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Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 & Windows 8.1

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 Windows 10 COMMENTS If you …

Microsoft Office, Project & Visio 2013 ISO Downloads

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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 the full matrix of downloads …

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Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation Product Keys

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Following on from our previous post about Windows Server 2008 R2 evaluation keys, we thought we should bring things up to date with Windows Server 2012 R2. If you are trying to evaluate Windows Server 2012 R2 then you will need to activate the software once you have completed the installation. We have seen a number of people struggling with …

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Exchange Server – Why are the emails in plain text format?

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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 Domains”. To check this setting, …

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Microsoft Exchange – Export Mailbox Sizes to Excel

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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 (EMS) and then run the …

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KB3023607 – Microsoft Update Breaks Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client

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Microsoft have done it again!! They have released another Windows Update which has obviously not been fully tested and this one has caused Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client to stop working. So if you are trying to figure out why your VPN will not connect all of a sudden – this is probably why. The update that is causing this issue …

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KB3001652 – Another Faulty Windows Update Released by Microsoft

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Microsoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers. So, having spent a few hours searching for todays culprit, we found that the update causing the issue is this one: KB3001652 It turns out that its an update for Visual Studio 2010 so it may not affect the huge amount of machines …

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Windows Movie Maker – Silent Unattended Installation

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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 in Configuration Manager and the …

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Windows 10 Microsoft Live Demo

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So the big news of the day is that some more details of Windows 10 features have been released during a live demo by Microsoft. We have been using the Technical Preview of Windows 10 for some time now so its not all that exciting news for us really and Windows 10 is not all that much different from Windows …

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Microsoft Excel – Columns Displaying Numbers instead of Letters

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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 a bit baffling to us, …

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Uninstall Windows and Office Updates using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

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Following on from our recent posts about dodgy Microsoft updates, we thought we should post about how to uninstall Windows and Office Updates using WSUS. A lot of the issues people fast with dodgy Microsoft updates are when they are automatically or accidentally released through WSUS to your end users machines meaning that on their next “Check for Updates” cycle, …

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Windows Update Causing Internet Explorer to Crash – KB3008923

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After Microsoft released a bunch of updates this week that broke Excel, today we ran into issues with their updates breaking Internet Explorer! After some more updates were released through our WSUS server to client machines, users started to experience Internet Explorer crashes on load up making the browser virtually unusable. So, having to then spend more hours searching for …