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Microsoft Update causing Print Spooler Problems – CVE-2019-1367

5th October 20196th October 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

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 …

Servers / Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / Windows

Remove Windows Server Disabled Roles and Features Payload Files

16th September 20191st September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

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 …

Exchange-Export-all-permissions-on-all-mailboxes

Exchange / Guide / Microsoft / Powershell

Exchange Shell – All Permissions on all Mailboxes

5th August 201925th August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

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 …

Microsoft / Guide / Servers / Windows

Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Product Keys

29th July 201925th August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

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 …

Guide / Microsoft / Windows

Missing Windows 10 Desktop Wallpaper Fix

29th July 201925th August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

How to fix the Windows 10 Desktop Wallpaper Disappearing Problem

Microsoft / Guide / MSI / News / Office

Microsoft Teams MSI Installers

8th July 20192nd September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

In most business environments, you will find that Microsoft Teams is used a lot. Especially as Microsoft seem to be starting the push from Skype to Teams. But, this means …

Active Directory / Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / Servers

Get OU Distinguished Name

1st July 20191st July 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

There are many reasons as to why you would need to identify an Active Directory Organisational Unit’s Distinguished Name. Most techies out there will use an AD distinguished name when …

Microsoft / Group Policy / Guide / News / Powershell / Windows

Windows 10 1903 RSAT Installation

24th June 201917th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 1 Comment

The Windows 1903 upgrade has now been released however, yet again, RSAT has not been included in the upgrade. So it comes as a bit of a shock when you …

Microsoft Windows 10 Methods for upgrade to Windows 1903

Windows / Guide / Microsoft / News

How to Manually Update to Windows 1903

22nd June 201922nd June 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are looking to update your Windows 10 to the latest version of 1903, you would normally just head into Settings > Update and Security and then check for …

General Tech / Microsoft / Office

How to configure Outlook 2016 in Windows 10

24th May 201924th May 2019 - by Annabel Johnson - Leave a Comment

Wondering how to configure Outlook 2016 in windows 10? If yes, then I am here to help you out. Once you made decision to buy outlook 2016, then you already …

Microsoft / Guide / SCCM

Windows 10 Language Packs

13th May 201914th May 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 4 Comments.

We manage a number of businesses across the world and we very often have to ensure that end users in different countries have their required Windows languages available to them. …

Office / Guide / Microsoft / Video Guides / YouTube

How to Embed a Video in Word

29th April 20198th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 2 Comments.

Step by step guide on how to embed a video into a Microsoft Word document.

Guide / Microsoft / Windows

Enable NTVDM

8th April 201925th August 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We were recently asked to enable NTVDM on a number of Windows devices in our corporate environment for our firmware engineers. Due to the amount of devices that we needed …

SCSM / Guide / Microsoft / SQL

How to migrate a SCSM database

4th March 201920th April 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently had a situation where we needed to upgrade our SQL server that had the System Center Service Manager (SCSM) databases on it. This meant that we would need …

Guide / Microsoft / Powershell / SCOM / SCORCH / Servers

System Center Operations Manager Invalid Management Group Removal

25th February 201919th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently carried out some work for a client who had a completely ruined installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). Who had done what to it, we may never …

Guide / Microsoft

Office 365 URL and IP Addresses

18th February 201927th April 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are using Office 365 in your corporate environment, then it’s a pretty safe bet that you are also using some sort of web security. We have come across …

Guide / Microsoft / SCORCH / SQL

Migrate a System Center Orchestrator database to a different SQL Server

17th December 201819th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We were running through our list of servers and looking at what each one was doing in terms of Domain Controllers, Exchange servers, SQL servers, System Center servers etc when …

Guide / Microsoft / Query / SQL

SQL Query to find members of an Active Directory Security Group

26th November 201820th April 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently helped out with a data migration which included creating a completely new set of Active Directory security groups. They wanted all the members to have the same level …