With Google Chrome becoming more popular with people in business, there may come a time when you want to deploy a Google Chrome extension to a large amount of users without them individually going to the Chrome Webstore. To do this follow the steps below: Go to the Chrome Webstore and add the extension to […]
Trying to disable all the options and settings within Windows 10 can be a little tedious sometimes as settings and methods to configure these settings can be split across different areas and different management platforms. One of the issues i came across was trying to disable the ‘Nearby Sharing’ feature within the action pane in […]
When deploying applications to users there always comes a time when you need to detect an application is installed whilst in the user context. It becomes abit of an issue when checking files and folders exist in the users profile as by default SCCM runs with administrative privileged and not as the user. I’m sure […]
There’s always a time when you need to set a default font within Outlook. Microsoft have made it really easy to set fonts for the rest of the office products but have seem to have missed Outlook from the list. So to set default fonts in Outlook follow the below: On a clean machine set […]
If your company has decided to take the stance that no archiving is to be allowed, it can be quite a long process to disable all access to the archiving within Outlook 2016. There are a couple of builtin settings to disable automatic archiving but these settings don’t disable the main Archive button along the […]
One of the most annoying features Microsoft has enabled was the Focused Inbox within O365. Although you can configure transport rules to send mail directly into the focused folder it does open a possibility for missing, potentially, important emails. Managing this feature is relatively straight forward but does have its limitations. You can configure Focused […]
We’ve recently migrated to Office 365 and have started to use Skype online as our new IM software. As with everything Microsoft, there allowing less and less configuration option through Group Policy and moving towards Intune and application specific policies through Azure itself. With Skype, Exchange, Security & Compliance and some of the other tools, […]
Downloading a new ISO from Microsoft, your realise that the ISO actually contains multiple versions, for example Windows 10.ISO contains Education, Enterprise, Pro, Education N, Enterprise N and Pro N (N usually meaning the Korean version). I’ve notice two cons for deploying a Multi OS image: Applying updates can take longer as it needs to […]
All be it an very ancient piece of software, some companies are still using Office Communicator 2007. Upon trying to edit a user’s communicator properties, it throw an error regarding validation: Working through troubleshooting it came apparent that the issue was that the user did not have a SIP telephone number within Active Directory. To […]
Lately I’ve been recreating some our group policies. One thing that wasn’t consistent was that some of our client machines were showing different results on the Advanced tab of IE settings. Most of them were fine but the one that seemed to cause the issue was that some of the clients were enabling the following […]