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Organization security policies block unauthenticated access

29th October 20183rd November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Are you trying to access a network share using unauthenticated user credentials? – in simple terms, are you trying to access a network share without using a username and password? …

Group Policy Administrative Templates Catalog

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Group Policy Admin Templates Catalog

15th October 20183rd September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Group Policy is an awesome tool for IT Departments to ensure that their end user computers have the correct enforcement settings on them. It also ensures that company policies are …

Guide / Microsoft / News / Servers / Windows

KB4457139 – Windows Server 2008 NIC Issues

2nd October 20182nd October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We have over the last week or so had problems with Windows Server 2008 servers where, although they seem to be connecting through the network without any problems, like filestores, …

Guide / Microsoft / Windows

Windows Service Stuck in Stopping Mode

24th September 201830th November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

A simple step by step guide on how to fix a Windows service stuck in stopping mode.

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KB4457144 – Windows 7 Rollup May Cause NIC Issues

11th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Windows 7 seems to have been suffering a lot recently with Microsoft releasing updates on an almost weekly basis that breaks something within the still popular Operating System. You can …

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Get folders and sizes for all mailboxes using Exchange Shell

3rd September 201830th November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We recently had a request to provide to our Project Management team, a full list of all Exchange mailboxes with all folders within each mailbox and also the total sizes …

Guide / Microsoft / SCCM

Creating Current User Registry Keys in a SCCM Package

20th August 20183rd May 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We were asked recently about how to use a SCCM package to amend current user registry keys (HCU). To be honest, we didn’t really know, HCU registry changes have always …

Microsoft / Guide / Servers

Test your SMTP server using Windows Telnet Feature

13th August 201830th June 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you want to test your SMTP server is working correctly, you can use the telnet feature within Windows. The following guide will walk you through the steps to carry …

Guide / Group Policy / Microsoft / MSI / SCCM / USP / Video Guides / Windows

Windows 10 God Mode – Setup and Deploy

6th August 20185th June 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

God Mode for Windows is nothing new but have you got Windows 10 God Mode setup and do you want to deploy to end users? As you may have seen …

Guide / Microsoft / Servers / Windows

Enable Windows Task Scheduler History

18th July 20182nd September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 4 Comments.

How to enable Windows Task Scheduler History information if it is not showing on your computer or server

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Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818

13th July 201811th August 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 18 Comments.

You may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? …

Guide / Exchange / Microsoft / Powershell

Exchange Shell – Get all Shared Mailboxes Information

6th July 201822nd June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Following on from our previous post about how IT professionals can use the tools available to them to make their lives easier, we have another Exchange Management Shell (EMS) script …

News / Guide / Microsoft

New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4284842

3rd July 20183rd July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Microsoft have done it again and released another update “fix” which has broken Windows 7 machines. This seems to be the same sort of issue as before where the wifi …

Guide / Exchange / Microsoft / Powershell

Exchange Shell – Export all shared mailbox permissions to CSV

27th June 201822nd June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Sometimes as IT professionals, we get asked to supply a lot of data to company bosses. This can be extremely frustrating especially when what you want to do is fix …

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CMTrace Bundled with Configuration Manager Client Install

22nd June 201822nd June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

CMTrace is an awesome tool and I have been copying it onto an end users machine using a batch file during the OSD process for years. But finally, Microsoft have …

Microsoft / Guide

Upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)

20th June 201828th May 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Do you need to upgrade your Certificate Authority from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256)? Well we recently had to carry this out as a test in a lab environment. None of …

News / Guide / Microsoft / SCCM / Windows / WSUS

KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines

18th June 201811th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

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 …

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SCCM OSD Stuck on “Just a moment…”

15th June 20187th September 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - 3 Comments.

We came across a problem with our SCCM OSD recently where it was getting through approximately half the build process and then seemingly getting stuck on “Just a moment…” before …