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INTRODUCTION When attempting to logon to a computer you get an error after inputting the username and password along the lines of User profile service failed the logon request or You have been logged on with a temporary user account This can be due to either of the following issues: issue with the registry entry for the user account issue …
User profile service failed the logon Read MoreWhen trying to look at or save Outlook attachments, you may get an error pop up stating that you do not have permissions to save, this is due to the temporary folder that Outlook uses to store attachments when opening them is full. Guide To fix this issue, you have two options. You could empty the Outlook temporary folder which …
Outlook Permissions error when opening attachments Read MoreINTRODUCTION 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 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 MoreDownload To download, simply scroll down towards the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as detailed below:
WSUS Powershell Cleanup Tool 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 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 MoreE-commerce is leading the retail disruption. However, it still has a long way to go to consistently contribute to customer delight. TimeTrade’s ‘State of Retail 2016’ report, informs that 72% of customer surveyed still prefer to shop from traditional brick-and-mortar stores as much as they had done in 2015, despite access to e-commerce portals. What’s more, 18% propose to visit …
Drones And Robotics The Next Wave of Disruption in Retail IT Read MoreIf you are using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) then you may want to enable agent proxy on all your agents. If you want to do this then you can use the power of Powershell to carry this out. Just open up a Powershell command box and use the following command: get-SCOMagent | where {$_.ProxyingEnabled -match “False”} | Enable-SCOMAgentProxy If …
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