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By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 13 July 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft
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Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818

You may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? You are not the only one! Yes, Microsoft have done it yet again, released a dirty update that this time hits your Microsoft Windows Server

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 6 July 201824 August 2024
Posted in Guide, Microsoft

Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information

Following on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script which will get all the information available from all Shared Mailboxes including the sizes of each mailbox. Guide Open up the Exchange Management Script tool

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 3 July 201815 February 2025
Posted in News, Microsoft

New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842

Microsoft have done it again and released another update “fix” which has broken Windows 7 machines. This seems to be the same sort of issue as before where the wifi and VPN connections are affected. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! You can forgive the odd

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 27 June 201824 August 2024
Posted in Guide, Microsoft

Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV

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

A screenshot of a computer with CMTrace bundled.

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 22 June 201816 February 2025
Posted in Guide, System Center

CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install

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

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By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 20 June 201824 August 2024
Posted in Microsoft, Guide

Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)

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.

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 18 June 201815 February 2025
Posted in Microsoft

KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines

Microsoft 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

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 15 June 20189 September 2025
Posted in Evergreen, Guide, System Center
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SCCM OSD Stuck on “Just a moment…”

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

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By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 13 June 20189 September 2025
Posted in Evergreen, Guide, Microsoft

Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads

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

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 11 June 20189 September 2025
Posted in Evergreen, Guide, System Center

Service Manager Database Using High RAM

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

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Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818

Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information

New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842

Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV

CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install

Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)

KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines

SCCM OSD Stuck on “Just a moment…”

Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads

Service Manager Database Using High RAM