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Microsoft are really outdoing themselves at the moment as it seems that they have released another pair of updates for Windows 7 machines that reboots the computer when connecting to a wireless or VPN connection. We have had around 40 machines with these two updates that have seen this problem. We have had to remove these from circlation on our …
KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines Read MoreIf you are an IT administrator then the chances are that you have come across issues with trying to download files directly from a website to your server. You would have received this security alert when trying to download: Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded. Although this is a default setting and in most …
Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads Read MoreYou may have come across a problem when trying to connect remotely to a server using remote desktop connection. If you are receiving a CredSSP error like the one below: Then the chances are you have this update: CVE-2018-0886 – which seems to be from March 2018 but we have only just started to see this issue. The difference is …
CredSSP Error Breaks Remote Desktop Connections Read MoreAfter our recent posts about Microsoft releasing faulty updates and breaking user computers, we have now found yet another Microsoft Update which has been causing a problem with machines rebooting themselves quite randomly and completely losing network connections. Again we have done a load of testing and Googling and found the update to be KB4103712. Problem Update This is a direct …
Microsoft Updates – More Faulty Updates – KB4103712 Read MoreSo it looks like Microsoft have done it yet again! Yes more updates have been causing us problems and we have had to go through a number of user machines uninstalling two more updates to fix broken computers. It is quite unbelievable that Microsoft continue to release updates that break our user machines! This seems to be happening on a …
New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103713 & KB4130978 Read MoreI don’t know about you, but Server Manager loading up every time I login to a Windows Server 2016 machine drives me nuts! This is especially annoying when using my lab as most of the hardware is just old bits of kit that is not being used in production any longer. In older versions of Windows Server, there was a …
Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup Read MoreYet again it looks as though Microsoft have pushed out their updates without testing them fully first! More problems have been reported after this round of Tuesdays updates which is now becoming a very regular occurrence. Again, after much Googling and removing updates one by one, we finally came to the conclusion that two more Microsoft updates were also causing …
New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103718 & KB4103727 Read MoreA few days ago we posted here about two Microsoft updates that had been causing us a number of problems with our older Windows 7 machines. We thought that we had resolved all of our issues in relation to these updates, but we have this week seen machines dropping off the network and ramdomly rebooting themselves when connecting to wireless networks. …
KB4099950 & KB4093113 – Yet More Faulty Windows Updates Released by Microsoft Read MorePowershell is an awesome tool and can help IT professionals in gathering information in a split second whereas otherwise it could take hours manually. We were recently asked to carry out a number of tasks for information gathering for annual housekeeping. The tasks were varied but were made up of information from Active Directory and Exchange. This meant that we …
Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV Read MoreMicrosoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers. We have particularly hit with issues on Windows 7 machines. Although there are reported issues with Server 2008 R2 as well. So, having spent a few hours searching for todays culprit, we found that the update causing the issue is this one: KB4093118 …
KB4093118 & KB4093108 – Another Faulty Windows Update Released by Microsoft Read MoreIf you want to use Active Directory modules for Powershell then you can will need to run the commands to import the required module and then install the RSAT tools. To do this, open up an elevated Powershell command box and run the following command to import the Server Manager module: Import-Module ServerManager Once that has completed, then run the …
Import Active Directory Powershell Module Read MoreUsers love to keep their email for as long as they possibly can, but when IT Admins start telling them to archive their email because their mailbox is too big, sometimes things get worse and PST files end up being created all over your corporate Filestores. Even worse than that, users will create their PST files and keep them locally …
SCCM – Report on PST File Locations Read More
