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Exchange 2007 – How to create a shared mailbox

If you need to create a shared mailbox in Exchange Server 2007, then you should first gather the following information about the mailbox: Mailbox Name Organisational Unit that the mailbox will sit in Mailbox Server/Database User Principal Name Once you have this information, you should start up Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the following command: New-Mailbox -Name:”Shared Mailbox” -OrganizationalUnit:”DOMAINOU” …

Gaming / General Tech

The Modern Gamer

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The gaming world continues to expand, and whilst the chance to play against friends is very appealing there are also a wide range of games available to enjoy on your own. The beauty of the technology in the modern world means that we can play games in so many formats, you can play casino games from your smartphone, football games …

Guide / Microsoft

Windows 10 – Troubleshooting

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If you would like to run your own troubleshooting on Windows 10, then you can do this by going through the Control Panel and selecting the Troubleshooting option. To get into the Control Panel, simply right click on the Start Menu button at the bottom left and select Control Panel. When you open the Control Panel, click on the Troubleshooting option …

News / MSI / Skype

Skype 7.22 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions

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Skype version 7.22 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …

A user interface for streaming services showcasing tiles from various providers including YouTube, Netflix, Sky TV on Xbox One, and others, each labeled with corresponding logos and arranged in a grid.

Gaming

Sky TV on Xbox One Console Released

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There is finally an app for the Xbox One Console to allow you to watch your Sky TV subscription through the console. This has been a long time in coming but if you now go into your Store on your Xbox One console and then go into Apps, you should see “TV from Sky”. Click and install this app, login to …

Guide / System Center

How to Capture Microsoft Office Updates

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This is a guide on how to capture Microsoft Office updates from a machine and then use these captured updates to either streamline a fully updated installation of Microsoft Office, or it can be used with Configuration Manager to ensure that you are pushing out the software fully patched. The reason we started using this method was to ensure that …

News / Giveaways

PubHTML5 Flipbook Software: 3 Months Platinum Plan Giveaway

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PubHTML5 Software Co., Ltd. is a software company specialized in providing online publishing solutions for editors and publishers all over the world. The company now offers the 3 Month Platinum Plan of its flipbook software as giveaway to everyone before Mar 31, 2016. PubHTML5 flipbook software has powerful digital publishing features that can help you create interactive digital flipbook with …

Apple / News

iOS version 9.3 Released

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Apple have now released version 9.3 of their iOS so its time to start updating your iPads, iPhones and iPods. Included in this new release is something called “Night Shift” which controls the blue light levels emitted from your screen at night. There are huge amount of new features on this new release and we just upgrading to test them all …

Microsoft / Guide

How get Windows Photo Viewer working in Windows 10

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If you want to go back to the past (and some people do!) and you want Windows Photo Viewer back in Windows 10, then there is a little tweak you can do to make it work. There is a simple registry edit that you need to make and that will make your images open in Windows Photo Viewer by default. …

News

Recent Site Issues

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You may have noticed over the last 24 hours that we have been having some resource issues with our hosting for this site. This is due to the large amount of traffic we have been receiving lately but we have now upgraded our hosting servers and everything should hopefully now be back to normal. Remember – hosting is not free! …

Guide / System Center

SCCM – 52 Operational Collections

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There is an excellent Powershell download available giving you 52 operational collections within SCCM. You should go over to the link below and take a look: 52 SCCM Powershell Collections Full list of collections created using the Powershell script are: All Clients All Clients Active All Client Inactive All Clients R2 CU0 All Clients R2 CU1 All Clients R2 CU2 …

Guide

How to get into the Acer Recovery Console

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If you are trying to run a factory restore on an Acer computer, then there is a set of keyboards presses you need to enter during boot up to get into the recovery console. All you need to do is to press the LEFT ALT key and F10 during the post BIOS phase and the machine should boot into the …