Making IT Happen
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 […]
![Disk Space Cleanup on Windows Computers [2020 Updated]](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Branchcache-Status-1.png "Disk Space Cleanup on Windows Computers [2020 Updated] 7")
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, […]
We 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 […]
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 […]