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Among the first things we usually want to do right after we've installed a brand-new Windows Server is to also install Google Chrome. Doing that won't always be easy, though, because …
Install Google Chrome on Windows Server with a Powershell Script Read More
If you're a System Administrator and you're working with Windows, you surely know what happens everytime you install a new physical or virtualized Windows Server machine: you're basically unable to …
Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security in Windows Server 2012 Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, chances are that you recently downloaded a DDS image file and you don't know how to open it. DDS files represent the raster image format used …
How to open DDS raster image files with Windows 10 Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, it means that you ran into a common issue happening right after installing/upgrading to MediaWiki build 1.26.2 (and above) under a Windows/IIS environment. The problem …
MediaWiki and IIS redirect loop issue: how to fix it Read More In case you installed MediaWiki on IIS, you might want to use pretty URLs instead of ugly ones. To quickly understand what we're talking about, here's an example of pretty …
MediaWiki: how to handle pretty URLs under IIS with web.config and URL Rewrite module Read More
These days a lot of users are installing the recently released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which brings a lot of useful features we already mentioned here. If you stumbled upon this …
How to fix Windows Update Error 0x80004005 in Windows 10 Read More
Starting August 2 2016, Microsoft officially released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update package, which happens to be the most important (and biggest) upgrade of their latest Operating System, period.
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: how to get it Read More
The time has come to update this post regarding Windows Update behaviour in Windows 8 to Windows 10. The system updates performed on regular basis by the Windows Update tool are generally a …
Windows 10 - Disable automatic shutdown after Windows Update Read More
If you are a devoted reader of this blog you'll already know that we're definitely not the Outlook biggest fans you can find. However, we're often called by private and public …
Troubleshoot Microsoft Outlook issues with command-line switches Read More
Let's just say it, I'm not the biggest fan of the Microsoft Outlook/Exchange world out there: frankly speaking, I'm far more inclined to use - and suggest the usage of - open and …
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook window. Read More