ADRestore is an Active Directory tool to allow you to restore objects that may have been deleted from your system. Download 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…
Following on from our popular posts in relation to previous Windows 10 language pack downloads (here and here), we thought we would bring things right up to date for Windows 1909 and also show the process to follow to install and configure a language pack in Windows 1903 and above. We are going to show…
Introduction When Windows 10 was first released, Microsoft offered it for free to Windows 7 and 8 OEM customers. This was a limited time offer which did finish a while ago. However, what you may not know is that Microsoft actually still offer Windows 10 to OEM customers for free. Conditions To qualify for the…
Sometimes an emoji can say it so much better than words…the facepalm, the eye roll or the pooh emoji, all say exactly what you want to without having to say it or name any names! You are probably used to creating emojis using your phones or tablets, but what if you use Microsoft Outlook and…
Another set of Microsoft Updates comes around and yet another set of problems arise! Windows 10 Search Bar Bug This time it’s the turn of the Windows 10 search bar to stop working. It seems that this particular bug hits when you click the Start button and type a search – nothing appears! Well, don’t…
Introduction Although this is a fairly simple process for more experienced computers users, we have been asked this question a few times over the last few weeks. This seems to be due to more and more people getting network storage devices for Christmas and, instead of using the rubbish software you get with these devices…
With the release of the new Microsoft Edge internet browser, we have now added the 64-bit and 32-bit MSI installers to our MSI Downloader SourceForge site. You can download it directly from Sourceforge at the moment as we have a new release of our MSI Downloader program coming out in the next few weeks which…
Introduction Following on from our guide back in 2016 on how to save disk space when using an SSD drive, we now have two other ways of helping you to space disk space. These are fairly old methods but probably not very well known to those outside of the IT world. Branchcache The first method…
I’ve not done a post about SCCM queries for a while now so in addition to a load I did some time ago, I thought I’d bring things up to date with a few new queries starting with Microsoft Server 2019. I’ve been using this one for creating a Windows Server 2019 collection in SCCM…
Do you want to add a great live tile to your Start Menu in Windows 10 to show you your data usage from the past 30 days? Well there is a very quick and simple way to do this and this guide is for all ranges of technical knowledge, but if you do get stuck,…
How to deploy a Microsoft Store appx using Microsoft System Center Configurtion Manager.
We recently ran into a problem with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console where some old alerts would not allow us to remove or clear them. We checked that there was not a problem that the alerts were stating so we knew that that could genuinely be removed. Every time we tried to clear…
Microsoft released an emergency update last week under CVE-2019-1367 which claimed to fix an Internet Explorer exploit. If you are now reading this post, I’m assuming that you have already noticed that having installed these set of updates, you now have print spooler problems?! CVE-2019-1367 v1.0 As most businesses probably have, we urgently rushed out…
If you are running a Windows Server environment and you are becoming increasing low on system drive space, then you may want to consider removing the built in payload files for Windows Features. Windows Server comes with the payload files readily available if you want to add any additional Features or Roles to your server….
We carried out a project recently which was to migrate around 150 mailboxes to the Office 365 (Exchange Online) platform. Part of scope of works that was required was to provide the team leaders within the business a list of all the mailboxes and what permissions they had on them. This was mostly a housekeeping…
Following on from our popular posts for evaluation product keys for Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016, this post brings us fully up to date with the evaluation keys for Server 2019. This forms part of our evaluation and KMS product key series where we have shared with you all the product…
How to fix the Windows 10 Desktop Wallpaper Disappearing Problem
If you have MDT integrated in your Configuration Manager 2012 environment, then you will notice that when you use a console on your CM server everything works fine. However, if you have a console installed on a client machine, then you may see this error when trying to view or edit a MDT task sequence…
In most business environments, you will find that Microsoft Teams is used a lot. Especially as Microsoft seem to be starting the push from Skype to Teams. But, this means that if you are looking at a large deployment, you want to try and make the process as quick and easy as possible. For those…
We have now uploaded the Microsoft Teams MSI Installer. This will allow you to easily and quickly deploy Microsoft Teams through systems like System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Group Policy, WDS and Windows Updates using System Center Update Publisher (SCUP). Download You can grab the download by hitting the Download button further below on this…
There are many reasons as to why you would need to identify an Active Directory Organisational Unit’s Distinguished Name. Most techies out there will use an AD distinguished name when writing or using PowerShell scripts. However, quickly finding what the Distinguished name of a particular OU is not immediately clear. You can click on the…
The Windows 1903 upgrade has now been released however, yet again, RSAT has not been included in the upgrade. So it comes as a bit of a shock when you update your Windows version to the latest and then do not have Group Policy, DNS and Active Directory Users and Computers available. For some reason,…
If you are looking to update your Windows 10 to the latest version of 1903, you would normally just head into Settings > Update and Security and then check for Windows Updates. You should then be presented with any Windows Updates that your machine requires and allow them to install. Once complete, reboot your machine…
Get the MSI installer for Apple iTunes by following our simple guide.
