I recently got a at home and was so impressed with it, when I needed a new one for work, I asked for the same model (though a lower spec). When it arrived, everything was as expected except for one thing: there were no wifi networks visible. When I dug in, it became apparent this is because there were no functioning n ...
As we all know, one of the biggest threats/risks to an organisations security are its users – every presentation you see has the ‘surprising’ statistic of just how many breaches start with – or are entirely caused by – actions by a user. Building on this, one of the most common causes of a ...
When I deploy OneDrive for Business on Windows 10 PCs, for some reason I’ve never understood, Windows 10 continues to show a OneDrive – Personal folder in Windows Explorer even though I don’t have one setup, for example: This is confusing and a little annoying, taking up valuable space in the left Qui ...
I recently purchased two new with distinctly different base systems (one is an and the other an ) yet I’ve been seeing some odd behavior from both whereby the mouse cursor freezes or disappears and the system becomes unresponsive for a moment. I saw lots of posts around changing registry permissions but this did ...
So you want to disable AutoSave on your Office applications huh? Yep I don’t blame you, while I love the version control that comes from using SharePoint, OneDrive and the Office 365 platform, AutoSave drives me absolutely crazy and to my mind is a poor implementation of what could be great. Opening files to read ...
With more and more people working from home, we find ourselves in on Teams conference calls in some strange settings (I work in my loft!) which can be distracting to say the least. Earlier in the year Microsoft helped mitigate this while adding an element of fund to Teams calls with the introduction of background effec ...
UPDATE: June 2020 Please note that if you can paste in to the search bar using the shortcut CTRL + V and not right click, the chances are you are simply on the newer version of Outlook and at present this is expected behavior from Microsoft. The fix below was written for a different issue where some users could not pa ...
As part of home improvements I was on the lookout for a video doorbell to use on the outside gates of my home, I had a few pre-requisites: It needed to be powered by POE, no batteries to replace It should be weatherproof and tough I didn’t want to have to pay a monthly subscription to use it (a la Ring doorbells) ...
As part of my ongoing project to retrofit our old stone house with a fast, multi-purpose network, I purchased a for the primary purpose of providing a destination for my IP cameras to record to via the excellent free Surveillance Station add-on. Once I started tinkering without however, I realised how powerful the Syno ...
UPDATE 30 Dec 2019: After visiting family and finding they had the same issue with random characters in the save dialog box, I realised the only common software we had on our systems other than the Windows 10 operating system was Sophos Home Premium. I dug around the settings a little bit and found an option which sol ...
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