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Factory resetting your MacBook Air is useful when troubleshooting persistent issues, preparing to sell or give away your device, or starting fresh with a clean system. This process erases all data and settings, so it’s crucial to back up your important files using Time Machine or iCloud before proceeding. Step 1: Prepare for the Reset … Read more
A YouTube Channel ID is a unique identifier for a YouTube Channel. This ID can be used for social apps or services to show YouTube information or feeds. How to find your YouTube Channel ID You can see your channel’s user and channel IDs in your advanced account settings on a computer or mobile browser. … Read more
These simple SQL queries can be used to pull data from the Configuration Manager database to provide you with a count of all make, model and architecture devices in your business. Instructions To get this information, open a new query within SQL Server Management Studio and copy and paste the query that you wish to … Read more
Power BI is a powerful business analytics service that provides rich interactive visualizations, reports, and dashboards to help organizations gain insights from their data. One of the key features of Power BI is the ability to create reports that automatically refresh on a scheduled basis. In this blog post, we will discuss how to run … Read more
I’ve been creating a lot of collections with our SCCM recently, so I thought I would share the ones we thought were most useful: Show all computers in SCCM: Show all computers with a specific name: Show all computers with a specific operating system: Show all computers with a specific IP address: Show all installed … Read more
Google Chrome is the most popular internet browser in the world and there are many features that you can use with it. Although I thought this was pretty straightforward, someone asked us recently how they could make Chrome full-screen for a presentation they were giving that morning. So we showed her and it turns out … Read more
I’ve had a few Virtual Machines (VMs) which had thick provisioned disks instead of thin, as thick is the default this is quite easy to do. If you have the paid version of vSphere and two or more hosts managed by vCenter you can simply do a storage vMotion and change the destination disk to … Read more
In this article, we will discuss Dell driver downloads, including what they are, why you need them, how to download them, and some tips to make the process smoother. What are Dell driver downloads? Dell driver downloads are software files that allow your computer to communicate with the hardware devices connected to it. Every device … Read more
I recently started playing Grand Theft Auto V again after about 10 years of not playing it and I couldn’t be bothered with the full story mode and having to do the missions, I just want to shoot people and fly planes! However, having had to start from the beginning, I had nothing, no guns, … Read more
I have recently been working on updating BIOS’s for a fleet of various Lenovo models and I started getting all sorts of different return codes from them. They were not standard SCCM codes so I had to lookup what these return codes were. Below is a table to show all the return codes you get … Read more
VMware vSphere HA (High Availability) is a feature that provides automated failover capabilities for virtual machines running on VMware vSphere hosts. When a host failure occurs, HA will detect it and restart the affected virtual machines on another available host in the cluster. If you are experiencing a failover error with VMware vSphere HA, there … Read more
