Cornerstone Posts
With the recent flurry of migrations away from Windows 2003 you may see some migrated Group Policies (GPOs) reporting ghost settings for folder redirection or Internet Explorer Maintenance that no longer exist. Here’s how to remove them. Internet Explorer Maintenance Policies Internet Explorer Maintenance Policies were depreciated after IE9 and Microsoft made alternative options […]
Having trouble with deploying a VMware Windows 2008 R2 Template and it failing to sysprep? It could be you’ve sysprep’d the template image too many times. Here’s the fix.
I’ve often thought that certain password policies actually reduce security because users, being human, create less-than-secure mechanisms by writing passwords down or by reusing the same passwords whilst adding a simple digit on at the end. It now seems that GCHQ agrees with me!
I was initially going to call this article “Why do Great Engineers Often Become Poor Managers” but I decided this was an unfairly negative title for a complex issue with many variables. All industries have their good and bad managers, is IT any different?
One of the concerns I hear about enabling the journal mailbox (journaling), especially in smaller business, is the impact it will have on limited storage and how that can be managed – for minimum cost. File this one under cheap and cheerful – Outlook auto archive.
When you are paying 3rd party consultants to act as technical subject matter experts (SMEs) for your business are you really getting value for your money?
Traditionally RAID 10 is regarded as faster for data writes than RAID 5 but beware when creating arrays with fewer disks.
Does a dedicated team to handle your patching offer value for money when there are automated alternatives?
In previous versions of Windows if you wanted to import a large number of persistent routes you could import them directly into the registry. This no longer works on Windows 2012R2 so here’s a simple method using excel to create the ROUTE ADD commands.
So in preparation for Windows 10 I rebuilt my laptop but then I couldn’t get the Windows 10 upgrade icon to appear.
Helped me so much, thank you! Was driving me crazy trying (...)
Wow! Fixed me right up...Appreciate
Great content! Super high-quality! Keep it up!
Gracias Genio es tremendo el tiempo que me