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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. If you are having this …
WordPress Archives Drop Down Redirecting to Homepage Read MoreSometimes 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 you have to carry out …
Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV Read MoreAre you receiving a number of spam phone callers recently? We have noticed lately that we are receiving more and more calls where they call you for one ring and then hang up. Most of the time the calls are coming from Chad, Algeria or Somali. However, there are a number of UK cold callers too. Now I don’t know …
Spam Phone Callers List Read MoreCMTrace 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 to the following location: %windir%ccmcmtrace.exe …
CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install Read MoreDo 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. Luckily we found an excellent …
Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256) Read MoreMicrosoft are really outdoing themselves at the moment as it seems that they have released another pair of updates for Windows 7 machines that reboots the computer when connecting to a wireless or VPN connection. We have had around 40 machines with these two updates that have seen this problem. We have had to remove these from circlation on our …
KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines Read MoreWe 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 reason for it to just …
SCCM OSD Stuck on “Just a moment…” Read MoreIf 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 default setting and in most …
Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads Read MoreWe 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 Googling! All the usual tricks …
Service Manager Database Using High RAM Read MoreIf you need to export all Active Directory user information to CSV, then you can use a simple Powershell script to carry this out. First Import the Active Directory module: Then get the user information from Active Directory. For the example below we are just going to grab all information, hence the * wildcard, but you can trim this down …
Powershell – Export all Active Directory User Information to CSV Read MoreSerial number to activate VMWare 6.5.
VMWare ESX 6.5 Serial Number Activation Read MoreYou 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 this issue. The difference is …
CredSSP Error Breaks Remote Desktop Connections Read More
