We recently started to update all of our old posts that contained our old domain name of techygeekshome.co.uk. To do this, we needed to find all of the posts that actually have this in both the post content itself and also any links or code within the source of the post. This could have been … Read more
We picked up a problem with our blog today where when selecting a month from our Archive drop down (on the right side column), no matter which month you selected, it was redirecting back to the home page of our site. It turned out that the problem was actually with the Yoast SEO Plugin configuration. … Read more
Sometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix stuff, but IT is becoming more and more like an admin role all the time. It doesn’t mean you stop fixing stuff, it just means … Read more
CMTrace is an awesome tool and I have been copying it onto an end users machine using a batch file during the OSD process for years. But finally, Microsoft have added it into the Configuration Manager Client installation. So, once you have an up to date client installed on a users machine, you can browse … Read more
Do you need to upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)? Well we recently had to carry this out as a test in a lab environment. None of us knew how to carry this out from the top of our heads, so like all good IT guys, we used the power of Google. … Read more
We came across a problem with our SCCM OSD recently where it was getting through approximately half the build process and then seemingly getting stuck on “Just a moment…” before timing out and not completing the build. This was a bit of a head scratcher as there did not seem to be any crash or … Read more
If you are an IT administrator then the chances are that you have come across issues with trying to download files directly from a website to your server. You would have received this security alert when trying to download: Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded. Although this is a … Read more
We recently had a problem with our Service Manager database server using massively high RAM usage. It was using up all the RAM we gave it no matter how much extra we allocated to it. So we needed to try and figure out why it was doing this, like all good IT people, we started … Read more
You may have come across a problem when trying to connect remotely to a server using remote desktop connection. If you are receiving a CredSSP error like the one below: Then the chances are you have this update: CVE-2018-0886 – which seems to be from March 2018 but we have only just started to see … Read more
You may have seen in our previous post that we have been working on getting our WordPress blog sped up and we had done this by carrying out the steps in this awesome guide by Kinsta. Well, one of the last things that we had to carry out that was still being picked up as … Read more
Over the last few weeks we have been experiencing a lot of speed issues on our blog so it was time for us to run some WordPress speed optimisation. This has been due to a number of factors but we thought that it was time to sit down and go over a complete overhaul of … Read more
