Moving a micro-business to Office 365
I am presently freelancing again (call me on +447989381331) if you need an experienced Project Manager) and I am tidying …
Category Archives: Windows
Cloning or Restoring a drive also restores bad block list!
When you clone or restore a drive, for example when replacing an HDD with and SSD or doing a restore …
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 …
(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
— Update 2017-12-15 — I think Roaming Profiles are now deprecated. I will be moving all my users to Local …
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 …
