Category: Windows 8.1
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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 useful to be able to target Group Policies at just Windows 10 devices and to do this we can use a WMI filter. Now we are introducing Windows 10 computers to our domain we need…
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How to fix OneDrive for Business “1 file remaining” issue and other issues
At the moment (June 2015) Microsoft has three sync engines in the market, two are a bit rubbish and they plan to have a single one by Christmas. The good one is the consumer version of OneDrive that can be downloaded and installed into Windows 7. This works brilliantly which in the case of sync engines…
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How to backup data to OneDrive in “real-time”
I am setting up my daughter’s laptop for university. As a student she can purchase Microsoft 365 University edition for a small price for 4 years. This comes with 1 TB cloud storage called OneDrive. This is highly available, redundant storage that should be utilised as much as possible. When planning backup schemes we need…
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Windows 8.1 is Android Kitkat and other thoughts
— Update 2016-01-03 read about my new approach to backup — My daughter is going to university and has just bought a Lenovo laptop which has Windows 8.1 installed. It is a conventional 15.6″ laptop with a i5 processor, 8 GB RAM and 1TB hard disk. First impressions This is my first use of Windows…
Dr James Bayley 