I talked previously about using Chocolatey for home use. It makes building a PC at home nice, simple and fast. It makes supporting non-technical friends and family nice and easy, ensuring you can …
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One of the new features in Windows 10 1803 is the ability for "local Active Directory" Domain joined workstations to allow users to reset their password from the login screen. This was …One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently. This applies at work when building servers …
As I’m sure most of us know by now, SHA1 cryptography hashes have been increasingly under attack, and are now regarded as fully broken. In fact, my use of “now” kinda understates the …
Microsoft’s march towards filling their operating system with adverts continues, with people upset to see adverts for OneDrive popping up in Windows Explorer. 
And lets be honest, we’re …
At work I tend to turn up to meetings with a MacBook Pro. This surprises a few people who know me as a former Microsoft MVP, a Windows Server/Infrastructure person and the manager of a IT system that …
{There was a section here on converting Windows 2016 server eval to full version for enterprise customers, but as Windows 2016 is properly out there now it seems pointless. I've pasted what was here …
Just lately Microsoft seem to be determined to mix up brand names to confuse customers.
For a while now we’ve had OneDrive for Business, the product that is built on the back of totally has …
After our recent Exchange 2013 rollout, we noticed a problem with the Exchange 2013 servers (virtual guests on a HyperV cluster) experiencing clock drift and ultimately bugchecking (aka blue screen) …