It’s the 21st century and everything is now digital including your legal identity. We all so tired of hearing that we should change our passwords and the like that we have now tuned out much of the conversation about security but periodically we really need to tune back in and […]
In the video below we show how to remove the spinning disk from a Dell Latitude 5480 and replace it with a larger one and then enable SSD Caching. To use SSD Caching your PC needs: The connectors to add an SSD and a spinning disk A BIOS that supports SSD […]
We explain and demonstrate what Intel Optane is, what you need to run it, and if it will really improve your PC’s performance. What is Intel Optane? Intel Optane is an accelerator for your hard drive. Intel Optane is stick of non-volatile memory, which means it does not get wiped clean […]
Even the latest Windows 10 1703 still has SMB1 enabled by default. If you want to keep yourself safe from WannaCry / WannaCrypt0r 2 variants you need to disable SMB 1.0. You can disable SMB 1.0 in 5 ways: A – How to Disable SMB 1 using the GUI Click the START […]
If you have Windows 10 1703 or newer your Internet Explorer will have a “Edge Tab” to the right of your “new tab” tab. This means people will frequently launch the Edge Browser when they are really trying to open a new tab. Microsoft calls this ‘assisting people to migrate […]
UPDATE JANUARY 2020: SOLVED: Setup Office365ProPlus To Using Windows 10 Delivery Optimization ____________ There are three ways to patch Office 2016 from Office365 : What you can’t do is control Office365 updates through WSUS. Wait a minute, you say you saw a WSUS category named OFFICE365 CLIENT and the research says […]
If you see your mapped drives disappear you may have a Group Policy that maps your network shares using the REPLACE feature. Another symptom I noticed occurs if you remote (RDP) to a different PC and leave it for a few days, multiple mappings for the same letter will appear. The simple fix […]
If you are trying to install the Microsoft Junk E-Mail Reporting Add-In and you see: “The installation is unable to proceed due to missing dependencies.” you might be tempted to believe the documentation that indicates .NET 2.0 or greater is the only real dependency. You also might believe that your […]
If you have a problematic Upgrade entry in WSUS, you may want to remove it. The next time you perform a sync with Microsoft, it will re-appear. In my case, I had problems with “Windows 10 Pro, version 1607, RETAIL” and after a few weeks of banging on it, I found […]
If you are trying to find the most current Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Unified Communicator Advanced UCA) on the internet, you are looking in the wrong place. You already have it. It is stored on your Mitel MAS server. To download the most current Mitel UCA build your hardware can […]
If you are working on a network you are going to see some IPv6 traffic and it can get quite confusing. A “loopback” is an address that causes the traffic to be sent to the same interface is was sent out on on the localhost. Usage of loopback addresses are particularly […]
To allow WSUS (and presumably SCCM) to support Windows 10 Anniversary, Microsoft released a patch last month which blew up a number of WSUS servers. They have now released KB3159706 which is supposed to fix that problem and support Windows 10 Anniversary. This patch installs on WSUS servers through the […]
IE11 is not supported on R1. This is quite frustrating and if Microsoft has not released IE11 for Server 2012 R1 by now (summer of 2016), they aren’t ever going to. This is likely because Windows Server 2012 R1 has a Windows 8 core and Microsoft will be killing off Windows 8 […]
I was trying to install Pulse Secure Installer Service and received the ever wonderful: THE SPECIFIED ACCOUNT ALREADY EXISTS on both the MSI and EXE versions of their installer on Windows 10. The solution was to download the Microsoft install cleaner which you can do HERE. This tool will work on Windows […]
On SOME Windows 10 machines, I have seen “You’re seeing Basic Mail because you’re using an unsupported Internet browser” and both Yahoo AND Yahoo Mail look like crap. This is caused by Internet Explorer trying to run Yahoo pages in Compatibility Mode, basically in an IE7 mode. “Wait a minute” […]
“Best” is a relative word so let me be clear that I think the Lumia 650 will be the best cell phone buy of 2016. In January Microsoft announced Lumia 650 which has amazing spec’s… for the price. At just $200 this cell has everything a standard user would want, […]