWindows Essentials 2012 will be reaching its end of life in January 2017. This means that you will no longer be able to download the software from Microsoft. However, we have downloaded the offline full installer for Windows Essentials 2012 and you can download it from us. Just click the button below to download the offline installer: Windows Essentials 2012 Offline …
Windows Essentials 2012 – End of Life in January 2017 Read MoreSo you have Windows 10 and you want to know what your product key is so that you can keep this as a record. Not everyone will want to do this, but some do so here is a quick and simple way of finding your Windows 10 product key. Right click on the Start Button and then select “Command Prompt”: …
Windows 10 – Find your Product Key Read MoreIf you are a laptop or Surface user then you might be interested in looking through a report on your battery and you can do this by running a very simple command within Windows. All you need to do is to open a Command Prompt by right clicking on your Windows 10 Start button and selecting “Command Prompt”: When the …
Generate a Battery Report in Windows Read MoreWe were recently setting up a test lab with an old version of Exchange 2007 to replicate a customers environment and we had created the required 250 users in Active Directory using some scripts but we also had to then create the mailboxes for these accounts. Not wanting to sit there manually creating all these mailboxes, we used a quick …
Exchange 2007 – Create Multiple Mailboxes using Powershell Read MoreIf you are having problems with updating your Windows 7 machine, then you should download the monthly update rollups now provided by Microsoft. These contain a large amount of updates to a particular date and are released each month. Once you have downloaded the update file and installed it, you should then only have a few minor updates to install …
December 2016 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Read MoreWe were recently talking to a friend about EA Access subscription and he said that it is a nightmare to cancel the subscription once you have activated it. Well we have had a look into it and it seems fairly straight forward to us but thought we would write up a quick post about how to do it anyway. First …
How to cancel EA Access subscription on Xbox One Read MoreSophos has always been an excellent anti-virus package for corporate users but you can now get Sophos for home use completely free of charge. You can create yourself an account with Sophos and then install on up to 10 computers for family and friends and also centrally manage them from a web console. Having been using McAfee Internet Security for …
Sophos Anti-Virus and Web Protection Free for Home Users Read MoreTo enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookResiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in DisabledItems and CrashingAddinList folders: Then …
Enabling inactive Mimecast Outlook Plugin add-in that keeps being unloaded in Outlook Read MoreThis post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for connecting to Outlook and Office …
Outlook Mail Server Settings Read MoreWe have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some time ago and you cannot …
Windows XP Activation Read MoreIf you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the KB3095113 update on your WSUS …
WSUS – Windows 10 Feature Upgrades Fail Fix Read More
