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Windows 10 comes with a large amount of built in apps, most of which are useful, but some are not and you may want to uninstall them, however you might find that when you right click on an app you want to uninstall, the uninstall option is not there: However with any 3rd party apps […]
We recently had a request for help regarding Windows 10 computers not being able to download apps from the Windows Store when sat behind a web security platform. The problem was that end users could load up the Windows Store and browse for what they wanted to install but when clicking on the install button, […]
So it’s the start of a new month and Xbox Live Gold members can again download some free games! It’s a really good month of free games this September with the awesome Forza 5 included for the Xbox One console. The full set of available games in September are as below: Xbox One: Forza Motorsport […]
INTRODUCTION If you are using Microsoft Outlook client to retrieve your Microsoft based email, then you may have started to receive an error about the certificate not being valid. The pop up alert that you receive may look something like this: The reason for this seems to be that Microsoft are now using outlook.com for […]
INTRODUCTION When attempting to logon to a computer you get an error after inputting the username and password along the lines of User profile service failed the logon request or You have been logged on with a temporary user account This can be due to either of the following issues: issue with the registry entry […]
When trying to look at or save Outlook attachments, you may get an error pop up stating that you do not have permissions to save, this is due to the temporary folder that Outlook uses to store attachments when opening them is full. Guide To fix this issue, you have two options. You could empty […]
INTRODUCTION If you want to allow a user to ‘Send-as’ a Universal Distribution Group, you cannot do this by right clicking the Distribution Group in Exchange and managing send-as permissions as you would with a shared mailbox or user mailbox. GUIDE However, the following will allow you to carry this task using Active Directory instead […]
lntroduction If you are using WSUS in your environment, you may want to run a scheduled task to cleanup old updates and compress some of the larger updates to free up space on your server. A good way of doing this is to run a Powershell script which will take care of all your cleanup […]
INTRODUCTION This post will show you how to get the username of a SID. This will help you when you need to make amendments within a computers registry for HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU). GUIDE Open a command prompt on the computer that a change is required for and run the followinng command: wmic useraccount get name, sid, […]
This post will show you how to enable the ability to uninstall programs when in safe mode. This can help if you have installed a driver or some other piece of software that may have blue screened your computer. Guide Launch your computer into safe mode and then run the following from a command prompt: […]
Introduction If you are trying to use Windows Hello to use your face to login to a domain connected device (like a Surface Pro 4 for example) then you may find that the option to set it up is greyed out and not available to you. This seems to be some sort of Microsoft bug and […]
We recently dealt with an issue for a customer where a few of their server event logs where full of Group Policy error. The error in question was: Event Type: Error Event Source: Group Policy Local Users and Groups Event Category: (2) Event ID: 8194 Date: 30/06/2017 Time: 10:27:12 AM User: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM Computer: WINDC1 […]