Category Archives: Microsoft
Windows 10 – Print to PDF
Windows 10 has a feature to allow you to print directly to a new PDF document which will allow you to distribute electronically or file electronically in your system. However, we have learnt that this feature may not have been activated on some PC's or Laptops.
This article will show you how to activate the feature and use the feature from any Windows software that allows you to print.
MS SQL – MSDB stuck in single user mode
Quick TSQL script to switch from single user mode to multi user mode
Install LibreOffice on Windows 10
Install steps for LibreOffice on Windows 10
Windows 10 – Remove Orphaned Start Menu Item
Users have reported that there is an entry in start menu in windows 10 named ms-resource:AppName/Text. This entry references Microsoft.Windows.HolographicFirstRun application. Here is a complete solution to get rid of this entry from start menu.
Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
For years now we have enjoyed Microsoft Office as the go to suite of applications for all our documentation, presentation and email needs, Microsoft did a great job in addressing those requirements for business, home and student users.
Over recent years Microsoft has been aggressively trying to convert the all three users types to Office 365 subscriptions which may suit only a subset of those users and raises the cost of these applications for some that simply can't keep adding costs when previously they simply paid a one time fee or they simply don't choose the cloud for daily use applications.
Buying Microsoft Office outright is becoming difficult to obtain this installable one time fee version and we expect this to not longer be an option in the near future.
Windows 7 – 10 Offline files fail to sync
Offline Files and Folder Redirection causes sync issues Often Windows has problems that are just difficult to diagnose and resolve and for resent Windows versions there are fewer public knowledge base articles to help. In this post we had an issue where offline files started to cause sync to fail. As it turned out the client computer (Windows 10) was trying to sync files of a User than no longer existed on the domain. Rather than consume our time on trying to diagnose and do Read More +
Fix: Windows 10 1903 breaks Windows Server 2016 Essentials Connector
Windows 10 1903 breaks client connector for Windows Server 2016 Essentials - We found a fix!
Windows Forms: Transparent Containers
Making a Windows Forms Container Transparent
Our Server Security Proof of Concept delivers the desired protection
Protecting Windows Servers has been our focus, data protection and blocking know threats.
Windows Server 2019 Essentials – Misses the mark for Small/Medium Business
With the slow demise of great solutions for Small Businesses by Microsoft, the latest and probably the last offering of Windows Server Essentials is a huge disappointment. Such are poor offering triggers businesses to look for non-Microsoft solutions.
