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Enabling inactive Mimecast Outlook Plugin add-in that keeps being unloaded in Outlook

Enabling inactive Mimecast Outlook Plugin add-in that keeps being unloaded in Outlook

To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookResiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in […]

Outlook Mail Server Settings

Outlook Mail Server Settings

This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for […]

WSUS – Windows 10 Feature Upgrades Fail Fix

WSUS – Windows 10 Feature Upgrades Fail Fix

If you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the […]

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell

To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and […]

Exchange – Export Contacts to PST using Powershell

Exchange – Export Contacts to PST using Powershell

If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want […]

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) v1.2 for Windows 10 Released – Full Download and Installation Guide

Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you […]

SCCM – Dell Client Bios & Driver Autodownload

SCCM – Dell Client Bios & Driver Autodownload

We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way […]

SCCM – How to clear CCMCache content older than x days using Compliance Settings

SCCM – How to clear CCMCache content older than x days using Compliance Settings

If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded […]

A journey through the Windows of Time

A journey through the Windows of Time

Call it evolutionary, revolutionary, contemporary, or just captivating. The world’s dominant OS has been the staple technology running millions of devices owned by individuals and businesses across the world over the last 3 decades. Millennial’s would remember growing up playing Minesweeper as their first PC game and probably cannot imagine a world without Windows. Let’s […]

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