- Log in to your Nexcloud as Admin.
- Go to the profile menu (top-right).
- Click Administration Settings.
- You should land in the Overview section.
- Click Open Nextcloud AIO Interface.
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All that IT stuff you normally forget as you go along and spend ages trying to remember...
Saturday, 4 July 2026
Manually Update Nextcloud AIO Running In Docker
Thursday, 11 June 2026
Printer driver requires admin, you are logged in as a user
Launching add printer as an admin in Windows 11 is a pain.
Save the following in a bat file and run as admin.
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il
Thursday, 19 March 2026
365 Online Archive Not Archiving
You've enabled Online Archiving for a 365 user and a few days go by and the user complains of a lack of space. This can be solved by manually starting the archiving process in PowerShell, this process is normally on a weekly schedule.
In PowerShell run: Connect-ExchangeOnline
Once logged in run: Start-ManagedFolderAssistant -Identity "user@domain.com"
If you don't have the Connect-ExchangeOnline command run the following in admin PowerShell. I usually have this in a connection script so the module stays up to date.
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Update-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement
Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement; Get-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement
Connect-ExchangeOnline -ShowProgress $true
Monday, 23 February 2026
Publish Control Panel Email Settings in RDS
You need to publish the following: c:\Windows\SysWOW64\control.exe mlcfg32.cpl
To do this in the Publish Applications wizard browse to Control.exe at the location shown above, and publish that, then go back in to the published app settings and modify;
- General: Rename it to Email Settings.
- Parameters: Select 'Always use the following command-line parameters' and enter this in the box: mlcfg32.cpl
Click OK and refresh RDWeb, you will see the new RemoteApp.
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Tapo app keeps saying, You have viewed the live video for 5 minutes without any operation. Continue the viewing?
If you are getting the popup "You have viewed the live video for 5 minutes without any operation. Continue the viewing?" in the Tapo app you need to change some settings.
In the settings for the app.
Turn on "Allow background usage", "Allow background data usage", Some versions of android have a setting for battery usage set this to "Unrestricted" for the Tapo app.
Different versions of Android call this different things, but the app being restricted is what causes the problem so just have a look through the settings in the "App info" option..
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Set Windows user not to expire via CMD
To set a local Windows user password not to expire use the following.
wmic UserAccount where Name='username' set PasswordExpires=False
Tuesday, 27 January 2026
Produce a last logon report on Active Directory
The following PowerShell command will produce a csv file with username, last login date and time, and 'user enabled' columns.
Get-LocalUser | Select-Object Name, LastLogon, Enabled | Export-Csv -Path "C:\path\to\your\LastLogonReport.csv" -NoTypeInformation
Tuesday, 16 December 2025
Install Hyper-V PowerShell module without Hyper-V role
In an elevated PowerShell prompt.
Install-WindowsFeature rsat-hyper-v-tools
Thursday, 7 August 2025
Find an Outlook folder using PowerShell
Connect-ExchangeOnline -ShowProgress $true
Enter your login details.
Get-MailboxFolderstatistics -Identity username@example.com | Where {$_.Name -Match "Missing Folder Name"}
The output will show the folder path!
Close the session with: Disconnect-ExchangeOnline
Friday, 18 July 2025
Possible fix (works but for how long) Outlook 2016 on RDS 2019 Gives Error 'Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. The set of folders cannot be opened'
Outlook 2016 on RDS 2019 Gives Error 'Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. The set of folders cannot be opened'
On the problem computer, create the registry key for the affected user: Computer\HKEY_USERS\USERSID\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover
Name: ExcludeScpLookup
Type: REG_DWORD
Data:1
Rename the Outlook Folder c:\users%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
Delete profile keys from Computer\HKEY_USERS\USERSID\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Profiles
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Reverse block of Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11
On a PC that has been blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 you will see registry keys as below with similar values within: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate
To unblock the upgrade, you need to delete TargetReleaseVersion, leave ProductVersion as it is.
Untested: I don't think the TargetReleaseVersionInfo value matters once TargetReleaseVersion is disabled.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Adding SQL Permissions to Certificates in Windows
Faced with these certificate permissions how do you add the last two?
The correct syntax is to add each of these.
NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER
NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT