Monday, 7 September 2026

Windows Fingerprint and PIN login stopped working after updates

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 Locate Windows Biometric Service, right-click it, and select Stop. Open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\System32\WinBioDatabase.de...
Saturday, 4 July 2026

Manually Update Nextcloud AIO Running In Docker

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Log in to your Nexcloud as Admin. Go to the profile menu (top-right). Click Administration Settings. You should land in the Overview section...
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Printer driver requires admin, you are logged in as a user

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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,PrintUIEn...
Thursday, 19 March 2026

365 Online Archive Not Archiving

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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 man...
Monday, 23 February 2026

Publish Control Panel Email Settings in RDS

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 You need to publish the following: c:\Windows\SysWOW64\control.exe mlcfg32.cpl To do this in the Publish Applications wizard browse to Cont...
Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Tapo app keeps saying, You have viewed the live video for 5 minutes without any operation. Continue the viewing?

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If you are getting the popup "You have viewed the live video for 5 minutes without any operation. Continue the viewing?" in the Ta...
Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Set Windows user not to expire via CMD

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 To set a local Windows user password not to expire use the following. wmic UserAccount where Name='username' set PasswordExpires=Fa...
Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Produce a last logon report on Active Directory

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The following PowerShell command will produce a csv file with username, last login date and time, and 'user enabled' columns.  Get-L...
Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Install Hyper-V PowerShell module without Hyper-V role

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In an elevated PowerShell prompt. Install-WindowsFeature rsat-hyper-v-tools
Thursday, 7 August 2025

Find an Outlook folder using PowerShell

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Connect-ExchangeOnline -ShowProgress $true Enter your login details. Get-MailboxFolderstatistics -Identity username@example.com | Where {$_...
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'

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  Outlook 2016 on RDS 2019 Gives Error 'Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. The set of folders cannot be opened' On the problem computer...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Reverse block of Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11

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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_LOC...