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If you have a Dell computer and need to reinstall the operating system back to factory settings, but you have lost your original restore media, then Dell kindly offer an online solution to this problem. Unlike a lot of other companies like HP and Acer, Dell allow you to enter your machine details and download the appropriate restore media for …
Dell Windows Recovery Read MoreIf you have a Shoretel telephony system in your corporate environment and you want to know which extensions have which licenses, then you can do this by running a simple query across your Shoretel MySQL database. Login to your HQ server and open MySQL and login to your main Shoretel database. Then run these following queries on it: Show all …
How to Show Shoretel User Licenses Allocations Read MoreIf you need to export your Exchange mailbox address details to CSV then you can run the following EMS PowerShell command to export the name, primary SMTP email address and the mailbox database where the mailbox is allocated. Get-Recipient -Resultsize unlimited | select name, primarysmtpaddress, Database | export-csv C:tempaddresses.csv You can change the file location to wherever you want to …
Export Exchange Mailbox Address Details to CSV Read MoreWe have recently come across a problem with a VMWare vCenter Appliance where it was stuck in a repetitive boot loop and fsck failed error message. After some investigation we found that all that was needed to fix this issue was to run the following command: It will then check for errors and fix them, once it has completed you …
vCenter Appliance fsck failed Read MoreIf you are trying to deploy an operating system using SCCM and you are getting an error 80220005 at the “Apply Windows Settings” step, then there can be two reasons for this. One is that the computer name that you are trying to give to the machine is over 16 characters long and will cause a failure. The second is …
SCCM OSD Fails with Error 80220005 at the “Apply Windows Settings” step Read MoreIf you are setting up some distribution points for Configuration Manager (SCCM) then you will need to ensure that you have all the correct server features installed and also the correct firewall ports opened. To do this, we have created a quick PowerShell script to carry this all out for us. To download this script for yourselves, please click the …
SCCM Distribution Point Pre-Requisite Powershell Script Read MoreIf you have somewho managed to delete any of your Windows 10 apps, including the Windows 10 Store app, then there is a quick and easy way to restore all the apps. Simply open PowerShell as an administrator and run the following code: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)AppXManifest.xml”} This will then start the re-installation process: Once this …
How to restore Windows 10 Apps including Store Read MoreIf you are deploying Microsoft Office 2013 then you will have used the Microsoft Office Customization Tool (OCT) to tell your installer what parts of Office to actually install. So what if you have setup your installer to carry out the standard Word and Excel installs but you also want Skype for Business (or Lync as its known in Office …
Microsoft Office 2013 – Skype and OneDrive for Business not installing when using OCT Read MoreSimple guide on how to carry out a Twitter Mass Unfollow. Run a quick code and watch as you unfollow everyone you currently follow on Twitter.
Twitter Mass Unfollow Read MoreIf you are using Windows 10 in your corporate environment then you may want to have the available language packs to either install manually or through deployment systems like SCCM, Group Policy or WSUS. When we were looking for the language pack files, we found it very difficult to find them on the internet so we now think that we …
Windows 10 Language Pack Downloads Read MorePaint.Net is an excellent free to use program that for a lot of people can rival the more expensive drawing programs like Photoshop and Corel Draw. The current release is now at version 4.0.9 so we thought we would create a quick guide on how to add this excellent program to your SCCM Application Catalog. PREREQUISITES First of all you …
Paint.Net v4.0.9 Released & MSI Installers Read MoreMimecast have now released version 6.3.1608.16170 of their Outlook Client. To push this out using SCCM or Group Policy, we recommend using the MSI command below: msiexec.exe /i “MSOInstall.msi” /passive /norestart What this will do is to firstly run the installer, then the /passive will show a basic user interface without user interaction, but will stop and show the error …
Mimecast Outlook Client 6.3.1608.16170 Released Read More
