Browse step-by-step how-to guides covering Windows, Windows Server, networking, and virtualization. These tutorials are designed for IT professionals, system administrators, and home lab users looking for practical solutions and clear instructions.
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to … Read more
If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want … Read more
Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you … Read more
If you are using a Shoretel telephony system then you probably are aware of the pain of getting voice recording prompts into the correct format for use with the system. You may also struggle with getting people to record the messages you require unless you go out to a professional recording service. However, text to … Read more
If you are using SCCM and you want to delete a device from your database (for example if you are using OSD and only deploying to Unknown Devices) then you would normally have to go into the SCCM Console, Devices, search for the device and then right click and delete the device which would remove … Read more
We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way … Read more
If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded … Read more
In Exchange you can have a number of mailbox features either enabled or disabled for each mailbox. These features include Outlook Web Access (OWA), POP3, IMAP and ActiveSync. If you want to enable or disable all or any of these features on bulk or by Organisational Unit (OU) then you can use the following Exchange … Read more
In previous versions of Windows it was always pretty simple to add a program into the start up. You just dragged a shortcut (or the program itself) into the start up folder from the Start button menu and job done. In Windows 10, it is not quite as simple as that. To add an item … Read more
If you are using Exchange and you want to see the list of folder sizes a mailbox has, you can open up Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the command below: Where: mailboxalias = The alias of the mailbox you want to get the folder sizes of Name = Name of the folder @{N=”FolderSize (MB)”;E={$_.FolderSize.ToMB()}} … Read more
If you are having issues on Windows 10 when opening File Explorer then you may find that when you go into Quick Access that it crashes. This is a problem with the links that are within your Quick Access so you need to clear these and this is how to carry that process out. Open … Read more
If you need to enable your Windows Telnet Client (like for use with our new Ultimate Settings Panel Tricks Panel) then it is a very simple process: For Windows 7: Click Start > Control Panel. Click Programs and Features. Click Turn Windows features on or off. In the Windows Features dialog box, check the Telnet … Read more