Google Drive Proxy Whitelist
Full list of all required web security proxy whitelist URL’s to enable Google Drive to work within a corporate environment.
Practical IT Guides for Windows, SCCM & PowerShell Admins
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Outlook Shared Mailbox – Sent and Deleted Items into correct folders
If you are using a shared mailbox in Outlook 2013 then you may find that when you send items from the mailbox or if you delete items from the mailbox that they go into your own mailbox folders. To fix this and make the sent and deleted items go into the shared mailboxes folders, you … Read more
Windows and Office Activation Proxy Whitelist Websites
We recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.
Windows Live Meeting MSI Installer Download
If you have users that are still using Windows Live Meeting, you may want the MSI installer to be able to distribute it through Group Policy, WDS or Configuration Manager. So, we have extracted the MSI from the main installer and made it available on our Filestore microsite. DOWNLOAD Visit our Filestore microsite by clicking … Read more
Manual Windows 10 Upgrade Guide
We have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you … Read more
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack MSI Download
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed … Read more
DustyPad v1.2 Released – Multi-tab NotePad Utility
DustyPad is a multi-tab notepad utility which comes as a standalone executable file for easy and quick use and is completely free to use and distribute. With DustyPad you can add as many new pads as you like within a tabbed environment and then save your pads for later use. An easy to use interface … Read more
SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed”
We today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem … Read more
MD5 Hash Online Encryption and Decryption Tool
We have recently been working on MD5 hash codes both in encrypting and decrypting the hashes. So, we have now created a microsite with our work in progress so that our visitors can start to use it and we will work on making it better over time. But before we go any further, we know … Read more
Office 2016 – Outlook and Exchange Compatibility
With the recent release of Microsoft Office 2016 and the subsequent release to volume licence users on VLSC, a lot of people will be rushing into upgrading to the latest version. However, be careful with compatibility with your corporate Exchange servers… Outlook 2016 will work with the following Exchange Server versions: Exchange Server 2016 Exchange … Read more
High Disk Usage on Windows 10 & Windows 8.1
You may notice that if you are running either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 that your task manager is showing very high disk usage like the screenshot below: The reason for this is that Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 automatically manages your machines virtual memory and paging file size by default. This is usually … Read more
Shoretel Account Viewer v1.0 Released
We are pleased to announce a new utility custom built by us called Shoretel Account Viewer. Shoretel Account Viewer is a small installable utility that allows you to connect to your Shoretel systems MySQL database and return information on any users account within that environment. This is an essential tool for any Shoretel administrator as … Read more