Wednesday 22 March 2017

Mothers Day Sticker - Best Mummy (Free large transparent PNG file to download and use)

I hate having to pay for something when I don't really need to. That being said, I wanted to add a little sticker to a picture of my wife and son, however most of the 'sticker' sites like Fotor have them as premium content so you have to pay to get access to them.

Rather than paying, I thought I would just create my own instead. And here it is, free for you to download and use if you so wish!

To all the mums out there, happy mothers day x




Thursday 16 March 2017

Exchange 2010 SP3 upgrade on SBS 2011 - Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the 'console' (Windows SBS Console) process has open files. Close the process and restart Setup.

During an installation of  SP3 for Exchange 2010 on an SBS 2011 server, this error appeared when performing the readiness checks. Having rebooted the server and ensured that the SBS Management console was shut it seemed a little odd.

However, launch task manager I could see that the "console" process was still running even though the window had been closed.

I ended the console task and re-ran the readiness check which then passed. Problem solved.

Thursday 9 March 2017

No verification email when trying to reset office.com or live.com password

We've recently had a few problems with older machines they have required a re-installation. However, the newer versions of office are often tied to a users email address and they can never remember the password, so we end up trying to reset the password to re-download office and activate it.

Some of the spam filters that our clients use have been refusing to let the verification emails through - they're just totally disappearing into the ether.

We added @microsoft.com to the spam filter white-list, but this didn't help.

Turns out, you need to add: @account.microsoft.com as this is the domain that Microsoft send password resets from. 

Hopefully it helps someone out