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FIX – Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine – KB3085509

You may have started to receive an error message when you are opening Office documents from a “network” location like SharePoint, OneDrive or an actual network drive today – this is due to yet another Microsoft update causing problems! The error you will probably be receiving is this one: “Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine” After some quick …

DustyPad v1.2 Released – Multi-tab NotePad Utility

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DustyPad is a multi-tab notepad utility which comes as a standalone executable file for easy and quick use and is completely free to use and distribute. With DustyPad you can add as many new pads as you like within a tabbed environment and then save your pads for later use. An easy to use interface is also provided to browse …

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SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed”

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We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem was that the RamDiskTFTPBlockSize we …

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Sky Go Android APK Download

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If you are using an Android device, especially the Amazon Fire TV stick, then you may want to be able to install the Sky Go app on the device to access your Sky TV services. You can do this either by installing the app from the Google Store using the link below: Sky Go Android App from Google Store But, …

4 Ways Your Users Will Destroy Your Company Without Even Trying

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MD5 Hash Online Encryption and Decryption Tool

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We have recently been working on MD5 hash codes both in encrypting and decrypting the hashes. So, we have now created a microsite with our work in progress so that our visitors can start to use it and we will work on making it better over time. But before we go any further, we know that there is actually no …

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Office 2016 – Outlook and Exchange Compatibility

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With the recent release of Microsoft Office 2016 and the subsequent release to volume licence users on VLSC, a lot of people will be rushing into upgrading to the latest version. However, be careful with compatibility with your corporate Exchange servers… Outlook 2016 will work with the following Exchange Server versions: Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2010 …

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High Disk Usage on Windows 10 & Windows 8.1

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You may notice that if you are running either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 that your task manager is showing very high disk usage like the screenshot below: The reason for this is that Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 automatically manages your machines virtual memory and paging file size by default. This is usually not the best configuration for …

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Skype 7.12 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

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Skype version 7.12 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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WMI Query for Internet Explorer Installations with Version

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If you need a WMI query for Group Policy or for Configuration Manager for machines that have Internet Explorer installed and even a version filter, then you can use the following: SELECT * FROM CIM_Datafile WHERE Name = “C:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe” AND Version LIKE “11.%” You can then change the “11.%” part to the version number that you would like …

Guide / Communication

Shoretel Communicator Download Client and MSI Installer

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To get the Shoretel Communicator download for the client software you can easily retrieve it from your Shoretel HQ server and you then have the ability to use the installer in various different installation methods. EXE Format You should go to the following URL in an internet browser on a machine that is connected to the same network as your …

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Skype 7.10 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

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Skype version 7.10 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 does provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

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Fix slow internet on wireless connections

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Are you having problems with slow internet at home? are you on fibre but still only getting a few megabytes download speeds when running a broadband speed test? a lot of people think that this is due to the actual internet connection (and to be fair – in some cases it probably is!), but there is something else that you …