With its huge dominance in the workplace, Microsoft’s Windows has become the prime target for cyber criminals. They’re looking to access your information, disrupt your business, or hold your data to ransom. Tens of millions of attempted malware attacks were discovered throughout this year, and a massive 95% of those threats were targeted at Windows. The vast majority of attacks are unsuccessful, but those that do succeed...
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Your business’s Windows updates might be failing because of this one simple thing… If you’re the kind of person who installs security updates on all of your devices as soon as they become available, don’t start polishing your halo just yet. Because Microsoft’s just released a piece of information that might explain why your Windows machine is STILL out-of-date… despite all your care. Updates are crucial for all...
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Introduction Microsoft Azure is one of the greatest recent innovations by Microsoft. Its ability to enhance collaboration has without a doubt contributed to increasing productivity for countless organisations and businesses. If you have read our blog post or watched our YouTube video on ‘keeping your business and yourself safe’. You will also know how imperative Microsoft Azure is in allowing hybrid working, particularly in making ‘Bring...
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The first question when a new operating system is coming into the market is: Shall I upgrade or shall I wait? And probably the next question you will ask yourself is: Is it safe? Well, let’s not get worried now as the best Windows yet is here. There are at least 10 reasons for upgrading however I will give you the top five reasons and even...
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The quick version: Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session New-Mailbox -Name "John Contoso" -RemovedMailbox "John Contoso" -MicrosoftOnlineServicesID [email protected] -Password (ConvertTo-SecureString -String 'NewPassword' -AsPlainText -Force) The long version: From time to time mistakes happen and, at least with Microsoft technology, there are ways to recover an Office 365 Mailbox and recovering data that has been deleted. Now, usually with Office...
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Counting down to Windows 10 first year anniversary and with it comes the end of the free upgrade which finishes this month, exactly in two weeks’ time on the 29th July. This is the last day to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. After that date, home and business users will need to pay. Let’s not leave it to the last minute and look at the...
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Today we will be talking about recovering deleted emails and item using PowerShell. Occasionally accidents happen and important emails or things like calendar events get deleted. If you are unlucky you won't be able to recover the deleted items the easy way over Microsoft Exchange server and will have to use PowerShell. Below are the steps to take to do this Make Sure you are a...
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With Microsoft’s new Operating System, Windows 8, preview out I decided to have a go at creating an app for it. The app I made was a simple "Hello World" app in which you type your name into an input box and when you press enter the app says hello to you. To do this you need to have Windows 8 preview and Microsoft Studio...
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Today we will be talking about how to fix the windows error code 0x8024400A. Now this blog post actually ties into my last post (How to Factory Reset Your Laptop) because after I had factory reset my laptop, I had to update Windows XP. However, when I tried to update my laptop I got this wonderful error code: 0x8024400A. What followed was a series of Google search’s...
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