We've already enabled several NPOs to leverage the benefits offered by Microsoft, not only through tt-Exchange, but also through Office 365 and CRM, now Microsoft is expanding this to include Azure, should be interesting. "Why we need a public cloud…
If you ever see this error when a user is trying to log on to a Remote Desktop Server: The task you are trying to do can't be completed because Remote Desktop Services is currently busy. Please try again in…
Unfortunately there is no single Group Policy Setting to choose the UAC Level. We wanted to specify the Level of the UAC Slider with GP, it turns out that you need to define all of the settings below to ensure that…
We've increasingly noticed that downloading from Microsoft VLSC fails, if you want to revert to the trusty old Akamai Download Manager then you need to fake being an old browser... Login to the VLSC as normal and get to your…
We've been deploying Cyberoams Unified Threat Management Gateways (Read firewall) for over three years now, they're great devices, so we were a little worried what would happen when Sophos bought the company as they'd previously purchased Astaro and re-branded it…
Due to continued growth, we're looking for more IT technicians. What do we do? We design, sell, implement and support IT infrastructure for small to medium size businesses (SMB). What IT Infrastructure? Everything from micro-businesses running on PCs with Office…
We've had a couple of clients report issues using Office 365, either via Outlook Web App or Outlook. In both scenarios they were using Mac/iOS devices going through a Tilgin router on JTs Fibre. In both scenarios changing the client…
WSUS clients that normally report in to the WSUS console sometimes stop reporting even though they are still receiving and applying updates. The following Registry settings define the update location for the WSUS Agent: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate] "WUServer"="http://SERVER:8530" "WUStatusServer"="http://http://SERVER:8530", Firstly, check the…
VSS Errors are a fairly common occurrence, with most resolutions being "reboot the server". Each VSS Writer is linked to a Windows Service. Often VSS Errors can be resolved by restarting the corresponding service. The following PowerShell script will check…
Sometimes our Hyper-V guests were being backed up offline as opposed to online or backed up using saved state as opposed to using child partition snapshots. If the guest is not aware it's being backed up then applications like Exchange…