Occasionally there’s a reqirement to block Teams from running on a server or PC. Usually, this wouldn’t be an issue because end users shouldn’t have admin rights – but given it installs to AppData then local admin rights isn’t required. Microsoft haven’t provided any useful ADMX templates to stop it from running, so the only option is to block it… Read more →
Category: Windows
Microsoft Teams Fixes
As much as I love Microsoft Teams, it’s certainly caused me a few issues over the years. So I thought I’d collate some of the fixes I’ve gathered over the years. Fully Uninstall Teams BAT file Sometimes Teams just bugs out. Usually with any normal bit of software a reinstall also removes most of the leftover setup – but not… Read more →
RDS Pool Monitoring
Whilst working at Focus we found that some of the service desk were disabling logins to specific servers in an RDS Pool whilst trying to troubleshoot an issue and forgetting to put the servers back in the pool. This was then generating lots of calls/tickets as the other servers eventually overloaded and resulting in even more issues. As a result,… Read more →
Choosing a New Spam Filter
Last month our spam filtering service was due for renewal so I was tasked with choosing a new spam filter. Our previous service we used was SpamTitan made by TitanHQ. This was an excellent service and we had relatively few issues in the 4+ years we ran it. In order to find another solution we had to run through what… Read more →
FBX to C3X resulting in 1KB files
So recently I was asked by a friend to convert a few FBX files to C3X/CoCos format for a game he’s developing. Seemed simple enough but kept resulting in 1KB files! Quickly researching the task seemed simple enough, someone had already written and compiled a windows binary for it: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-x-3rd-party-libs-bin/tree/v3/fbx-conv So downloaded binary, downloaded FBX file, ran with the -a… Read more →
Reject inbound emails sent to a specific domain
Recently we got asked to reject inbound emails sent to a specific domain with a custom response but without touching the mailboxes themselves and leaving the functionality to email out from that domain. Usually this isn’t normally needed, but in this instance they had closed one of their companies and wanted to retain the mailboxes in their current state and… Read more →
Sage 50 Temporary Files
Recently we have come across a few issues with Sage, but perhaps the most annoying of them is it randomly storing Sage 50 temporary files in C:\Microsoft\Temp. These files are named: C:\Temp\Windows\YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS They appear to be remains of a failed or incomplete Sage 50 Automatic Backups, which waste valuable storage and can cause major problems in any enviroment. By… Read more →
Sage 50 Automatic Backups
Using Sage 50 Accounts V21 or V22 and you have more than a few companies? Then Sage 50 automatic backups are a very bad thing… In both Sage 50 Accounts V21 and V22, Sage included an automatic backup, which is on by default. This means that every installation of Sage creates backups of the dataset directly to the C drive… Read more →
Installing VMware vSphere Client on a Domain Controller
Installing VMware vSphere Client on a Domain Controller is actually a very easy thing once you know how. vSphere Client requires Windows XP SP2 or later. vSphere Client cannot be installed on a Domain Controller. “Ugh why can’t I install this stupid thing on a domain controller?” – is a common thing to hear from some of the engineers where… Read more →