In the fall of 2022, Microsoft announced a $10 Billion (yes, that a “B” for billion) dollar investment in a company named OpenAI that makes the fabled ChatGPT and they are scrambling to get the most out of that investment, but making integrating it into everything Microsoft makes, including Windows […]
There are some very confusing things about the Windows Recycle Bin that even experienced administrators don’t understand. When looking at Advanced System Properties > User Profiles it is important to note that the size of the profile listed does not include that user’s Recycle Bin and if you delete a […]
To delegate a user rights to shared mailbox in Exchange it pretty easy: The problem with adding a delegate through the Exchange portal is the delegated mailbox will “automap” into the users Outlook. If you have a bunch of these delegated shared mailboxes in your Outlook it can get a […]
In an article we published yesterday, we provided a simple PowerShell script to export a list of all of your stale Active Directory user accounts to a simple text file with nice columns that you could manipulate in Excel. In this follow-up article, we explain how to easily see the […]
If your Windows 10 or Windows 11 or even Windows Server, is having problems like: there are a five easy things you can do to fix the problems: 1 – Uninstall Windows Bloatware Programs Just right click on your start button and select INSTALLED APPS (or PROGRAMS AND FEATURES… depends […]
October will be the last (unpaid) update available for Windows Server 2012R2 which means if you patch your servers every quarter, you have until January 2024 to upgrade them… if you want to stay safe. We have upgraded many servers from Server 2012R2 to Server 2016 and while the process […]
If you were on a Windows computer and you need to know the MAC address it is using you can simply use IPCONFIG /ALL in a command prompt. However, what if you don’t know anything more than the host name or IP address of a device, it is a bit […]
The title of this article might seem a bit convoluted but this article will explain how to troubleshoot Azure AD Sync failures. In our case we have a client that was making a lot of changes on their on premise active directory and then found that new accounts created on-prem […]
Many of our clients know their Volume License / Open License / Open Business / Open Value / Enterprise / Education Windows Server activation keys but they do not have an ISO for their product. The easy solution is to log into the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (MSVLSC) and […]
If you are struggling to activate your Windows Server and see ERROR 0X0C004F074 The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activatedwe have the answer. What does error is probably trying to tell you is that The server is trying to connect to a key management server […]
In this short article we are going to explain several things that all tech’s need to understand both the Delivery Optimization service in Windows. 1 – What is the Windows Delivery Optimization Service (WUDO)? The Windows Delivery Optimization Service (aka WUDO) let’s your computer pull parts of updates from computers […]
What Does CHKDSK /SPOTFIX Do? CHKDSK /SPOTFIX is a new feature of Check Disk that became available with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and is exclusive to NTFS partitions. /SPOTFIX scans only the areas that have been detected as problematic by NTFS, instead of the whole drive. As a […]
The Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is a dead communications API (application program interface) that was replaced in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 with the new Storage Management API. VDS was a COM service which is a loose way to allow programs communicate. You can think of COM as in […]
Why Block PST’s? If you work in a corporate environment your legal department may have a requirement to stop users from exporting email to PST. At first this might seem silly or over controlling but there may be a good reason for it. REDUCE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT Management may want […]
A client of ours has a Lenevo Thinkbook 14 Gen 2 which she wants to wipe and load a fresh Windows 10 or Windows 11. She followed our video instructions on how to do a bare metal Windows 11 (same as Windows 10) install but got stuck on the WHERE […]
Azure Code Signing is a service provided by Microsoft that enables software developers to securely “sign” their code using digital certificates. When code is signed with a digital certificate, it provides an assurance that the code (any code – Windows executables, PowerShell scripts, and Java code…) has not been tampered […]