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If you are using Exchange in your organisation and have multiple administrators, then you may need to keep an eye on mailbox limits. In most organisations the mailbox limits are set by default on the database, however you can change the limits per mailbox. So, if you want to see which mailboxes do not have … Read more
If you have used Visual Studio to create an installer, then you will find that their are two output files required for the installation – setup.exe and setup.msi. You can zip these together into a package, but what if you want a single EXE file installer? Well you can use 7-Zip to create a packaged … Read more
If you are trying to install SharePoint Foundation 2013, you will need to run the pre-requisite installation process. However, you may come across an error stating that the tool cannot configure the Application Server Role and Web Server (IIS) Role.
If you would like to build an installer to install a custom font on a machine, then you can use Visual Studio to do this.
If you are using System Center Configuration Manager for Operating System Deployment (OSD) then you may come across an error like this even after a successful PXE boot:
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: In this location you will find an “OneDrive” folder: Open up this … 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