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Microsoft Updates – More Faulty Updates – KB4103712

After our recent posts about Microsoft releasing faulty updates and breaking user computers, we have now found yet another Microsoft Update which has been causing a problem with machines rebooting themselves quite randomly and completely losing network connections. Again we have done a load of testing and Googling and found the update to be KB4103712. Problem Update This is a direct …

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New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103713 & KB4130978

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So it looks like Microsoft have done it yet again! Yes more updates have been causing us problems and we have had to go through a number of user machines uninstalling two more updates to fix broken computers. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! This seems to be happening on a …

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WordPress Speed Up – Remove Query Strings From Static Resources

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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 an issue with Google PageSpeed …

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WordPress Speed Optimisation

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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 the blog to get it …

Screenshot of the "server manager" interface in Windows, showing dashboard with options like "local server," "file and storage services," "disable server manager," and performance metrics.

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Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup

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I don’t know about you, but Server Manager loading up every time I login to a Windows Server 2016 machine drives me nuts! This is especially annoying when using my lab as most of the hardware is just old bits of kit that is not being used in production any longer. In older versions of Windows Server, there was a …

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New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103718 & KB4103727

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Yet again it looks as though Microsoft have pushed out their updates without testing them fully first! More problems have been reported after this round of Tuesdays updates which is now becoming a very regular occurrence. Again, after much Googling and removing updates one by one, we finally came to the conclusion that two more Microsoft updates were also causing …

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Powershell – Export Active Directory User Last logged on information to CSV

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If you want to export all your Active Directory users last logged on information, you can carry this out using Powershell and then exporting to CSV format. Guide First of all, you will need to import the ActiveDirectory module if you have not already done so. To do this, just open up a Powershell command box and run the following …

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How to create a MDT Package within SCCM

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As a SCCM administrator you are probably fully aware that you have a lot of power available to you when carrying out deployments using task sequences. But you can add even more options to SCCM task sequences by adding Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) integration. This gives you a load more options during a task sequence including a large number of …

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SCCM – Full list of web security proxy exceptions

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When using Configuration Manager, you may find that some things may not work fully if you are also behind a web security proxy service. We came across this problem recently where the Asset Intelligence Point was being blocked from contacting the internet due to web security. This caused this error in our Configuration Manager Console: So we started to investigate …

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KB4099950 & KB4093113 – Yet More Faulty Windows Updates Released by Microsoft

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A few days ago we posted here about two Microsoft updates that had been causing us a number of problems with our older Windows 7 machines. We thought that we had resolved all of our issues in relation to these updates, but we have this week seen machines dropping off the network and ramdomly rebooting themselves when connecting to wireless networks. …

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Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV

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Powershell is an awesome tool and can help IT professionals in gathering information in a split second whereas otherwise it could take hours manually. We were recently asked to carry out a number of tasks for information gathering for annual housekeeping. The tasks were varied but were made up of information from Active Directory and Exchange. This meant that we …

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Exchange Shell – Get all shared mailboxes with primary SMTP

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We recently received a request to provide a project manager with a full list of all shared mailboxes with their primary SMTP addresses that were in Microsoft Exchange. To do this is a pretty straight forward task using Exchange Management Shell (EMS). Just go ahead and open your EMS and run the following command: This will go through your Exchange …