How-To Guides for Windows, Server & IT Tutorials

The user profile service failed the logon error fix

1 May 20266 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!) … Read more

Create Installation Media for Windows 7

1 May 20264 May 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn … Read more

Orchestrator Not Showing Newly Created Folders or Runbooks

1 May 202623 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This is a re-post of a guide that we posted about two years ago, but this happened to us again thisweek so thought it would be good to share again… We ran into an issue where our newly created folders and runbooks in Orchestrator were not showing up in our SCCM (MDT) Execute Runbooks task … Read more

How to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM

1 May 20267 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This is going to be quite a lengthy guide but one that we think you might find very useful. Introduction We have previously shown you how to report Autodesk serial numbers using SCCM and this has led to a number of questions being sent to us on how to deploy AutoCAD using SCCM and in … Read more

How to add a YouTube Subscribe button to your website or blog

1 May 20261 April 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to add a YouTube Subscribe button directly on to your website or blog so that visitors can just click it and immediately subscribe to your videos without even having to go to your YouTube Channel, then this guide is for you. Instructions So how do you do it? all you need is … Read more

How do I type a Powershell “Pipe”?

1 May 202623 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This 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 … Read more

How to reset your HP LaserJet P2015 to Factory Default Settings

1 May 202619 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

Reset HP LaserJet P2015 printer to factory settings.

Exchange Server – Why are the emails in plain text format?

1 May 202618 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We 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 … Read more

Microsoft Exchange – Export Mailbox Sizes to Excel

1 May 202617 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If 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 … Read more

How to Extract a zip file using 7-Zip

1 May 202615 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We get asked a lot of highly technical questions which we do try our best to answer and post guides on this website, however, sometimes we also get asked basic questions like “How do I open a zip file?”.

To most of us this is second nature, but there are a lot of people out there that do not know how to do things like this, so we made a quick video to show you the basics on how to do this.

You can obviously use the built in Windows extracting but we personally hate it and always install and use 7-Zip so this video is based on you having 7-Zip installed.

Video Demo

You can download 7-Zip by Googling it.

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SQL Reporting Services Error – Maximum request length exceeded

1 May 202611 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

When running or trying to create a large report in SSRS, you may come across an error stating the below: Error 2: There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. Maximum request length exceeded. It took us a while to figure this one out but it is actually very simple. After … Read more

How to boot into Windows 8 Safe Mode

1 May 202627 February 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We 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 … Read more