VMware – Setting up ESX NTP Time Sync
Oct14

VMware – Setting up ESX NTP Time Sync

ESX NTP KB ID 0000798 Problem Having your ESX Server running the correct time is quite important, and before you visit this subject, I would suggest you MAKE SURE the time is set in the ESX Servers BIOS, ie the internal clock is set correctly first. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen Windows domains fall over because the ESX host has reverted to its BIOS time and replicated that time to its guests, suddenly your...

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Windows Server – Sysprep
Nov17

Windows Server – Sysprep

KB ID 0000729  Problem I don’t deploy large amounts of servers at once, so Windows Server sysprep is not as important as it is with the client operating systems I deploy. But I do need to create virtual machine templates, (mostly for testing), but some clients like to have server templates. I prefer to manually sysprep and shutdown a server then either convert or clone it to a template. Thankfully sysprep is in the same place as...

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Microsoft Edge (macOS) Migrate Bookmarks from Safari
Jan23

Microsoft Edge (macOS) Migrate Bookmarks from Safari

KB ID 0001641 Problem So now theres a version of Microsoft Edge for macOS! Normally I would not bother, but I spend a lot of time in SharePoint and Azure so I thought, rather than my usual approach of playing ‘Browser Roulette’ I’d try Microsoft Edge and see what it was like. My usual browser of choice is Safari, but the install wizard defaults to wanting to import bookmarks / favourites* from Chrome. (I do also have...

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Microsoft Outlook – Showing Email Headers
Nov17

Microsoft Outlook – Showing Email Headers

KB ID 0000663  Problem There are plenty of reasons for wanting to look at a message header, to see where a mail has come from or from which email address it was sent for example. Different versions of Outlook have different methods of letting you read the email header. Solution Display Message Headers with Outlook 2013 1. Open the mail in question and select ‘file’. 2. Info > Properties. 3. Your message headers are...

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Windows – Stop the Welcome to Internet Explorer from launching via GPO
Oct14

Windows – Stop the Welcome to Internet Explorer from launching via GPO

KB ID 0000459 Problem If your’e logging on as a new user and Internet Explorer has not yet been ran, then it wants to run the “Setup Windows Internet Explorer Wizard”. On just one machine with one user that’s fine, but if you are logging in all over the place, with multiple credentials, this can get quite annoying. Also you might not want your domain users having to do this at all, for security reasons....

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