SOLVED: WSUS Server Will Not Launch After August Patch Cycle Including KB3159706
To allow WSUS (and presumably SCCM) to support Windows 10 Anniversary, Microsoft released a patch last month which blew up a number of WSUS servers. They have now released KB3159706 which is supposed...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Check The Build Number of Windows 10
If you have Windows 10 you likely already know that Microsoft is releasing new builds of Windows several times per year and it can get confusing which version you have. You would think that the build...
View ArticleSOLVED: Complete Windows 10 Naming Convention Explained
There are many different parts to a Windows name and we will explain them all here: Product example: Windows 10 Marketing name Edition example: Windows 10 Pro Home, Pro, IoT, Embedded, Enterprise and...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Add Closed Captions and Translate Those Captions To Any...
YouTube will translate nearly any language audio to nearly any language text, for free! If you are watching a foreign language video on YouTube and want to have closed captions translated into another...
View ArticleSOLVED: Video: How To Change Outlook Attachments From Linking to SharePoint...
If you are attaching files from your Office365 Onedrive Sharepoint cloud storage using Outlook 2016 you will find that it provides a lovely drop down showing you your recently edited files. If you...
View ArticleSOLVED: Video: How To Hard Reset or Remove Cortana In Windows 10
If, like me, your Windows 10 Cortana is non-responsive (or you just don’t want Cortana) we will show you how to remove and re-add Cortana which will perform a hard reset on it. Cortana is hard baked...
View ArticleSOLVED: Video: How To Hard Reset Microsoft Edge Browser In Windows 10 (or...
If your Edge browser has be hijacked or has some other serious problem in Edge in Windows 10 we will show you how to remove and re-add Microsoft Edge which will perform a hard reset on it. This is the...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Get Windows 10 Into SAFE MODE Without Login In
There are three ways to get Windows 10 into TROUBLSHOOTING / SAFE MODE without logging in: At the login screen click the round power button at the bottom right corner of the screen, press and HOLD the...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Enable BLOCK AT FIRST SITE in Windows Defender SCEP Using SCCM...
If you have deployed Windows 10 Anniversary 1607 and are using Windows Defender you should be very interested in the new BLOCK ON FIRST SIGHT feature. When a user runs a program that Defender has...
View ArticleSOLVED: Video: How to Separate Numbers From Letters In an Excel Text String
If you have a column of data that contains numbers and letters together and you need to separate them, it is easy to do using the traditional functions like RIGHT() and LEFT() as long as there is a...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Filter or Select or Remove Rows in An Excel Table Based on A...
If you have an Excel table with a number of ROWS you want to have selected and removed based on the contents of a cell, you can use the SORT & FILTER editor. It is very easy to use. Simply click...
View ArticleSOLVED: What is the N Icon block at the Top of My Samsung Android Phone
If you have an ‘N’ block at the top of your Samsung Android cell phone, then you have NEAR FIELD COMMUNICATION (alternately known as NFC) turned on. NFC does exactly what it says; it communicates to...
View ArticleSOLVED: How Many Websites Are There In The World? The Answer Will Surprise You
The simplified answer to the question of ‘how many websites are there?’ is 1.1 billion sites with about 4.5 billion total pages in 2016. However, it is critically important to note that between 60%...
View ArticleVideo: SOLVED: How to Use File Server Resource Manager in Windows Server To...
This video demonstrates how to configure Windows Server File Server Resource Manager to block Crypto malware like Cryptolocker / Cryptowall and other ransomware. FSRM is built into Windows Server and...
View ArticleVideo: SOLVED: How to use the Right To Left Override Character to Obfuscate...
This short video shows how to use the Right To Left Override (RTL) hack to make a file extension seem like something else, using nothing more than the Windows Character Map. Right To Left Override is...
View ArticleSOLVED: How To Determine The Source Of Your Windows Updates on Windows 10
If you have Windows 10 clients on a WSUS server and you want to confirm that they are receiving patches from that WSUS server and not going directly to Microsoft to update, you used to just read the...
View ArticleVideo: SOLVED: How To Use Negative Search Terms In Outlook
If you want to filter out some results from a search in Outlook, you can use a ‘negative search term’. It Outlook that negative term is NOT. It has to be in capital letters. That is the ‘gotcha’...
View ArticleVideo: SOLVED: How To Check / Release Office365 Quarantine Email Messages
If you have ever not received an email that you know was sent but did not bounce back to the sender, it might be that the backend server has marked it for deletion and put in the Quarentine....
View Article4 More Magazines Stop Printing and 3 Others Reduce Print Cyle
The Canadian Press reported today that many of Canada’s staple magazines are stopping print production completely and others are reducing the number of issues. Rogers Communications announced Friday an...
View ArticleSOLVED: How Disable CONVERSATION VIEW in Office365 Webmail OWA and Outlook 2016
Conversation View was a pretty neat idea that I thought I would really like when it was released in 2013. The idea of bringing all of the replies into a single thread in Outlook sounded great. In...
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