Wifi Autoconnect fails to work after Windows 10 Upgrade
Naturally when windows 10 arrived on the scene i went ahead and upgraded my laptop, i noticed afterwards that it stopped automatically connecting to any of my known wireless networks i thought initially this may be driver related but after installing the latest drivers and checking permissions related to...
Windows Intune Installation Issue
Aidan Finn has a great blogpost that can help some folks remedy installation issues with Windows Intune! Note as per the blog post, after i configured WPAD my connectivity issues had gone away. http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=12073 Note to configure Option 252 on a Microsoft DHCP Server you will need to follow...
Bitlocker Pin and Software Patching
In the last number of years many businesses have started rolling out Full Disk Encryption software throughout their IT Environment’s enabling piece of mind and security to prevent Data Loss / Theft, but this introduced many different issues for IT Administrators in general. Later iterations of Encryption products allowed...
Outlook 2010 & Chrome Uninstall
After uninstalling Google Chrome it seems outlook has decided to have a complex about it, when clicking a link in an email I get the following message: It turns out, it’s a pretty common error after uninstalling chrome http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=4c894d24ab6fac2d&hl=en The fix is relatively easy: 1. Click Start, click Run,...
WMI Filtering between IE6 and IE7/8
Recently, i have had the pleasure of working on some very challenging items across a whole slew of products and operating systems; I came across a particular problem one day in relation to Internet Explorer settings for IE7 and IE8. The problem was around authentication with internal websites, several...
Thoughts on WP7 and HP Web OS
My phone is important to me, its an invaluable work tool when out of the office for tracking email, meetings and requests, it does all my personal stuff as well like Facebook, Email and day to day calls and texts; Its important for me therefore to have a phone...
Automatically post videos to YouTube
Yes, its possible and it works pretty well! I like doing youtube videos but i don’t like sitting for hours waiting for it to upload (this is ireland afterall 35k/sec upload!) so after some thought and research i didnt really find anything Windows Based that i could stick in...
iOS4 + Exchange Issues
From MS Exchange Team Blog: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/07/01/455342.aspx Recently Apple released iOS 4 (the new name for the operating system that runs on iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads). Since its release there have been numerous reports (link, link, link) of a number of issues with new iPhone 4s (and older iPhone...
GPO Search Tool
My colleague Alex Verboon posted up a link to a great tool the other day for GPO. Take a look: http://gps.cloudapp.net/...
Microsoft Online Services
One of my biggest worries about running my fathers business’s Sharepoint (WSS) and Exchange (Packaged with SBS 2003) is the element of Backing up and Expandability. I always fear the day that i would get the dreaded phonecall (you know the one that all Administrators dread) in which email...