Microsoft breaks Outlook.com for users with two email addresses
Microsoft’s forced migration of users from the old Outlook.com infrastructure based on Hotmail to the new one based on Exchange …
Category Archives: Windows
(Fixed) Remote desktops are tiny on hdpi screens
The Microsoft Surface 4 Pro has a very high dpi screen (hdpi) this results in remote computers having tiny unreadable …
Powershell on Linux
In a previous post I compared Powershell with Bash. With recent announcements that Bash is supported on Windows and Powershell …
Laptops and 2 in 1 for use with a pen
I am doing work in a school and we are developing our mobile device strategy carefully. At present we believe …
[Fixed] Windows 10 roaming profiles break Edge and other packaged applications
I have recently been imaging Microsoft Surface 3 computers for use by staff in a school. All our staff have …
Edge and packaged apps won’t launch in Windows 10
We have a Windows 7 domain and don’t use any packaged applications. These were introduced with Windows 8 and allow …
A WMI filter to target Windows 10 computers
We have a domain with over 900 Windows 7 computers and we are starting to test Windows 10. It is …
How to restore a Surface image
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently published a definitive guide to backing up your home …
How to add a static IP to a Virtualbox on your laptop
I believe that all development should be done on virtual machines because of the ability to backup and restore them …
NPL Time Server
Today my PC clock was wrong by 30 minutes and it would not synchronize with time.windows.com. Eventually I found the …
