Does anyone really like to be bullied? Is arrogance something most people aspire to achieve, or behavior socially embraced? You know the answers. But these qualities too much describe Apple since its sudden success starting in 2010. The company continually sticks a middle finger in the face of competitors, judges, […]
Today Office 2013 was RTM’d (Released to Manufacturing) and again the question of 32bit or 64bit has come up. Microsoft’s answer is also my answer: In most cases, install the 32-bit version of Microsoft Office. We recommend the 32-bit version of Office, because it helps prevent compatibility issues with most […]
My God this has frustrated me. You likely know that Microsoft has removed the start button from Windows 8 and early versions of third party coded Start buttons were unusable… not anymore! There are now several answers and I will begin with the two I most like. 1: CLASSIC SHELL […]
After running SFC/ SCANNOW, performing a clean boot and about a dozen other standard IT tricks, I found a blog that nailed the issue. It had to do with the Notification Area… yes, I know that sounds stupid but that is what it was and later I found MS documentation to […]
After much work and about an hour with Microsoft I determined that the nut of the problem was the automatic setup on the Galaxy S3… don’t use it, click MANUAL SETUP. But first… make sure your phone is patched to the current build as Samsung had a few issues prior to […]
The maximum OST / PST file size number differs depending on the version Outlook and type of .PST .OST: Outlook 2002 – 2GB Legacy “ANSI” Outlook 2003 – 20GB Unicode Outlook 2007 – 20GB Unicode Outlook 2010 – 50GB Unicode Outlook 2013 – Variable In Outlook 2013 you can set the amount of time […]
You can now download the new LIVE tools including Movie Maker and Photo Gallery from download.live.com . My comments are roughly those of Wikipedia’s sooooo here they are: Microsoft released Windows Essentials 2012 on August 7, 2012 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users.[13] Windows Essentials 2012 included for the […]
Android (Google Inc.) — 104.8 million units, 68.1% share (46.9% a year earlier) iOS (Apple Inc.’s iPhone) — 26.0 million units, 16.9% share (18.8% a year earlier) BlackBerry (Research in Motion Ltd.) — 7.4 million units, 4.8% share (11.5% a year) Symbian (mostly used by Nokia Corp.) — 6.8 million […]
If your AD account becomes locked over and over again (especially after a recent password change), it is likely something on your PC/Server has cached the old password and is causing the account to lock. There are several ready places to look for this… and I will get to those […]
This was a frustrating error that, if I had slowed down for 2 minutes, would have been easy for me to figure out what was wrong. The issue was that the Exchange Power Shell – Management Shell cmdlets was not in the location Exchange expected sooooo, I had to run the […]
No… how is that for direct! I have confirmed with Microsoft Partner Support that Media Center will ONLY be available for Windows 8 Professional via the MEDIA CENTER ADD ON PACK to be released in October 2012. I have joined the many and asked Microsoft to change this as there are […]
The solution is to: click START (gets you to the tiles) type RUN type slui 3 and press ENTER yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window SLUI 2 brings up the activation window SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window SLUI […]
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent […]
It turns out that Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) has a dandy EXPORT, IMPORT feature. The only thing that isn’t particularly obvious is that you have to EXPORT (and IMPORT) in the GROUP POLICY OBJECTS folder, and not on any of the OU’s. On the old/source domain, start GPMC Expand your […]
Windows 8 RTM’d on August 1st 2012 and will be made available to developers and techs on August 15th. “General Availability” meaning retail packaging and OEM hardware sales will commense on October 26th. The President of the Microsoft’s Windows group said: While we have reached our RTM milestone, no software […]
BACKGROUND: Every machine I install the lastest Windows Update Agent on results in a 800B0001 error when getting updates “FROM YOUR SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR” but have no problems when getting “UPDATES FROM MICROSOFT UPDATE”. This is the same as: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/partnerwinclient7rc/thread/e64bdfef-f92a-4924-85f1-6b858ec81c59 All of the machines in question are Win 7 64Bit Enterprise […]