How to Disable the Windows 11 Update and Stay on Windows 10

How to Disable the Windows 11 Update and Stay on Windows 10 One of the biggest changes to Windows 10 has been the Windows Update process. Windows updates are now delivered as an UaaS (Update as a Service) platform meaning that updates are rolled out as cumulative updates on a regular basis, and you are […]

How To Quickly Free Up Disk Space on a Terminal Server

How To Quickly Free Up Disk Space on a Terminal Server If you’ve found this article, then you are experiencing the same issue on your terminal server as I have. When you have a terminal server with a lot of users, the downloads folder and recycle bin quickly fill up with unneeded documents as users work […]

How to Properly Configure NTP Time In Your AD Environment: Step by Step

How to Properly Configure NTP Time In Your AD Environment: Step by Step This article will show you step-by-step how to configure your DC with an external time source and to force all your AD clients to sync with your DC. If you’re reading this article then you probably already know that Active Directory can’t […]

How To Set an Office365 Account Password to Never Expire

How To Set an Office365 Account Password to Never Expire By default, the passwords for Office365 accounts are set to expire after 90 days. In some situation that may interfere with other applications that sends email with that account. In order to set them to never expire, the PasswordPolicies setting needs to be changed. You […]

How to Enable Auto Logon In Windows 10 Using The Registry

How to Enable Auto Logon In Windows 10 Using The Registry Usernames and passwords are a great way to protect your information in public workspaces. However, if you’re using your computer in a safe place logging in all the time can get tedious. If you want to cut through all that red tape and get […]

Configuring DDNS on a HikVision NVR

Configuring DDNS on a Hikvision NVR A common request we receive when installing a HikVision NVR for a camera security system is to enable access to the NVR’s web interface from outside of the customer’s network or site. This is convenient for viewing the live video from a remote location as well as looking at […]

Adopting Unifi Devices into your Controller Using SSH

Adopting Unifi Devices into your Controller Using SSH We deploy a lot of Unifi devices for our customers and adopting them into our controller software can be a bit quirky sometimes. The two GUI tools that we are aware of to discover and adopt the devices,  Unifi-Discover (gets installed with the controller software) and Ubiquiti […]

Emptying the Recycle Bin for All User Profiles on a Windows Device

Emptying the Recycle Bin for All User Profiles on a Windows Device Sometimes as a network administrator, you find yourself needing to free up disk space on a machine where there may be multiple active user profiles. One of the common areas that need attention is the recycle bin. A lot of times you find […]

Control Application Bandwidth Usage on your SonicWall TZ Appliance

Control Application Bandwidth Usage on your SonicWall TZ Appliance In this article I will be outlining how you can control the bandwidth usage for certain applications. You may find that when certain applications access data in the cloud, that the application may use excessive amounts of bandwidth. This excessive amount of bandwidth usage can negatively […]

How to Setup SMTP Email Relay in Office 365 Tenant

How to Setup SMTP Email Relay in Office 365 There are certain scenarios where you may want to relay email from a device such as a copier, scanner, PBX or some other network appliance that is running an email client. In this scenario, I suggest sending these emails using a generic relay email account (copier@yourdomain.com […]