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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.


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



Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Jet Reports Jet Service Tier Error

 Jet Service Tier Error

The SSL certificate could not be validated. The following error was received.

Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel with authority 'host.example.com:7090'.


I tried using the Jet Services Administration Shell, this ran and immediately closed the PowerShell window, I found the script was missing that the shortcut calls.


  1. I checked for a binding using netsh: netsh http show sslcert
  2. I removed the binding: netsh http delete sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:7090
  3. I added the new binding using the appid from step one: netsh http add sslcert ipport=0.0.0.0:7090 certhash=my-cert-hash appid={appid from step 1}

I was then able to open Jet Administration Console and connect.

Thursday, 1 May 2025

Turn off that annoying form filling pop-up in Edge

 Go to edge://wallet/settings

Scroll to the bottom of the page and turn off Save and fill basic info

This will not affect login boxes.



Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Turn off "Sign in to example.com with google.com"


It's so annoying, here's how to turn it off.


Go here in your Chrome settings: chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi?search=Sites+can+show+sign-in+prompts+from+identity+services

Select 'Block sign-in prompts from identity services'.




Tuesday, 4 March 2025

RDS user gets 'User profile service failed the sign in, user profile cannot be loaded'

When an RDS user gets 'User profile service failed the sign in, user profile cannot be loaded', check the following.

Does the user have a stuck RDS session?

Is the User Profile Disk open on the file server?

If the user is not logged in and UPD is not open on the file server, is there a profile folder attached on a RDSH? It may show with a shortcut icon, delete it. The user should now be able to log in.