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December 8th, 2015

Setup or Restore the Unread Mail Folder in Outlook

Never miss an email again with the Unread Mail folder. The Unread Mail folder is one of Outlook’s many default Search Folders and by far one of the most useful. It creates a single folder within your mailbox that dynamically fetches and displays all unread email within a mailbox in a single centralized location: Whilst this may […]

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September 23rd, 2015

How to Identify a Fake and Malicious email

Unfortunately sometimes there are new viruses or simply new iterations of an existing virus which have the ability to initially bypass anti-virus applications for a finite period of time. In these instances, the only way of prevention is through caution and the effective identification of suspicious items. The most popular way of spreading malicious content […]

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September 4th, 2015

Outlook fails to send Mail after Windows 10 Upgrade

So you’ve just performed the Windows 10 Upgrade and everything’s looking good. The operating system appears to be functioning fine and all your applications and data appear to have migrated over just fine – hallelujah, time to get back to work and enjoy all the productivity benefits Windows 10 has to offer. You open up Outlook to […]

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August 27th, 2015

The New Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer

The Windows Imaging and Configuration Designer (ICD) tool streamlines the customizing and provisioning of a Windows image. You can use Windows ICD to do the following tasks: View all of the configurable settings and policies for a Windows 10 image or provisioning package. Create Windows provisioning answer files. Add third-party drivers, apps, or other assets to […]

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August 24th, 2015

How to configure Email Notification for Windows Server Backup

Windows Server Backup is a reliable, but basic backup utility. It has the capacity to provide you with both file-level restoration, as well as entire bare-metal recovery. Whilst being a simple and effective backup method, particularly in conjunction with other third-party backup software, Windows Server Backup has on obvious shortfall; lack of reporting. Particularly, no […]

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August 10th, 2015

How to Hide a Mail Contact from Exchange address lists

There are certain scenarios where you may not want an external mail contact to be visible in an exchange address list. We’re currently working on a customer’s Exchange environment where they require the ability to conveniently send email to multiple external email addresses, concurrently, whilst still maintaining a certain degree of privacy and control on those external addresses. In this instance, […]

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August 7th, 2015

Windows 10 now available on USB flash drive

Finally Microsoft embraces not-so-recent technological advances and offers Windows 10 on a USB flash drive! Optical drives have progressively diminished throughout the years due to almost all software being readily available via download on the internet, so it’s refreshing to see Microsoft finally “get with the times” and start distributing their flagship OS in a […]

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July 30th, 2015

How to create Windows 10 installation media and upgrade your existing OS or perform clean installation

Following the official Windows 10 rollout via the Free Upgrade program Microsoft have now given end-users the ability to download the Windows 10 RTM installation files for their own deployments through their Software Download site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 If you need to install or reinstall Windows 10, you can use the tools on this page to create your own […]

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