One of our clients had a very scary experience today when a whole bunch (15GB+) of Public Folders went missing, gulp!!! They started off recovering from deleted items using Outlook, but this was painfully slow, luckily enough that gave them…
We were asked by an independent consultant to provide a second opinion for a small business that were being told by their IT provider, a large reputable company, that they needed to rebuild their server to resolve some IIS corruption…
Two great snippets of news today Microsoft Remote Desktop App Update - Now supports pinch and zoom Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 - Will support Windows Server 2012 R2
Microsoft have at long last released a Remote Desktop app for iOS and Android. http://blogs.technet.com/b/in_the_cloud/archive/2013/10/18/wow-remote-desktop-goes-cross-platform.aspx I don't find it as easy to use as iTap RDP but it's free and quick and easy to setup
We've just setup a Windows Server 2012 with Exchange 2013 and Remote Desktop Session Host services and ran in to an issue where XP clients (or machines without RDP 8 Update) can't remote desktop in to the server with the following:…
A Microsoft update released on September 10, 2013 has been the cause of a problem for PowerPoint users who make use of the ability to insert YouTube videos into their PowerPoint presentations. The "Insert" tab on the ribbon normally has…
Today, Microsoft expanded its software donation program to donate Office 365 to qualifying nonprofits worldwide. The offer is available in 41 countries today, and will roll out in up to 90 countries by July 2014. There's no limit on the…
"The size of user mailboxes in all Exchange Online and Office 365 service plans is doubling. Beginning today, the current 25 GB of mailbox storage is increasing to 50 GB. With this increase even the most active email users don't have to…
If you've got some huge log files then opening them up in Notepad just isn't feasible, but Tail or Get-Content -Tail will help... We had a 100GB log file and we needed to figure out why it was growing so…
We look after a few charities, all of which need some Microsoft software at some point and they're very lucky that they get this at remarkable pricing, for example... Office 2013 Professional with Software Assurance is £20.00 Windows Server 2012…