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If you own a Raspberry Pi, you might not want to clutter your workspace with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Fortunately, you can remotely access your Raspberry Pi from a Windows laptop or desktop with a few simple steps, making it easier to manage your device without needing physical peripherals. In this guide, we’ll walk … Read more
If you are using Raspbian Jessie on your Raspberry Pi then you may want to use Node.JS. You can use Node.JS for a number of things one being running a Twitter Bot to automatically retweet, like or favourite tweets based on Twitter search queries. To install Node.JS on your Raspberry Pi, simply follow the steps … Read more
If you are getting this error message when you open SQL Server Configuration Manager in SQL Server: Cannot connect to WMI provider. You do not have permission or the server is unreachable. Note that you can only manage SQL Server 2005 and later servers with SQL Server Configuration Manager. Invalid namespace [0x8004100e] Then there is a … Read more
If you are creating an image for Enterprise deployment then you may not want all the junk apps that come built into Windows 10. We are talking about Candy Crush and Metro etc… So, how do you get rid of them from the WIM file that you have created for your image? Luckily there has … Read more
If you are a server administrator, you will have noticed that the RSAT for Windows 10 does not include the DHCP Console with it. The reason why Microsoft have removed this is unknown to us but we are here to put it right! We have now created a program that you can install on your machine … Read more
If you have young kids then you may give them your iPad or iPhone to play with to watch kids’ TV, which is especially helpful to keep them entertained when travelling. But, your little treasure might be like ours and although he wants to watch the latest show of Alvin and the Chipmunks, also wants … Read more
In the last part of our KMS and evaluation product key series, we are going to show you how to extend the life of your Windows evaluation for up to one whole year! First of all, your initial evaluation period will allow you 30 days of use of Windows. You can then “re-arm” this up … Read more
As you are probably aware, we provide Java client installation packages when they are released so that you can keep your systems up to date. A lot of people recently have been asking about the uninstall of the old Java clients when installing the new ones. Well, below is a full guide on how to … Read more
You should have noticed by now that the default internet browser Microsoft want you to use is their new Edge browser. Well, ok, its fine for home browsing but a lot of companies have legacy programs that still need Internet Explorer 11 to run them. So, how do you get your SCCM Operating System Deployment … Read more
If you are installing or upgrading to Windows 10, you may have come across this annoying useless error “Something went wrong” or “Something Happened…”. Helpful Microsoft, thanks for the information. But what does it mean? Well, to be honest, it could mean anything depending on what you are doing on your machine, but we recently found … Read more
So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method … Read more
If, like us, you have converted from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress, then you will have probably redirected all your posts from your old platform to your new one. Work’s great huh? well yes it does – for normal tablet and computer browsers, but have you tested it with an iPhone browser? You may find … Read more