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SOLVED: How to Edit the TAGS List on Windows Files
If you want to edit the list of suggested TAGS in the Windows file system, you are going to be disappointed. The list of tags is made up of names you have typed in manually plus a hard coded list from...
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SOLVED: Internet Explorer Not Prompting For Download SAVE
If you click a link to download a file in Internet Explorer and the SAVE SAVE AS dialog does not appear, you may find that disabling PROTECTED MODE solves the issue. How to Turn Off Protected Mode: In...
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SOLVED: How to Disable the MEET YOUR NEW BROWSER in Internet Explorer
I have see, too often, the Internet Explorer First Run Wizard (which you will see as “Meet Your New Browser”) run EVERYTIME Internet Explorer is launched. The only pattern I have detected so far, is...
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SOLVED: How to Add Contacts Into Office 365 Mail
I recently had a friend ask how to add a contact into Office 365 web mail so I thought it was worth documenting in case someone else is also stuck. The easiest way to add contacts to your Office 365...
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SOLVED: How to Customize Your Google Plus Address URL
Google WILL let you customize the URL that is used to connect to your Plus.Google.com account. The instructions are below. However, you must meet certain requirements first: You have ten or more...
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SOLVED: How to Sync See Edit TASKS On a Samsung Galaxy S3 S4 S5 or S6
Modern Samsung Android devices do not have a dedicated TASKS app. The short answer is that TASKS now appear in a tab in the S PLANNER Calendar app. How to Sync, Edit or View TASKS from Outlook on your...
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SOLVED: How to Set the MACHINE POLICY RETRIEVAL & EVALUATION CYCLE Time in...
If you are trying to deploy System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP, pretty much Security Essentials), using System Center, you know that after you add a machine to the appropriate device collection...
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Solved: How To Perform An Offline Install of System Center Endpoint Protection
In anything but the simplest networks, there will always be a few machines that need Antivirus but do not connect to the domain. These could be lab machines, dedicated PC’s that run manufacturing...
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SOLVED: How to Manually Disable System Center Endpoint Protection
From time to time, to accommodate an install or perform troubleshooting, we all need to temporarily shut down the Antivirus we are running. Disabling System Center Endpoint Protection however is not a...
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SOLVED: Lexmark – A scan profile with the same name already exists on the...
If you are using a Lexmark device and see “”A scan profile with the same name already exists on the specified MFP. Choose a different name or try again later.” from your PC then you have a mildly messy...
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Joke: The Blonde and the Business
After months a work, a blonde finds herself in serious trouble. Her business has gone bust and she’s in dire financial straits. She’s desperate so she decides to ask God for help. She begins to pray…...
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SOLVED: Cisco LED Colour Codes on Access Points
If you have a modern wireless Cisco Access Point like a 2702 or an 1130, you will likely want (or need) to know what the LED status light is trying to tell you. Below are the what the LED codes mean....
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SOLVED: What is the difference between an APPLICATION and a PACKAGE in SCCM?
In System Center 2007 and older deploying software was handled through PACKAGES and as such a category named PACKAGES in SCCM > SOFTWARE LIBRARY > OVERVIEW still exists for backwards...
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SOLVED: How to Deploy Software Using System Center Configuration Manager
Below is a the quick version of how to push software packages based on MSI’s, including any Transforms (.MST’s) using System Center Configuration Manager Before we get started I you should understand...
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SOLVED: Lync / Skype For Business Record Functions Are Missing
If you are using Lync / Skype For Business, and can not find the recording buttons to record your meetings, it is likely because you are not licensed for it. Lync / Skype For Business requires an...
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SOLVED: How to Set Timing of ‘Machine Policy Retrieval & Evaluation Cycle’
If you have ever worked with System Center Configuration Manager to manage PC’s, you will know that changes do not take place quickly, and that can be frustrating. To have your PC’s take instruction...
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SOLVED: How to Determine What Time Server Your Domain Controller Is Using
If you want to know what your domain controllers Time Server configuration is you can run two simple command line query’s Open a CMD prompt type net time /querysntp, or type w32tm /query /status Below...
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SOLVED: SQL Database Hung on RESTORING
If you have a SQL database stuck on RESTORING (see screen shot) the answer is likely to run a RESTORE command against the MASTER database. In my case I had been restoring one database over another...
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SOLVED: Windows 10 Start Menu and Modern Apps Do Not Function
It was a dark and stormy nighty in April when I installed Windows 10 build 10041 (on the fast ring) and the START button stopped working… ok enough fun. If you have installed a recent Windows 10 build...
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SOLVED: Folders and Invalid Files Can’t Be Dragged To Upload on OneDrive
If you have ever used OneDrive or OneDrive for Business, you most likely have tried to move a folder in and been promoted with “Folders and Invalid Files Can’t Be Dragged To Upload” which just makes no...
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