Yes yes, its been a while. Frankly I forgot I had a blog. I am mainly posting this for my own later self googling, because I keep forgetting things in my old age, but I hope it helps you too! For some time now my company has been providing Azure hosting services, and more and more those servers that are… Read more →
Category: Microsoft
MigrationTransientException – Office 365 Cutover Migration
This is a re-posting of a Erin’s IT blogpost This issue I have been fighting with for a couple of days, thinking that something was actually wrong with the migration. But it turns out its a cosmetic issue with some Office 365 tenants. In the downloaded report you will see: Couldn’t find a request that matches the information provided. Reason: No… Read more →
Windows 10 Insider Build 10547 – Updates Greyed out
If, like me, you are a Windows Insider, and you are running on a domain… you may well hit this issue… The latest version of Windows Pro Insider Preview Build 10547 has made some changes to the update system that will sometime in a future build give users more information on why Windows 10 Updates are not showing. … Read more →
The ex Naked MVP
Over a decade as a Microsoft MVP, and this year I have not been re-awarded. Unfortunately due to business commitments and lack of engagement with Microsoft in 2015 this is the end result. I have to be honest, it was time! I couldn’t keep up any more with the award commitments. Family and Business are just about enough… Read more →
Missing Icons, Green Checks, Onedrive, Onedrive for Business and Dropbox
Heavy title I know… but I am trying to get Google to find this post 🙂 There is a myriad of information on the web about this problem, but nowhere I have found so far shows how to fix it with all of the above installed on your Windows 10 system. The problem is a simple, but stupid one. Essentially,… Read more →
Windows 10 Editions Announced
I get questions about Windows 10 almost daily, so fresh off the Microsoft Blog, here are the Windows 10 Editions announced today. Windows 10 is coming this summer in 190 countries and 111 languages. Today, we are excited to share more details on the Windows 10 Editions. We designed Windows 10 to deliver a more personal computing experience across… Read more →
Office 365 – Sharepoint Icon Weirdness – Sync Button
If you see this kind of craziness when you click the Sync Button in Sharepoint on your Office 365…. It is likely that you upgraded from Wave 14 to Wave 15 (as far as I can tell). What has happened is that your Sharepoint CSS has got screwed up. The fix is actually quite an easy one! Go into site… Read more →
Surface 3
Microsoft announced Surface 3 today, a Full Windows Atom processor based device starting at $499.00. That is pretty impressive, and the early reviews are looking good. From the Verge Read more →
Bring your Surface Pro 3 to Windows 8.1 Enterprise
So, there is a ton of misinformation regarding how to upgrade your Surface Pro Windows 8.1 Pro system to Windows 8.1 Enterprise. This post should put to bed some of that and show you the steps to reinstall (not upgrade) your Surface Pro 3 and get some of those cool features Enterprise edition gives you. In my case, the reason… Read more →
Is your Active Directory Authenticated website broken?
OK, this is old news to some, but it seems that this months Patches from Microsoft broke authentication to websites hosted on your domain…. There is a detailed and lengthy thread on Eric’s blog here, so I wont repeat it. But suffice to say, if you are getting unexplained prompts on your IIS server, the answer actually lies on your… Read more →