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Microsoft announced today that it has started pushing Windows 10 21H2 (the November 2021 update) to users running version 20H2. The company plans to use its machine learning model to automatically target eligible devices that are approaching the end of servicing soon, and this approach should help to ensure a smooth update process. “Windows 10,…

Microsoft has finally decided to stop selling Windows 10 licenses to consumers and enterprise customers by the end of this month. The company has quietly announced on the Windows 10 product pages that it will block digital downloads of the Home and Pro editions of the OS on January 31, 2023. “January 31, 2023 will…

MC296615 – Beginning January 1, 2022, Microsoft will be aligning the OneDrive Desktop application (sync app) support lifecycle with the Windows support lifecycle. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be supported until January 10, 2023. Windows 8 reached end of support on January 12, 2016. If you are not using the OneDrive sync app on any…

In the previous article in this series, I explained that message classifications are not exposed through Outlook by default. In this article I want to show you how you can expose message classifications to Outlook 2007 users. Before I Begin Before I get started, I want to point out that the technique that I am…

On IIS 6.0, how do I configure my website to use SSL? By default, web browsing is being performed by use of the HTTP protocol, i.e. a connection between the client computer (using a web browser) to the web server (using IIS, Apache or any other sort of web server program). HTTP relies on TCP…

This document describes how you can configure an Alcatel SpeedTouch 510 ADSL modem not to use NAT anymore. This process is often called DHCP SPOOFING. The public IP will be sent to your machine by DHCP therefore eliminating NAT. It is also for setups where combination of an Ethernet gateway routers which do not have…

Microsoft has launched a new software updates dashboard in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new software updates page enables IT admins to get a unified overview of the installation status of Windows and Microsoft 365 app updates in their organization. “Keeping devices current with the latest security updates is an important part of an…

Remotely accessing your servers and workstations through terminal services or RDP is an easy method of doing your job from a remote location, or gaining access to specific published applications that have been published on your servers. However, without properly investing in securing these types of RDP connections, you could be compromising the security and…

Error message 401.3 when setting up RPC over HTTP/S on Exchange 2003, after installing SP1 for Windows Server 2003 RPC over HTTP/S is a cool method for connecting your Outlook 2003 client to the corporate Exchange Server 2003 from the Internet or WAN, without the need to establish a VPN session to the corporate LAN…

With 2019 right around the corner, Aidan makes a few predictions about what we will see in the year ahead.