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INTRODUCTION If you want to allow a user to ‘Send-as’ a Universal Distribution Group, you cannot do this by right clicking the Distribution Group in Exchange and managing send-as permissions as you would with a shared mailbox or user mailbox. GUIDE However, the following will allow you to carry this task using Active Directory instead of from within Exchange: Open …
Send-As Exchange Universal Distribution Group Read MoreSkype version 7.39 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …
Skype v7.39 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions Read Morelntroduction If you are using WSUS in your environment, you may want to run a scheduled task to cleanup old updates and compress some of the larger updates to free up space on your server. A good way of doing this is to run a Powershell script which will take care of all your cleanup requirements and as we are …
WSUS – Cleanup using Powershell with email notification output Read MoreINTRODUCTION This post will show you how to get the username of a SID. This will help you when you need to make amendments within a computers registry for HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU). GUIDE Open a command prompt on the computer that a change is required for and run the followinng command: wmic useraccount get name, sid, status This will now look …
Get SID from Username and Username from SID using WMI Queries Read MoreThis post will show you how to enable the ability to uninstall programs when in safe mode. This can help if you have installed a driver or some other piece of software that may have blue screened your computer. Guide Launch your computer into safe mode and then run the following from a command prompt: REG ADD “HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSafeBootMinimalMSIServer” /VE /T …
Enable Uninstall in Safe Mode Read MoreIf you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you may have Management Packs in your system that you may longer want – especially if, like me, you go and add as many as you can in blissful ignorance expecting to get lots of tasty data. Then realising that this is a terrible idea and you now have loads …
Bulk Remove SCOM Management Packs Read MoreIntroduction If you are trying to use Windows Hello to use your face to login to a domain connected device (like a Surface Pro 4 for example) then you may find that the option to set it up is greyed out and not available to you. This seems to be some sort of Microsoft bug and we have never found any …
Enable Windows Hello Feature Read MoreWe recently dealt with an issue for a customer where a few of their server event logs where full of Group Policy error. The error in question was: Event Type: Error Event Source: Group Policy Local Users and Groups Event Category: (2) Event ID: 8194 Date: 30/06/2017 Time: 10:27:12 AM User: NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM Computer: WINDC1 Description: The client-side extension could …
Group Policy Error 0x8007000d in Server Event Log Read MoreIf you have a server which has been used for EMC RecoverPoint then you may find that you require a password to get into the BIOS. The standard default for this is as below: Note that it is case sensitive.
EMC RecoverPoint BIOS Password Read MoreIf you run into an issue with opening documents or spreadsheets from SharePoint, then this guide will show you how to fix the problem. You will probably get an error message pop up when you try to open a SharePoint file which may be something like “Sorry, we couldn’t open ‘spreadsheet.xlsx“. This is actually a problem with the Office cache …
Office Cache Fix – “Sorry, we couldn’t open ‘spreadsheet.xlsx” Read MoreSkype version 7.38 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and the installer is packaged as …
Skype v7.38 Released – MSI Download Link & Silent Install Instructions Read MoreIf you are fed up of having to use an USB cable to connect your Amazon Kindle to your computer, then you can take advantage of your own home wireless to create a connection between your computer and Kindle. Connect your Kindle Fire to your home wireless connection. Also ensure that your computer is connected to the home network either …
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