If you are a server administrator, you will have noticed that the RSAT for Windows 10 does not include the DHCP Console with it. The reason why Microsoft have removed this is unknown to us but we are here to put it right! We have now created a program that you can install on your machine … Read more
In the last part of our KMS and evaluation product key series, we are going to show you how to extend the life of your Windows evaluation for up to one whole year! First of all, your initial evaluation period will allow you 30 days of use of Windows. You can then “re-arm” this up … Read more
If you are installing or upgrading to Windows 10, you may have come across this annoying useless error “Something went wrong” or “Something Happened…”. Helpful Microsoft, thanks for the information. But what does it mean? Well, to be honest, it could mean anything depending on what you are doing on your machine, but we recently found … Read more
So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method … Read more
You may have come across an issue with Windows 10 where when you click the Start button or try and access some programs on the taskbar, nothing happens. This is a known issue with Windows 10 and seems to have been caused by a Windows Update although unproven at this time. There are a large … Read more
Some users have reported to us having issues in activating Windows 10. Well there are many ways of activating Windows 10 apart from the usual way through the Windows System dialog page. First of all, you can use an elevated command prompt and type in the following commands: Set the Product Key: slmgr /ipk “YOUR … Read more
If you want to insert into your Word document, the total number of pages contained within it, then you can follow this simple guide to do this. In your Word document, click your cursor where you want the total number of page to be visible. Click the “Insert” tab on your Word ribbon: You then … Read more
You may have seen our previous post about changing a user mailbox into a shared mailbox in Exchange – but what if you want to do it the other way around and change a shared mailbox into a user mailbox? Well, see below…. There is a simple PowerShell command that you can run within Exchange … Read more
The Remote Computer Description Updater is a free TechyGeeksHome tool that allows you to update the computer description field on remote Windows machines without needing to log into them individually. Ideal for bulk-updating asset descriptions across your estate. Requirements Windows 10, Windows 11 or Windows Server Network access to target machines Administrator rights How to … Read more
If you need to create a shared mailbox in Exchange Server 2007, then you should first gather the following information about the mailbox: Mailbox Name Organisational Unit that the mailbox will sit in Mailbox Server/Database User Principal Name Once you have this information, you should start up Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the following … Read more
If you would like to run your own troubleshooting on Windows 10, then you can do this by going through the Control Panel and selecting the Troubleshooting option. To get into the Control Panel, simply right click on the Start Menu button at the bottom left and select Control Panel. When you open the Control Panel, … Read more
This is a guide on how to capture Microsoft Office updates from a machine and then use these captured updates to either streamline a fully updated installation of Microsoft Office, or it can be used with Configuration Manager to ensure that you are pushing out the software fully patched. The reason we started using this … Read more