In this short article we are going to provide half a dozen answers to common Local System account questions. What is The Local System Account In Windows? The Local System account is a user account created when the operating system is installed and is used primarily to run Windows Services […]
Virtual machines built in azure will be defaulted to having updates automatically downloaded and installed when they are released on patch Tuesday. When you look at windows update you will see it says Some settings are managed by your organization which inplies that there is a group policy object being […]
In the days of yesteryear, legal gambling was limited mostly to physical casinos that purchased (or more often leased) a wide assortment of mechanical slot machines from a very small number of manufacturers. Then came digital slot machines with exciting graphics, sounds, and lots of options but those machines rarely […]
In this short video we demonstrate the three ways to use a Group Policy to uninstall software from Windows 10 and Windows 11 client PC’s. If you have a Microsoft Windows Domain, you have access to easily uninstall software using Active Directory Group Policy. To get started, launch the GROUP […]
In this short video we demonstrate how to push software to Windows 10 and Windows 11 client PC’s using Group Policy. To get started, launch the GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT TOOL, create new policy then expand COMPUTER CONFIGURATION > POLICIES > SOFTWARE SETTINGS > SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
If you need to figure out which server is the WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) server or you need to know if the computer you are working on is pointing to a particular WSUS server, you need to know where the WSUS registry key is. The WSUS Registry Key is: […]
Most larger companies will want to keep track of the what the IT staff are doing to Active Directory. In particular it is important to know who created, disabled and deleted accounts or made changes to email or security groups. On a Domain Controller (or something with RSAT tools installed), […]
Most companies are worried about data exfiltration which is a fancy CTO / CISO way of saying data leaving your company. It used to be that most security and IT staff spent their days focusing nearly exclusively on hacks coming from outside the company, but today we see more and […]
NOTE: Oct 30 2023 – We had a client who thought the bounce was occurring ON A REPLY. It was not; it was simply that the bounce (NDR) on the original message was RECEIVED AFTER they had replied. the bounce was taking 3+ minutes to be received and in that […]
Microsoft recently added new channels to Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Office 365) and renamed the old channels New Name Channel Code Previous Names Beta Channel BetaChannel Insider, Insider Fast, Monthly Current Channel (Preview) CurrentPreview Monthly Channel (Targeted), Targeted, Insiders, Slow, Preview Current Channel Current Monthly Channel, Monthly, Deferred Monthly Enterprise Channel […]
We recently tried to connect to the administrative shares (i.e. C$, E$, admin$, …) on a PC that was not part of a Domain using a Microsoft Account that was setup on that remote PC. We were frustrated to find it errored out with “You might not have permission to […]
UPDATED: Jan 3 2022 If you are trying to get rid of Internet Explorer inside your organization, you likely will want to use the new Microsoft Edge (aka. Chromium Edge and CrEdge). The problem is that there are some features inside IE that most companies still can’t live without due […]
If you have Office365 ProPlus (aka Office 2016/2019) you will know that it updates constantly. Originally patches were released weekly but from 2018 one they are released monthly. To be clear, Office365 Pro Plus patches are released on the second Tuesday of each month (aka Patch Tuesday), just like Windows […]
Most users, especially those will laptops, will want Outlook to operate in Cached mode but you likely don’t want Outlook caching on boardroom / focus room / huddle room / client room computers. Cache mode copies a large amount of data from the Exchange server to an .OST file on […]
If you want to block programs from running on your corporate network, you can easily create a Group Policy Object (GPO) to make that happen. However, there are two GPO’s you can use but only one of them works well. Method 1 – GPO to Block Software By File Name […]
When you create a SCHEDULED TASK that needs to run automatically you will specify a service account for the job. That service account must have permissions to run batches, so Windows will popup “This Task Requires That The User Account Specified Has Log On As Batch Job Rights” as shown […]