We were configuring a Remote Desktop Server farm and needed to setup some group policies that only applied to computers that were Remote Desktop Servers. There are a couple of obvious ways you could acheive this. You could put your…
Microsoft’s Office 365 Exchange Online service is great, but some organisations cannot afford to pay the monthly costs that Microsoft asks. Thankfully there is an alternative in the form of Hotmail using a custom domain. This will allow you to…
We were setting up a couple of servers with a Exchange DAG and Remote Desktop Gateway services and ran in to an issue where the Remote Desktop Gateway was looping on asking for credentials. A fair bit of searching eventually…
We had a client who's To-Do bar showed "The operation failed. An object could not be found" and their reminders would stop working. We could get it working again by deleting the Outlook Profile and re-creating it, but a couple…
When browsing to a folder containing redirected My Documents folders (for Windows Vista/7 Users) on Windows Server 2008 or later, a very frustrating feature is that every folder is listed as "My Documents". In order to find out which folder…
Outlook Anywhere (formerly RPC over HTTP) is a fantastic feature that allows Exchange users to use Outlook in an environment where traditionally only a POP3 or IMAP solution could be used. There are many articles detailing how to configure Outlook…
This is a question that most IT people have debated time and time again over the years. I'm hoping we've definitevely got the answer now and it's not 1.5 times, 2 times or any other multiplication of memory, the value…
Focused IT are pleased to announce a new addition to the team. From 12 March 2012 Mervyn Last will be joining us – bringing with him over ten years of technology experience. Mervyn brings with him a wealth of experience,…
We were recently asked to take a fire damaged SBS Essentials 2011 running on a HP Proliant ML330 G6 and get it back up and running. As the server wasn't too high a spec we dragged out a half decent…
We support several charitable organisations and have just completed a complete network installation for once such client. We have saved them hundreds of pounds by suggesting to them that instead of purchasing full retail copies of Windows and Office they…