KB4099950 & KB4093113 – Yet More Faulty Windows Updates Released by Microsoft
A 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...
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Powershell – Export all members of all AD Security Groups to CSV
Powershell 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...
KB4093118 & KB4093108 – Another Faulty Windows Update Released by Microsoft
Microsoft 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...
Import Active Directory Powershell Module
If 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....
SCCM – Report on PST File Locations
Users 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,...
How to take ownership of a Windows File
If you have a stubborn file that you cannot delete or move, then you will need to take ownership of the file to allow you to carry out any action...
How to use MSI Installers for silent distribution
For mass distribution of software, there are a few options. Group Policy and Configuration Manager are perfect examples of systems that can utilise MSI installers to push out to a...
Start a stopped service on multiple devices using Powershell
Following on from our recent guide about restarting a service on multiple devices, we were also asked about starting a stopped service using a similar method. This is pretty simple...
How to create correct partitions to deploy a Windows image to a UEFI based device
We have recently come across an issue when trying to deploy a test virtual machine using Hyper-V (Generation 2 – UEFI) that once you have selected your task sequence, you...
Restart a service on multiple devices using Powershell
We recently had a requirement to restart a single service on multiple devices across a single network. At first, it was going to be the job of the helpdesk to...
Active Directory Password Expiring Email Notification
Does your 1st line help desk get fed up of having to reset end users passwords “because they didn’t know their password was expiring?” Well, let us show you a...
SCSM – Deleting Individual Items
When using System Center Service Manager (SCSM) you can sometimes end up with Incidents, Change Management items or Service Requests that need to be deleted individually. You an carry this...
Microsoft Windows 10 Edition Evaluation Product Keys
After our recent post about providing our visitors with a number of evaluation and KMS Microsoft product keys, please see below the latest set in this series. These are the...
Windows 10 Version 1709 Language Pack Downloads
With the release of Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), you may have a need for the updated operating system language packs. So, below is a full list...
Group Policy Corruption – Fix the processing of Group Policy failed error
If you are getting Group Policies that are not applying to a users machine, you may well come across this error: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not...
Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing
We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder...
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Cannot access network shares fix
Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just...
How to download Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ISO offline installers
With Microsoft‘s release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), you may want to have the ability to choose when to update your personal or corporate machines and maybe...
