UPDATE JAN 2022 : You may be interested in our 2018 How to Fix WSUS tips: Easy SQL Commands To Clean Up WSUS Database Quickly WSUS Reset Server Node WSUSPool in IIS Stops Repeatedly If your Windows Server Update Services WSUS is having problems there are five easy things to […]
If you run a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server, you know that sometimes it can develop problems. Specifically the WSUS database can need a manual clean up. There are several scripts around that handle this but I found one HERE that helped me quite a bit. Note that this […]
If you have an Office365 account, you likely know that you have 50GB worth of storage space. However, it is not obvious how much of that 50GB limit you are currently using. Questions like: ‘How large is all of my email’, ‘How much space do I have left in my […]
UPDATE: VALIDATED THIS PROCESS ON WINDOWS 10 1909 – SEPT 18 2020 If you have Windows 10 clients on a WSUS server and you want to confirm that they are receiving patches from that WSUS server and not going directly to Microsoft to update, you used to just read the […]
If your Edge browser has be hijacked or has some other serious problem in Edge in Windows 10 we will show you how to remove and re-add Microsoft Edge which will perform a hard reset on it. This is the only way to perform a full repair on Edge. Edge is hard baked into […]
UPDATE: June 2, 2020 – Microsoft has changed the way they manage Cortana so in newer builds of Windows 10 the work is MUCH easier. See THIS article. If, like me, your Windows 10 Cortana is non-responsive (or you just don’t want Cortana) we will show you how to remove […]
Microsoft is making substantial changes to both the licencing and the technology in the different versions of Server 2016. In Server 2012 R2 the only difference between Standard and Datacenter was the number of HyperV Virtual Machines you could host and Datacenter cost several times more than Standard but in Windows […]
There are four ready ways to figure out when your computer was booted (or rebooted): Task Manager Shows Up Time: Command Prompt To Show UpTime: systeminfo | find /i “Boot Time” System Boot Time: 20/03/2015, 12:03:04 PM PowerShell 3 Command To Show Boot: Get-CimInstance -ClassName win32_operatingsystem | select csname, lastbootuptime For […]
UPDATED: March 2018 If you have worked on Windows 8 or newer, you will know that Microsoft has removed the F8 boot functionality. They did this to decrease boot times. What is odd is that they applied this logic to servers; I would not have. Regardless the F8 Safe Mode […]
If you are responsible for your corporate image and you are deploying Windows 10 you are likely going to want to set the default browser to Internet Explorer rather than Edge. The problem is there is no GPO or Answer File setting to make this change. After working with Microsoft […]
Windows 10 and 8 use a substantially different process to create images than what I had used in Windows XP and 7. Fortunately it is not rocket science. The four big differences are: So lets get to it. Simple Step By Step Instructions to Build A Windows 10 Customized Image: Thanks to […]
UPDATE: Mar 26, 2020 for Exchange ONLINE instructions we have How To Export All Email Addresses and Alias to A File From Office365 Exchange Online HERE. If you have ever been asked who has a particular email alias on an Exchange server, you know you in for trouble because the […]
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. UPDATE: Jan 19 2018 – If your issue is that typing searches into the START menu is very slow or sluggish, the […]
If you MOVE a Hyper-V Virtual Machine to Server 2012 R2 host and you want to move it back, you will be disappointed. Moving VM’s to Server 2012 R2 hosts is a one way street. This includes trying to move VM’s from Server 2012 R2 to 2012 R1. Moving a Hyper-V […]
If you are like most companies, when staff leave you delete their email accounts but you likely don’t give much thought to the Distribution Lists that they used. After a few years you can have quite a few unused Distribution Lists which does not do anyone good so you should […]
UPDATE JANUARY 10, 2020: Some of these no longer function, so we have a a complete list of ways to open the SETTINGS APP here: 16 Different Ways To Start Settings App Windows 10 _________________ If you are having problems with the START button or just want to write a […]