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Group Policy is an awesome tool for IT Departments to ensure that their end user computers have the correct enforcement settings on them. It also ensures that company policies are met while also helping to keep security measures in place. The wide range of policies available to IT Departments via Group Policy, means that computers on a corporate domain can …
Group Policy Admin Templates Catalog Read MoreWe have over the last week or so had problems with Windows Server 2008 servers where, although they seem to be connecting through the network without any problems, like filestores, the servers could not be remoted onto and when running an ipconfig would return no data. You can see the number of Microsoft Updates that have been problematic for Windows …
KB4457139 – Windows Server 2008 NIC Issues Read MoreA simple step by step guide on how to fix a Windows service stuck in stopping mode.
Windows Service Stuck in Stopping Mode Read MoreWindows 7 seems to have been suffering a lot recently with Microsoft releasing updates on an almost weekly basis that breaks something within the still popular Operating System. You can see the number of Microsoft Updates that have been problematic for Windows 7 users that have been released over the last few months by looking through our articles here. Well …
KB4457144 – Windows 7 Rollup May Cause NIC Issues Read MoreWe recently had a request to provide to our Project Management team, a full list of all Exchange mailboxes with all folders within each mailbox and also the total sizes of each folder for each mailbox. This came as a bit of a shock to us and we still have no idea why they wanted it, but, us techies just …
Get folders and sizes for all mailboxes using Exchange Shell Read MoreIf you want to test your SMTP server is working correctly, you can use the telnet feature within Windows. The following guide will walk you through the steps to carry this out. Telnet to test your SMTP server Just open up an elevated command prompt then enter these commands in turn: This should then connect to your domain and you …
Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature Read MoreYou may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? You are not the only one! Yes, Microsoft have done it yet again, released a dirty update that this time hits your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 machines and Microsoft …
Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818 Read MoreFollowing on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script which will get all the information available from all Shared Mailboxes including the sizes of each mailbox. Guide Open up the Exchange Management Script tool and enter this command: Get-mailbox …
Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information Read MoreMicrosoft have done it again and released another update “fix” which has broken Windows 7 machines. This seems to be the same sort of issue as before where the wifi and VPN connections are affected. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! You can forgive the odd bad update, but this has …
New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842 Read MoreSometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix stuff, but IT is becoming more and more like an admin role all the time. It doesn’t mean you stop fixing stuff, it just means you have to carry out …
Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV Read MoreDo you need to upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)? Well we recently had to carry this out as a test in a lab environment. None of us knew how to carry this out from the top of our heads, so like all good IT guys, we used the power of Google. Luckily we found an excellent …
Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256) Read MoreMicrosoft are really outdoing themselves at the moment as it seems that they have released another pair of updates for Windows 7 machines that reboots the computer when connecting to a wireless or VPN connection. We have had around 40 machines with these two updates that have seen this problem. We have had to remove these from circlation on our …
KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines Read More
