Common Windows 10 config requests – via SCCM or group policy

A list of the more commonly requested modifications to Windows 10 builds that we get.... These are current as of 25/05/2016 - and work with Windows 10 1602 - it is possible they may not in newer versions. Turn off the Windows Store Group Policy: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Store/Turn off the Store application Disable and/or…

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Microsoft Partner technical support

Its fair to say I'm not a fan of Microsoft support. Premier support is anything but premier, and partner's are completely unsupported, in fact, Microsoft products in general fall under "effectively un-contactable" if you don't have premier, and if you do have premier they still fall into "effectively unsupported"... and if it wasn't for community…

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Lumia 930 to 550

Recently, my Lumia 930 got a little crack in the screen.... and it wasn't very long until the little crack became a "whole of screen is shattered" crack.... the touchscreen still worked - but the seeming inability to get the screen replaced without the digitiser (at a cost of around $250) put me off trying…

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KB3124557 sets exchange 2013/2016 services to disabled

A patch for exchange 2013 and 2016 sets all exchange services (and IISAdmin and W3SVC) to disabled after installing https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms16-010.aspx Its not a disaster, just simply set all the services back to automatic, start them, and away you go.... Still, the joke conspiracy from a mate of mine a while back of "The marketing team…

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Strider maps

Strider, a 2014 remake of the Capcom arcade classic, is a game I recently spent some time on, after buying it a while ago - and found it was actually very good. This was very refreshing after some of the crap remakes of late - and good platformers on PC are few and far between…

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DA, force tunnelling and www.msftncsi.com

At a client - 2012 R2 IPHTTPS DA and win 10 1511..... Client wants force tunnelling so all traffic is routed back through the internal network and the web filter etc.... Issue is, www.msftncsi.com cannot be contacted as soon as force tunnelling is enabled. Tried a couple of basic things, such as adding msftncsi.com into…

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