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Some more information on the ransomware cyber attack…. Microsoft have now released patches for some legacy systems including Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. You can view the blog post and the download links for the patches by viewing the below from Microsoft:
Following on from the ransomware attacks of the last few days, you should have by now patched all your servers and clients using the Windows Update that relates to your operating system (see list and download links at the end of this post). If you want more security around this then you should also disable … Read more
If you are a regular user of Visual Studio and you also use the Visual Studio Installer to create EXE and MSI installers for your programs then you sometimes may need to copy files to the ProgramData hidden folder. Within Visual Studio Installer this option is not easily available to you like the User’s Desktop … Read more
So you have updated to the latest Windows 10 Creators Edition (1703) and you are using Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft have decided that you need an Edge icon on your tabs to try and encourage you to start using it – annoying yes? Well there is a very simple way of turning it back off … Read more
If you are using Windows 10 then you will know that Microsoft‘s new web browser, Edge, is set as the default browser for the operating system. But if you want to change it then it should be pretty simple right? well it turns out, not quite… It seems that there is a bug when trying … Read more
If you are using a Shoretel IP telephony system and you access the Director from a client machine, then you may come across a problem when accessing Auto-Attendants and Workgroups with audio prompts. the problem usually is that it will stick on Retrieving Prompt and then never go any further than that until it times out: … Read more
If you are using Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) on an older operating system, you may have noticed that you are not receiving all the latest definition updates. This seems to be a particular problem with businesses having to continue using older versions of Windows Server as from 2003 and below then definitions will not automatically … Read more
If you are using System Center Orchestrator (SCORCH) Runbooks then you may have run into issues where the database is increasing in size due to the large amount of log files being created. This typically occurs when monitoring event logs on servers amongst some other runbook options in SCORCH. If you want to check how … Read more
You may have noticed that Microsoft have recently been migrating email accounts over to their new Exchange based platform and this has meant that some people using email programs like Outlook have had to change their settings to connect to their email accounts. How to get your Outlook.com SMTP, POP and IMAP Settings Just login … Read more
You can use large capacity USB flash drives for almost any data usage these days, these include creating bootable USB sticks for Windows operating systems. But if you try and use a much larger capacity drive (64GB+) then you may have an issue with it working. This is because to boot from a USB stick … Read more
Google Adsense is a great way of earning some cash by placing a few adverts on your WordPress blog. However, if you create an advert in your Google Adsense console and just copy and paste it straight into your WordPress site, you are loading a separate script each time for each advert. So, would it … Read more
If you are having speed issues with your WordPress website then you may find that this is because of the the heartbeat control that is within the WordPress software. Running speed checks on your website like PingDom may reveal that your admin-ajax.php is taking ages to load. So, what do you do about it? It really … Read more