While the retail / consumer release of Windows 10 is on 29 July 2015, Volume License (Open License, Open Business, Enterprise Agreement) will have to wait a few more days: “Starting 1 August, active Software Assurance customers who have Volume Licensing …
Dec 2015 UPDATE: There ARE two ways to do a bare metal Windows 10 install from a machine with a Windows 7 or 8 licence: PREVIOUS INTALL: If you had previously installed the November 2015 update (called TH2, 1511 and 10586) to …
If you need to output your PowerPoint at high resolution you can change the TIFF export quality to 300DPI with a simply Registry modification. How To Set PowerPoint To Export High Res TIFFs: You do NOT need to close PowerPoint before …
If you need to apply a particular ActiveSync policy to only a particular Distribution Group you can run (and modify) the following script. # Put members of the Dist Group into a dynamic array $allMembers = Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity ‘<DISTRIBUTION GROUP NAME …
I accidentally surfed to purolotor.com rather than Purolator.com and was taken to wndow-security.com which redirected to wndow-security.com/win/massage887sx.html which showed a fake (but very real looking Norton alert like the one to the right. The only way for me to keep …
The simple math is that if you run any version of Windows 7 or 8 (other than Windows Enterprise) you will be allowed to automatically update through Windows Update to an equivalent version of Windows 10. For example: if your company runs …
I needed to be able to delete files left on an FTP server I run that are older than two months and to accomplish that I used the FORFILES command that came out with Windows 7 and Server 2008. I …
In Windows 10 there is a Notification Tile named QUIET HOURS that has many people confused. Quiet Hours are actually a feature that was released in Windows 8, that disables ALL notifications during the set times. This means things like …
If you have a Samsung S6, you know that the battery cannot be pulled out to force a reset. This is an unfortunately and annoying situation. As a result, we are left with a few key combinations that force device …
These are the least secure Operating Systems in 2014 as measured by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). As usual, Apple is way ahead of the pack in being the worst in security: Operating system # of vulnerabilities # of HIGH …
If you have a Mitel 5330 or 5330e or (well… most modern Mitel hand sets) with a Mitel 3300 MCD backed, it is very easy to reassign handsets. REPURPOSED MITEL 5330 If you have an existing device and you want …
If you have ever used OneDrive or OneDrive for Business, you most likely have tried to move a folder in and been promoted with “Folders and Invalid Files Can’t Be Dragged To Upload” which just makes no sense at all …
UPDATE: June 21, 2016 – Microsoft has released a free repair tool for the Windows 10 START menu. You can read very brief explanation and download it here. . It was a dark and stormy nighty in April when I …
If you have a SQL database stuck on RESTORING (see screen shot) the answer is likely to run a RESTORE command against the MASTER database. In my case I had been restoring one database over another (Production database into a …
If you want to know what your domain controllers Time Server configuration is you can run two simple command line query’s Below are the full details of the W32TM commandlet which has been the standard since Windows Vista and Windows …
If you have ever worked with System Center Configuration Manager to manage PC’s, you will know that changes do not take place quickly, and that can be frustrating. To have your PC’s take instruction from SCCM immediately, you need to …