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.
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server Technical Preview.
If you would like to disable Microsoft OneDrive in your corporate environment then you can do so using Group Policy. Simply open up your Group Policy editor and create a new policy (or edit an existing policy) and browse to the following location: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components In this location you … Read more
If you are having problems in getting Dropbox to either install or synchronise on your corporate network, then you will need to add some IP ranges and URL’s to your web security proxy whitelists.
If you are using a shared mailbox in Outlook 2013 then you may find that when you send items from the mailbox or if you delete items from the mailbox that they go into your own mailbox folders. To fix this and make the sent and deleted items go into the shared mailboxes folders, you … Read more
We have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you … Read more
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed … Read more
We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem … Read more
You may notice that if you are running either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 that your task manager is showing very high disk usage like the screenshot below: The reason for this is that Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 automatically manages your machines virtual memory and paging file size by default. This is usually … Read more
To get the Shoretel Communicator download for the client software you can easily retrieve it from your Shoretel HQ server and you then have the ability to use the installer in various different installation methods. EXE Format You should go to the following URL in an internet browser on a machine that is connected to … Read more
Are you having problems with slow internet at home? are you on fibre but still only getting a few megabytes download speeds when running a broadband speed test? a lot of people think that this is due to the actual internet connection (and to be fair – in some cases it probably is!), but there … Read more
If you would like to download Windows 10 in full so that you can have it on DVD or a USB memory stick, then you can go to the website below and download the media creator tool from Microsoft to allow you to download and create the installation media for any version of Windows 10. … Read more
If you are using the new windows 10 operating system, then you will probably be familiar with the new feature which allows you to have multiple virtual desktops. This is excellent if you are skiving from work where you can have your personal stuff on one and then quickly flick to another desktop with all … Read more