Google Hangouts
Using Google Hangouts to start a video hangout is free and relatively easy to do. If I can get my technically challenged friends together from three different states to watch a three hour playoff football...
Author: George Almeida
Group policy to add safe senders
Using group policy to add safe senders to Microsoft Outlook junk e-mail options is easy. Of course, it is also very easy to manually add safe senders by right-clicking the email, select Junk and...
Trust Relationship between Workstation and Primary Domain failed
I can pretty much guarantee that if you work in a Windows Active Directory environment, you’ve probably had support calls from your users stating they cannot log into their computers because of the following error message,...
Restore Deleted Objects from Active Directory Recycle Bin
There are a couple of ways to restore deleted objects from Active Directory Recycle Bin. The default age that a deleted object stays in the AD Recycle Bin is 180 days. Therefore, you have...
Create a drop down menu in WordPress
As I was redesigning my blog, I came to a point where I wanted a drop-down menu on the top main navigation menu. I thought it would be really easy but it was a...
Thank you for 2014!
As we conclude our first full year after the relaunch of the GeorgeAlmeida.com blog, we are happy to announce that the traffic to this site has generated a small amount of revenue this past...
Disable Windows Update Notification on Terminal Server
Terminal Server users logging on to terminal server continually receive the Windows Update popup ” Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” every 10 minutes. They’re only option is to select “Postpone” to make...
Visual effects changes not saving in Windows 7
Ran into a weird issue where visual effects changes were not saving in Windows 7 after a reboot. Apparently, if you use the following steps to make changes to the Visual Effects tab in...
WINSXS folder cleanup
Ever since the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft began storing windows updates in a folder named Winsxs. Many of us can remember with XP and Windows Server 2003 when the Windows updates were stored...
Windows Update Never Stops Checking for Updates
Have you ever gone to apply the latest Windows updates to your computer and the Windows Update never stops checking for updates? The little bar just keeps going and going but nothing ever happens?...
SCCM inboxes despoolr
Ever since we installed SCCM 2007, SCCM 2012 and recently SCCM 2012 R2, we’ve been fighting disk space issues on all our SCCM servers. This recently started to become a very big problem because...
SCCM Client Install Error Code 87D00244
SCCM Client Install fails with error code 87D00244 in the ccmsetup.log. The entire error is MSI: Setup was unable to compile Sql CE script file C:\Windows\CCM\CIStateDBUpgrade.sqlce. The error code is 87D00244. For such a...