We recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!) … Read more
If you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn … Read more
This is a re-post of a guide that we posted about two years ago, but this happened to us again thisweek so thought it would be good to share again… We ran into an issue where our newly created folders and runbooks in Orchestrator were not showing up in our SCCM (MDT) Execute Runbooks task … Read more
You can now download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for both Windows 10 and Windows 8.1. This allows you to manage your servers for options like DHCP, Active Directory and DNS amongst many others. To download the RSAT installation files, simply click the version you require below: DOWNLOAD RSAT for Windows 8.1 RSAT for … Read more
If you need to download any Microsoft Office, Project or Visio 2013 media as a backup or if you have lost your original DVD, then there is a website where you can download all of these in a variety of languages. Downloads To do this you should click the link below to take you to … Read more
We recently noticed an issue with our lab Exchange server where it was sending emails by default in plain text format rather than in HTML format. We could not figure out why the server was doing this, but after some research we found out that it had to do with the settings for the “Remote … Read more
If you want to export an Exchange mailbox database list to Excel so that you can see how large users’ mailboxes are, you can do this using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). All you need to do is to login to your Exchange server with your mailbox database on, open up the Exchange Management Shell … Read more
If you want to install Windows Movie Maker silently, maybe for distribution using a system like Configuration Manager or Group Policy, then you can follow the guide below to do this. First of all, you will need to download the offline installer from the download location below: Download Then you can create to distribution package … Read more
We have recently dealt with a problem that a customer had reported to us about their Excel spreadsheet columns suddenly appearing as numbers instead of the expected letters. We doubted this very much as none of us had heard of it before, but no, there is was, columns as numbers just like this: This was … Read more
If you are using shared mailboxes in Outlook, then you may find that when someone is sending an email from this mailbox, the sent email is going into the users own Sent Items folder rather than the Sent Items folder within the shared mailbox itself. This is because there is a delegation registry key that … Read more
If you have purchased Windows 8.1 and you have lost or damaged your DVD media or would simply like a backup, you can now download the ISO from Microsoft by inputting your product key. All you need to do is go to the website below: Windows Upgrade Media Download Then click on the “Install Windows … Read more
If you have a requirement to add a secondary domain controller to your existing domain, then the video guide below should show you exactly the steps you need to take to carry this out. Comments If you have any questions about setting up your secondary domain controller, then please feel free to leave a comment … Read more