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You may have recently noticed that if you are a Google Chrome user – your plugins have started to not work in certain situations. This can be for flash, silverlight or shockwave amongst others. This is the start of the end for NPAPI. Well, there is a reason for this…. On the Chromium blog there has been an announcement that Google …
Re-enable NPAPI in Google Chrome Read MoreYou may have noticed with the batch of Windows updates on 14th April that your Lync Online client has now been automatically updated to Skype for Business 2013. So what are the changes? below is the official Microsoft line… Changes are coming to Lync Online in Office 365. Lync is joining the Skype family, so in the coming months, Lync …
Lync Online Client updated to Skype for Business 2013 Read MoreFollowing on from our popular guide on how to fix your machine if you get corrupt Windows Updates and your machine is stuck on “Installing Updates..” shut down screen like the one below, we have been asked by a number of people to create a quick demo video – so we have. Below you will find a quick 3 minute …
Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Video Demo Read MoreYou can now download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for both Windows 10 and Windows 8.1. This allows you to manage your servers for options like DHCP, Active Directory and DNS amongst many others. To download the RSAT installation files, simply click the version you require below: DOWNLOAD RSAT for Windows 8.1 RSAT for Windows 10 COMMENTS If you …
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 & Windows 8.1 Read MoreIf you need to download any Microsoft Office, Project or Visio 2013 media as a backup or if you have lost your original DVD, then there is a website where you can download all of these in a variety of languages. Downloads To do this you should click the link below to take you to the full matrix of downloads …
Microsoft Office, Project & Visio 2013 ISO Downloads Read MoreFollowing on from our previous post about Windows Server 2008 R2 evaluation keys, we thought we should bring things up to date with Windows Server 2012 R2. If you are trying to evaluate Windows Server 2012 R2 then you will need to activate the software once you have completed the installation. We have seen a number of people struggling with …
Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation Product Keys Read MoreFollowing on from our post about being able to download a Firefox MSI installer, we have now also found a Firefox ADM template that can be used to ensure that you can set customisation settings using Group Policy in your organisation. This means that you can ensure that your proxy settings are applied, your intranet home page is set and …
Firefox ADM Templates for Group Policy Read MoreThis may seem like a very simple thing to most techies out there, but we have had this question asked to us a number of times with people using the incorrect keys to type a Powershell pipe. So, how do you type a Powershell “Pipe”? A Powershell pipe can be seen below in the example code: It is the line …
How do I type a Powershell “Pipe”? Read MoreWe recently noticed an issue with our lab Exchange server where it was sending emails by default in plain text format rather than in HTML format. We could not figure out why the server was doing this, but after some research we found out that it had to do with the settings for the “Remote Domains”. To check this setting, …
Exchange Server – Why are the emails in plain text format? Read MoreIf you want to export an Exchange mailbox database list to Excel so that you can see how large users’ mailboxes are, you can do this using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). All you need to do is to login to your Exchange server with your mailbox database on, open up the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and then run the …
Microsoft Exchange – Export Mailbox Sizes to Excel Read MoreWe have had a number of people asking us about how to boot Windows 8 into Safe Mode, mostly so that they can carry out the Windows Update fix as detailed in our guide here: Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down You should take a look at oiur guide which gives you all the various ways there are of rebooting …
How to boot into Windows 8 Safe Mode Read MoreMicrosoft have done it again!! They have released another Windows Update which has obviously not been fully tested and this one has caused Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client to stop working. So if you are trying to figure out why your VPN will not connect all of a sudden – this is probably why. The update that is causing this issue …
KB3023607 – Microsoft Update Breaks Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client Read More
