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Enable Windows Remote Desktop Protocol and Set Firewall Rules using PowerShell

Enable Windows Remote Desktop Protocol and Set Firewall Rules using PowerShell

If you are using Windows Server 2012 or newer, or if you are just using Windows Server Core, then this Powershell script will help you out by enabling Remote Desktop and setting the correct firewall inbound rules. Simply open up an elevated Powershell command box, or use Powershell ISE and use the two scripts below, […]

Video Demo – Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Fix

Video Demo – Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Fix

We also have written guides for the different versions of Windows available here: Windows 10 Windows 7 Windows 7 Alternative Method Feedback We would love to hear your feedback on whether any of these methods helped you at all. If they have, please feel free to go ahead and leave us a message below using […]

Power BI – Refresh data every working hour

Power BI – Refresh data every working hour

If you are using Power BI and a personal gateway, you may want to ensure that your report data is updated regularly during working hours. Power BI is an excellent tool that can be utilised in many ways including the power bi jira combination as an effective solution for specialists dealing with numerous administrative tasks. To learn […]

Windows 10 1709 – RSAT Missing DNS Fix

Windows 10 1709 – RSAT Missing DNS Fix

If you have recently upgraded to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and you use Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT), then you may have noticed that the DNS console is missing from the list of available consoles. This seems to be a fault on Microsoft‘s side and I’m sure that they will release an update soon, […]

Active Directory Password Expiring Email Notification

Active Directory Password Expiring Email Notification

Does your 1st line help desk get fed up of having to reset end users passwords “because they didn’t know their password was expiring?” Well, let us show you a way that you can utilise System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH), PowerShell and Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) to email all end users a few days before […]

Microsoft Windows 10 Edition Evaluation Product Keys

Microsoft Windows 10 Edition Evaluation Product Keys

After our recent post about providing our visitors with a number of evaluation and KMS Microsoft product keys, please see below the latest set in this series. These are the full range of Microsoft Evaluation keys for all editions of Windows 10. Windows 10 Edition Product Key Windows 10 Professional W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX Windows 10 Professional N […]

Windows 10 Version 1709 Language Pack Downloads

Windows 10 Version 1709 Language Pack Downloads

With the release of Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), you may have a need for the updated operating system language packs. So, below is a full list of downloadable language pack files. 2024 Update Included in this latest up-to-date Windows Language Pack download are the 32-bit and 64-bit language packs for 38 […]

Group Policy Corruption – Fix the processing of Group Policy failed error

Group Policy Corruption – Fix the processing of Group Policy failed error

If you are getting Group Policies that are not applying to a users machine, you may well come across this error: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event is resolved. This can […]

Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows. You capture a task sequence, and the capture computer does not have Internet access. When the task sequence is running and the computer is checking for updates (pre-application installation), the installation freezes for 2 […]

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Cannot access network shares fix

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Cannot access network shares fix

Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just run into this issue where after installing the 1709 update, we could not access our (slightly old) WD MyBook Live network attached storage device. When […]

How to download Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ISO offline installers

How to download Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ISO offline installers

With Microsoft‘s release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), you may want to have the ability to choose when to update your personal or corporate machines and maybe without access to the internet. So how can you do that? Microsoft seem these days to want to update all our machines using Windows Update. […]

OneDrive – Turn on Files on Demand

OneDrive – Turn on Files on Demand

Microsoft have now brought back the OneDrive Files on Demand feature with the latest release and here is how you get it. First of all, you need to make sure you have the latest version of OneDrive, you can upgrade to Windows 1709 or you can download the installer by clicking the link below: OneDrive […]

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