WCF WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. A communication-oriented set of APIs and a “runtime” inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API’s and products in the .NET space. It can and should be…
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 55.0.2883.75. If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer direct from…
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to…
The demo of the excellent flight simulator, X-Plane 11 is now available to download and play. Just click the button below to download the free demo now and take to the skies! X-Plane 11 Demo Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to…
If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want…
So it’s the start of a new month shortly and Xbox Live Gold members can again download some free games! It’s a really good month of free games this coming December with two extra games in Sleeping Dogs and Burnout Paradise. The full set of available games in December are as below: Xbox One: Sleeping…
We have recently been asked to report on Google Earth installations within our SCCM environment. So, as we were already collecting the EXE file information within our hardware inventory, we could make use of the SoftwareFile data in the SCCM SQL database. Also, having spent some time Googling a query for Google Earth, we found that…
Our second find of the day is this Air Fryer from Amazon selling today for just £39.99! Click the button below to take a look at this deal: Air Fryer – £39.99 Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our free subscription…
So our first find of the day is this great offer on a 750GB SSD for just £105.99 from Amazon. Just click the link below to take a look at the offer: 750GB SSD – £105.99 Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up…
So, its Black Friday – the day that everyone goes to the shop to have a fight over a crap TV that the shop has not been able to sell all year!! But, in all seriousness, there are a few really good deals out there and we will be keeping our eye out for any…
We are delighted to say that this post is our 1000th post to be published on TechyGeeksHome. Just a few years ago we started this blog site as a place to store information for ourselves just as a reminder more than anything but as more people started to view our guides we pushed forward and…
Notepad++ has now been upgraded to version 7.2.1. You can download this latest version by clicking the download button below: Download Notepad++ v7.2.1 Notepad++ v7.2.1 bug-fixes: Fix x64 installer regression issue – install in “C:Program Files” instead of “C:Program Files (x86)” Fix expanding environment variables regression in backup path. Make installer Unicode again. We will shortly…
If you would like to distribute Mozilla Firefox using Group Policy, WDS or SCCM, then you will probably appreciate having the MSI installer to do this. Luckily there is a site that provides the MSI installers for Mozilla Firefox called FrontMotion. There is an archive of available MSI installers but the latest one available is…
Mimecast have now released version 7.0.1762.17740 of their Outlook Client. To push this out using SCCM or Group Policy, we recommend using the MSI command below: msiexec.exe /i “MSOInstall.msi” /passive /norestart What this will do is to firstly run the installer, then the /passive will show a basic user interface without user interaction, but will…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 23.0.0.207. As always, you can download the executable file but if you want the MSI files so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog, you can get that here. The update is also…
If you are using a print server you may find that you come across an error when trying to connect a end user to a printer stating: Windows Cannot Connect to the Printer This is caused when the print driver is updated or a new driver is created on the print server and stops the…
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 54.0.2840.99. If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer direct from…
Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you…
