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Exchange 2007- 2013 Migration - Slow loading of emails/secondary mailbox's

Installing FrontMotion Firefox With Group Policy modifications & Custom Install Files

This is my code used in a SCCM/Windows enviroment To remove any installed version of Chrome and Also remove Profile Data in Roaming Profiles.

A Simple fix to Unknown Device Messages on Promethean board devices when using USB 3.0 and a New Intel Series Host controller

I hate this software with passion ! , but as its used by most people its best if its made to work properly . The main problem i found when deploying the Enterprise MSI was that it always managed to stick to the taskbar when a user ran it ( a real problem for roaming profiles )

The following guide will explain how to run java applications locally ( i.e. From a from a web developers machine ) , using the Java.policy file.

A Quick Fix for a problem that is plaguing quite a lot of people at the moment . This can normally occur during a IE Upgrade or just a corrupt user profile. The following will help a user open the Tools > View Download prompt and also allow a user to click on Save , Save As and Cancel when downloading a file .

A Quick Guide to avoid the dreaded explorer.exe " Unspecified Error " popping up after you use Group Policy to Prevent access to The control panel / Personalization for a OU .

The following guide will tell you howto configure a starup bat to disable shared drives which are shared as default by windows 7

An easy guide on howto activate multiple OEM licenses using a Slic certificate and a computer containing a Slic Bios. This can be done using any OS Medium and not specific to the Manufacturers installation disk.

Just a guide on how to install Windows XP on a Fujitsu Q520 that uses Intel series 8 AHCI drivers .This post includes a download link for a Modified version of XP SP3.

The pain of Custom Java deployment ! Heres a quick and easy guide so you can have ( Dsiabled Updates , Start menu removed , Medium Security set)

A Quick Guide on how to Setup Radius for Multiple SSID's Using multiple network policy and active directory groups . This has been done on a AeroHive AP .

Our new wireless system is as Follows

GuestSSID

StafSSID

AdminSSID

For some bizzare a strange reason when installing certain software after a fresh sccm image install the drivers seem to go corrupt on some of our DVDRW drives . The following is a quick fix to get them backup and running from MS .

When installing moodle and authenticating with LDAP we had a problem with teachers who logged in it would display there full name ( first + last name from active directory ) .This guide is to allow an administrator set the LDAP authentication when setting up new users to use there active directory display name instead of there first + last name when authenticating.

The following script resets the permissions of a profile or My documents folder to some custom groups and the Folder owner.

The following script can be run as a start-up or shutdown script . It can use wildcard characters to specify a specific username range , For e.g. if all year 7 students accounts begin with 07 you can specify the script to only delete these.

Apart from the traditional server backups its always a good idea to have a good easy upto date backup of a CMS system such as Sims.net . I created the following script to allow us to have a daily backup of the main directory's and the SQL database in hand as part of the disaster recovery plan .

The following task is to copy/export a users mailbox into PST format , for some bizarre reason you are required to use a 32bit x86 operating system . You will also need to exchange management tools installed as this task requires the Exchange Shell .