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KB4093118 & KB4093108 – Another Faulty Windows Update Released by Microsoft

Microsoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers. We have particularly hit with issues on Windows 7 machines. Although there are reported issues with Server 2008 R2 as well. So, having spent a few hours searching for todays culprit, we found that the update causing the issue is this one: KB4093118 …

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Import Active Directory Powershell Module

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If you want to use Active Directory modules for Powershell then you can will need to run the commands to import the required module and then install the RSAT tools. To do this, open up an elevated Powershell command box and run the following command to import the Server Manager module: Import-Module ServerManager Once that has completed, then run the …

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SCCM – Report on PST File Locations

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Users love to keep their email for as long as they possibly can, but when IT Admins start telling them to archive their email because their mailbox is too big, sometimes things get worse and PST files end up being created all over your corporate Filestores. Even worse than that, users will create their PST files and keep them locally …

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Microsoft Edge Released for iOS and Android

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Microsoft have now released Edge for iOS and Android. Personally, I don’t like Edge and use Chrome 99% of the time, but if you are a Microsoft fan and you want their latest browser on your mobile devices then you can grab Edge using the links below: Downloads Download Edge for Android Download Edge for iOS So what does Edge …

System Center Configuration Manager SCCM

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SCCM – User Experience During Application Installation

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If you want your end user experience to show them the progress of an installation from your Software Center, then you will need to ensure that you have your command lines and user experience tab setup correctly. We have seen many people follow the “install in the background and don’t tell anyone the progress” method time and time again, however, …

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SCCM – 1802 Upgrade Released & How to get it now!

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So Microsoft have today released version 1802 of Current Branch for Configuration Manager. This is great and there are some features in this upgrade that we are looking forward to trying out. But, on the slow ring, it could be a few days or weeks until it drops into your Configuration Manager Console. That’s bad. So, what can you do …

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SCCM – Active Directory Security Group Query for User Collection

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If you are looking at setting up a SCCM user collection based on membership of an Active Directory Security Group, then you can use this WQL query for the collection. WQL Script To set this up, create a new collection and copy and paste this as its query: Variables You can add or remove any of the SMS_R_USER columns from …

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How to take ownership of a Windows File

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If you have a stubborn file that you cannot delete or move, then you will need to take ownership of the file to allow you to carry out any action on it. To do this is a pretty simple process, just follow our step by step guide below to carry this out and enable you to take control back of …

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How to Edit PDFs on Mac For Free

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PDF documents are now part and parcel of virtually everyone handling documents these days. Be it in schools, hospitals, newsrooms, hotels and any other sort of business around, we just can’t run away from using PDF documents. After all, PDF is the format for handling many documents right? Now, you may want to edit your PDF files on your mac …

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Controlling Autodiscovery for Outlook using Group Policy

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We have recently been working on a Microsoft Office 365 email migration from on-premise to cloud based Exchange. One of the challenges that we faced was making the migration process as painless as possible for the end user. However, with thousands of end users having Microsoft Outlook 2010 installed and already configured to work with the existing on-premise server, we …

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Start a stopped service on multiple devices using Powershell

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Following on from our recent guide about restarting a service on multiple devices, we were also asked about starting a stopped service using a similar method. This is pretty simple and can be carried out in almost exactly the same way. Powershell Script So to carry this out, you should create a txt file with the list of device names …

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How to create correct partitions to deploy a Windows image to a UEFI based device

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We have recently come across an issue when trying to deploy a test virtual machine using Hyper-V (Generation 2 – UEFI) that once you have selected your task sequence, you get an error and the task sequence bombs out. This is because we had not setup the correct drive partitions to be able to deploy using Generation 2 technology. To …