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Introduction Creating a bootable USB drive for VMware ESXi is an essential step for a smooth and efficient installation process. This guide provides a step-by-step guide to create an ESXi bootable USB drive, ensuring that even beginners and seasoned IT professionals can deploy their virtualisation environments with ease. By following these detailed instructions, you’ll not
We all make mistakes, and sometimes making too many changes in your code, between commits can mean that you lose hours of work. However, if you use VS Code (Visual Studio Code), then it has a built-in timeline feature, which offers a robust solution for navigating and recovering files between commits. This functionality is particularly
Whether you’re an experienced developer looking to streamline your workflow or a beginner eager to set up your coding environment, VS Code (Visual Studio Code) boasts a powerful feature that makes it the favourite IDE of many. These extensions, add-ons, or plugins if you prefer, enhance the functionality, improve your productivity, and transform how you
If like me, you’ve noticed Firefox eating all of your memory, I hope this article, sharing my troubleshooting journey, will help you to get better insight into why it is using so much. I started by closing tabs, removing extensions and in fact doing this took my memory from 4.8GB to 6.2GB, and then restarting
If you have an ultrawide screen monitor, and get complaints when you share your screen, this article is for you. I’ve just got my hands on an ultrawidescreen display, and have found within a day that when sharing your screen via Teams, and I presume it’s the same via Zoom, TeamViewer etc, it’s unreadable for
I often get asked how I blur or change my background in Teams, so I thought I’d put together this quick guide. Before you start though, keep in mind that this will not work on older machines where the processor does not support AVX2 (Advanced Vector Extensions 2), so if you don’t see some of
If you’re using the Microsoft Remote Desktop client and see the ‘Too many passwords’ warning, then please consider not saving your passwords, as it’s not considered secure, but if you have to, then this is how to resolve this. Increase the number of remote desktop passwords you can save BEFORE YOU PROCEED, PLEASE NOTE THAT
If you’re reading this, then you already know how useful Microsoft Teams is, and there numerous ways to expand how you use it. One way is with add-on via the in app store, another is adding an email address to a Team channel, and another is using webhooks to post to Teams channels. An example
Whilst creating an application, which works from a central job list, I found myself wanting to perform both a select and update query at the same time. Essentially, marking jobs as collected, at the same time they are collected. This then allows me to run multiple instances of the same app, all picking up their
If you have a large table of data in a SQL server database, and you want to add a new index, but can’t afford to lock the table, then this article will help you. However, please note: This does does actually lock the table still, but only briefly. This will not work with SQL Server
If you run a busy SQL server an experience performance issues, there are several things you can do to diagnose issues. I’ll ignore the obvious ones for now (ensuring your queries are streamlined and using the SQL Profiler) and will provide you with an additional script to run which will give you a view of
If you have a need allow a user to access the mailbox of another user, please first notify the users beforehand or ensure that you have the necessary policies in place to cover you. How to give users access to another users mailbox This guide is focuses around Exchange 2010 (I know, just helping a
If you’ve installed Firefox, logged into your account and the sync isn’t working. There appears to be a bug that stops this from working, but luckily there is any easy fix, just follow the below: Fix Firefox sync issue Open ‘Firefox’. Open the menu by pressing the 3-bar menu. Select privacy from the left menu.
If you are seeing the ‘Microsoft Word experienced an error trying to open the file‘ error, this might be misleading and the cause is likely nothing like what the error message says. In fact, it’s most likely security setting to try and protect you. Please note that this is at your own risk, if you
If you are seeing the ‘Microsoft Excel cannot open or save any more documents because there is not enough available memory or disk space‘ error, this might be misleading and the cause is likely nothing like what the error message says. In fact, it’s most likely security setting to try and protect you. Please note
Sometimes tracking down the exchange mailbox which is linked to a specific email address can be time consuming, but you you make this task easier by using the Exchange Management Shell. To do this, follow the below instructions: 1) Open the Exchange Management Shell 2) Enter the below code, but swap email@domain.com for the email
If you have upgraded to Skype version 5.3 and you are getting the ‘Skype has stopped working’ error message (shown below) it could be easily solved. In previous version of Skype when running on a Windows 7 x64 machine the program didn’t minimise to the sys tray icon, but the way around this was to
To allow a user to be able to send on behalf of a distribution group, simply follow the below: 1) Logon to your Exchange 2007/2010 server 2) Open the ‘Exchange Management Shell’ 3) Type the below in, but change ‘GroupName’ to the name of the group and ‘UserName’ to the name of the user you
If you have installed Exchange 2010 in and Exchange 2007 environment, you may come across the below error: An IIS directory entry couldn’t be created. The error message is Access is denied. HResults = 2147024891 It was running the command ‘Get-OWAVirtualDirectory’ If you do, the solution is very simple, follow the below: 1) Logon to
This article will help you if when installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 you receive a message like below: Exchange 2007 SP2 setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the beremote has open files Basically this is because another service or application is connected to your exchange server, for us it was caused
If you want to purge all your mailboxes in Exchange 2007, simply follow the below: 1) Open ‘Exchange Management Shell’ 2) Add all the disconnected mailboxes into a var by typing the below: $users = Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid,Database 3) Purge all the disconnected mailboxes in the previously
To enable auto hyperlinking of website url’s and email addresses in Outlook 2007, simply follow the below steps: 1) Open ‘Microsoft Outlook 2007’ 2) Select the ‘Tools’ menu and select ‘Options’ 3) Select the ‘Mail Format’ tab 4) Click the ‘Editor Options’ button 5) Select the ‘Proofing’ option on the left 6) Click the ‘AutoCorrect
Users often don’t remember to use https:// when access Outlook Web Access, they simply just use https://. So to automatically redirect them to the same address but with https:// simply follow the below: 1) Logon to your exchange server 2) Open ‘My Computer’ 3) Navigate to: ‘c:\Inetpub\wwwroot’ 4) You should see two files, ‘default.aspx’ and
If when using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to amend a table you encounter a dialog box saying: Saving changes is not permitted. The changes you have made require the following tables to be dropped and re-created. You have either made changes to a table that can’t be re-created or enabled the option prevent saving
If when trying to install something in Internet Explorer with an ActiveX pluging and you get a message saying, ‘Windows has blocked this software because it can’t verify the publisher’, like below: Windows has blocked this software because it can’t verify the publisher Then here’s what to do to allow you to run/install it. Please
If you experiencing problems with emails not delivering to Exchange 2007 Distribution Groups from external sources, but it works internally, then the below is likely to be the cause as it is 9 out of 10 times I’m asked to look at it: 1) Open the ‘Exchange Management Console’ 2) Select ‘Recipient Configuration’, then ‘Distribution
Annoyingly it’s not possible to view mailbox sizes in Exchange 2007 via the Exchange Management Console, so if you need to get them, follow the below: To view them on screen 1) Open ‘Exchange Management Shell’ 2) Type ‘get-mailboxstatistics | fl displayname,totalitemsize’ (without the quotes) As you can see, if you have a lot of
Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access might stop working after installing Rollup 6 which is available via the update service. Other areas affected are that exchange and world wide web publishing services will be set to disabled and therefore not started. When trying to connect to OWA may receive a internet browser script error or
For some reason when you use the Public Folders tool in Exchange 2007 SP1 you can’t change the client permissions for the public folders. So to do so, follow the below steps: 1) Logon to your ‘Exchange 2007’ server. 2) Open the ‘Exchange Management Shell’. 3) Type the below, replaceing ‘public folder name’ with your
If you have installed Microsoft Exchange 2007 Server and are receiving the below error when using Outlook 2007, there is a solution. The message ‘Information you exchange with this site cannot be viewed or changed by others. However, there is a problem with the site’s security certificate.’ indicates that everything is working ok and securely,