Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019 & 2022 How To’s
We recently created a video on how to easily setup and operate MABS in which we explained the difference between Microsoft Data Protection Manager, Microsoft Azure Backup Service and the Microsoft Azure Backup Server (both confusingly accroymed MABS). Part of that video was created for a client who was having Read more…
On the weekend we had a customer who was trying to remove one of their Microsoft Office 365 activations (which we have instructions for here), but instead they deactivating their laptop completely: They user disabled their computer by: To undo this mistake and administrator needs to reenable the device by: Read more…
One of our tech’s working in another city had a client with an auditor’s penetration test report indicating their SNMP was accessible on the internet from three different servers. They wanted to know if that was a bad thing and if it is bad, how they can test for it Read more…
If you’ve ever worked in group policy, you know that the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) hasn’t changed very much since it was introduced in Windows 2000 way back in 1999. One critical feature that’s been missing since day one, is the ability to search through a Group Policies to Read more…
With the advent of virtual machines came the notion that because hard drives can be expanded in the future you should set them to be as small as they possibly can be at the start. As a result our technicians are constantly having to clean up C:\ to make space. Read more…
We had a client who needed to know exactly what was installed on all of their servers in an effort to prepare for an audit. This client is quite small and only had about a dozen servers so instead of writing a script that remotely logs into each server and Read more…
A few days ago we had a client who had some software get reinstalled automatically after they manually uninstalled it. The tech that had originally managed this software has left the company and we are now managing their infrastructure. Naturally the client turned to us and asked if we could Read more…
If you are working on corporate network you may see important security popups that tell you the place you are launching a file or program from is not local. What this is trying to keep you safe from is accidentally opening files and programs from unsafe locations like random websites Read more…
When you connect to a Windows Server via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and see a list of logged-in users, the order in which the users are displayed does not necessarily indicate the sequence in which they logged on. Microsoft does not have any documentation on the sort order of the Read more…
If you work in the IT Department with Microsoft Windows technologies, you frequently need to determine details of a Windows Service. To help our Windows technicians we created this list of the top 100 Windows services in use today, along with a bit of detail to help them determine what Read more…
Ever wondered what browser cookies are and how they affect your browsing experience? In this video, we break down the basics of browser cookies, explaining what they are, how they work, and why they’re important. 0:00 Introduction0:32 What are in Browser Cookies1:26 How To Delete One Cookie In Browser2:36 Outro Read more…
Yesterday we had a client with a large number of servers that was unable to locate the server was hosting their Q:\ drive. You can use the NET USE command in Command Prompt to determine the name of the server hosting the Q:\ mapped drive. Here’s how you can do Read more…
As you can see in the screenshot below we have a client with a small seed drive of just 64 GB that was almost completely out of space. The image shows that they had 2.6 GB of space free but we took that after we had cleared 1.5 GB of Read more…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you likely have heard about HTML5, but most people really have no idea what it is or why it is better. Lets start with the basics and move on. WHAT IS HTML? HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is the simple (yes, simple… at Read more…
We recently worked with a client who had a mission critical server they did not want to power down to make hardware changes to. They were thinking because the server was a modern Windows Server 2019 running on VMware 7 with Memory Hot Add enabled, that they could avoid powering Read more…
Why Microsoft Renamed Superfetch to SysMain Superfetch, a feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista, was renamed to SysMain in later versions of Windows, starting with Windows 10. This change, while largely unnoticed by everyday users, marked a strategic update to improve the functionality and clarity of the Windows operating Read more…