windows

howto://change UPN suffixes with PowerShell

2011-10-10

Need to change the UPN suffix on a bunch of users, and don’t want to do it by hand? Here’s a simple PowerShell script to do the heavy lifting for you.

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howto://make Windows 7 file transfers fly

2011-10-04

Speed up SMB transfers over the WAN with this little reghack/performance tuning trick.

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howto://customise Lync 2010 status messages

2011-09-23

Want to customise Lync 2010′s status messages, or enable the secret “appear offline mode?” Me too! Here’s how.

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howto://add the telnet client to windows

2011-05-18

Seeking the telnet client in recent versions of Windows? Look no further, here is how we do it.

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Message in an email…fail

2011-04-15

Got a client who suddenly cannot play voicemails from a Unified Communications system? Here’s the fix.

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howto://use Windows 2008 on your laptop

2011-03-30

If you have tried to install Windows 2008 on your laptop and run into a brick wall getting wireless working, here’s a quick tip. YMMV but this has worked for me on a couple of different Dell’s and an Acer, even when using 2008R2 (which is of course 64bit only) so it’s good enough to [...]

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howto://print to file without specifying a path each time

2011-03-21

In troubleshooting some printing problems, I found myself needing to set up a printer that was a print to file. We wanted to see the PCL settings to figure out why a job would occasionally try to go to the manual feed tray, but that is another story for another post. To set up a [...]

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Just Add Dropbox: Share Folder Etiquette

2011-03-16

Dropbox is an incredible utility and the longer I use it the more I find it indispensible. We’ve discussed using Dropbox with OneNote to keep all your writing centralized. We’ve also gone over making Windows Live Writer more portable thru Junction folders and Dropbox. One feature that’s been seriously useful is the shared folder capability. [...]

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howto://set page file and crash handling with wmic

2011-03-14

Setting up a new datacentre can be a lot of fun; or it can be a royal pain in the arse, depending upon how much time you have, how much you can plan out in advance, and how much it hurts when someone changes their mind. When we collectively decided to bring the pain, determining [...]

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howto://”mirror” usb drives, or not…

2011-03-02

Windows won’t support dynamic disks on USB drives, so what’s a geek to do if he wants a mirror? Read this to find out.

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We interrupt your morning to bring you the following announcement

2011-02-23

This just in…Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 SP1 is now available! It was available briefly on Windows Update, but is not showing for all systems just yet. You can download it from Microsoft, using link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda. The download weighs in at almost 2GB, so if you are only going to update one machine, you [...]

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