How to Embed a Video in WordPress
A simple step by step guide on how to embed videos in WordPress Gutenberg visual editor.
Practical IT Guides for Windows, SCCM & PowerShell Admins
TechyGeeksHome has been helping IT professionals and sysadmins since 2010. Find 1,500+ real-world guides covering Windows 10 & 11, Windows Server, SCCM/ConfigMgr, PowerShell scripting, Active Directory, networking, and virtualisation — all written from hands-on production experience by a UK IT pro with 26 years in the field.
Enable NTVDM
We were recently asked to enable NTVDM on a number of Windows devices in our corporate environment for our firmware engineers. Due to the amount of devices that we needed to get this enabled on, we wanted to be able to push it out through either Group Policy or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). So … Read more
WordPress Plugin – LinkGather
I am delighted to announce the release of our first-ever WordPress Plugin – LinkGather. A few weeks ago I needed a full list of all of our posts’ JetPack wp.me short links. Having around 2500 posts published meant that it wasn’t an easy task to just copy and paste the links into a text file. … Read more
How to Export WordPress Shortlinks
Would you like to export all of your published WordPress posts’ wp.me shortlink URLs to a big list quickly and easily? If so, then this post is for you as we show you how, in a few simple steps, you can get all the wp.me links you want. WordPress Plugin We have created a WordPress plugin … Read more
How to migrate a SCSM database
We recently had a situation where we needed to upgrade our SQL server that had the System Center Service Manager (SCSM) databases on it. This meant that we would need to migrate the databases from the old server to the new server. We thought that this would be a fairly straight forward task and it … Read more
System Center Operations Manager Invalid Management Group Removal
We recently carried out some work for a client who had a completely ruined installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Who had done what to it, we may never know, but it was clear that the only fix was to start again. This was not such a bad thing as they did want to … Read more
Office 365 URL and IP Addresses
If you are using Office 365 in your corporate environment, then it’s a pretty safe bet that you are also using some sort of web security. We have come across a quite a few IT professionals that have migrated to Office 365 but have then run into problems with various connections to the web based … Read more
AMP Reports created with Google Analytics
Are you using AMP but now you want to create AMP reports in Google Analytics? Then this guide is for you! Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) seems to be all the rage at the moment. This is because with the advancement of technology with smart phones and tablets, more people are using the internet on smaller … Read more
IOTransfer Review – A Powerful iOS Management Tool and Online GIF Maker
File manager transfer software are specialized tools that allow users to view and open files stored on the device, copy them to another device, send them via e-mail and more. iOS is a vital mobile operating system but has some limitations. For example, iOS users cannot manage files as efficiently as users of Windows or … Read more
Migrate a System Center Orchestrator database to a different SQL Server
We were running through our list of servers and looking at what each one was doing in terms of Domain Controllers, Exchange servers, SQL servers, System Center servers etc when we noticed that we had quite a few servers that were using pretty small databases but had a large amount of host resource allocated to … Read more
Move Pagination Directly Under Post in WordPress
When using the WordPress pagination feature, with some themes it can end up being out of the way and your visitors might not see it. This can cause issues where your visitors will get frustrated and leave your website. This also then starts to push up your bounce rate. I had this problem so I … Read more
SQL Query to find members of an Active Directory Security Group
We recently helped out with a data migration which included creating a completely new set of Active Directory security groups. They wanted all the members to have the same level of access but wanted all the new security groups to have a matching standard. So we needed to create all the new security groups and … Read more