If you have ever tried to figure out how to insert a clickable interactive map into your website, you likely have found a number of utilities and plugins that will do the work for you. However, there is a straight forward way to insert a Google Map …
This short video explains how to use Google Maps on your mobile device to avoid toll roads. If you use your Android cell or Apple iPhone or even your tablet / Apple iPad for navigation and you want to avoid tolls, then this …
If you are replacing your Windows 10 hardware or just moving a user from one PC to another you can use User State Migration Tool (USMT). Download the latest Deployment Kit USMT directly from Microsoft Install the ADK Copy the …
Personal data security has never been so important, yet many people grant websites and apps access to their Facebook account as if it is worthless data. If you have not reviewed the apps that have access to your Facebook profile …
On November 29th, 2016 release 1607 of Windows 10 became “Current Branch For Business” (CBB) and 1607 will start being deployed to all 1507 Machines as of January 2017. Microsoft has a ‘2 version’ rule that states Microsoft will support and …
If you are trying to decide what Products to include in your WSUS settings, this is the article for you. SCOM and WSUS currently have a dozen Windows 10 “products” listed but the descriptions are useless. After several hours of reading …
In my case I had 4 ZIP files as part of a Split (sometimes called Span) that had been moved from floppy disk to a DVD and renamed. This made it impossible form Windows EXTRACT or WinZip or 7Zip to figure …
I recently ran into a Microsoft Article indicating that it IS advisable to defrag a Clustered Shared Volume especially if that disk is housing Virtual Machines with Dynamically Expanding Disks. Unfortunately the answer is more complex really relates to WHERE that CSV …
If you have a Dell EqualLogic SAN or similar product providing shared disk for your cluster and you see: CHKDSK SCAN NEEDED ON VOLUME don’t panic. In the ‘old days’ a Chkdsk could take days to complete on a large …
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 …
If you are running a WSUS server and are seeing your client PC’s stuck a DOWNLOADING 0% of FEATURE UPDATE WINDOWS 10, you likely have not completed all of the manual steps required to allow WSUS to transmit the update. …
If you are trying to use PowerShell to delete an update from WSUS but are receiving an error similar to: Exception calling “DeleteUpdate” with “1” argument(s): “spDeleteRevision: cannot delete revisionid: 502004 because it is still deployed to a Non DSS …
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 …
If you have a Juniper / Pulse Secure VPN device and you use the Host Checker to confirm that connecting PC’s have an Anti Virus on them, you will eventually have a situation in which you need to allow and AV …
If you have a microphone that is not working on a Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Mitel UCA) you likely have to remove the TELEWORKER GATEWAY setting. Before making any changes, test your microphone is working by: click START and type …
Macros in Word, Excel and PowerPoint used to be one of the most common attack vectors but they largely died out near 2010. In 2016 they are being used aggressively in Crypto/Ransomware attacks and you may want to disable them. …