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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 worry because there is a …
How to fix the Windows 10 Search Bar Bug Read MoreIntroduction 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 to access your data, they …
How to Add a Network Drive in Windows Read MoreWith 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 will include this new Microsoft …
New Microsoft Edge MSI Pack Read MoreIntroduction 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 is to clear your computers …
Disk Space Cleanup on Windows Computers [2020 Updated] Read MoreI’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 to deploy Microsoft Updates to …
SCCM Query for Microsoft Server 2019 Read MoreDo 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, please feel free to leave …
Create Live Tile to Display Network Data Usage in Windows 10 Read MoreWe recently encountered a problem with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console where some old alerts could not be removed or cleared. Despite confirming that the alerts were no longer relevant, every attempt to clear them resulted in a red X generic Microsoft error, causing the console to crash. What Caused the Issue? The issue was traced back to …
Resolving SCOM Console Alert Clearing Issues Read MoreMicrosoft 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 this update to all our …
Microsoft Update causing Print Spooler Problems – CVE-2019-1367 Read MoreIf 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. This means that the installation …
Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files Read MoreWe 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 exercise due to years of …
Exchange Shell – All Permissions on all Mailboxes Read MoreFollowing 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 keys you should ever require …
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