The most annoying feature of Windows 10, the automatic reboots after a Windows Update. You are in the middle of your work and that popup comes up again, “You should really install updates right now”. Eventually, you can’t postpone it anymore and Windows will just reboot. Your tried creating a GPO, disabled the update services even considered … Read moreHow to Stop Automatic Restart Win 10 after installing Updates
If you look around on Reddit /r/SysAdmin or on Spiceworks you will see this question a lot: “What is the best Network Monitoring Tool?” There are literally dozens of questions and polls on Reddit and Spiceworks with this question, and every time PRTG is the most used or recommended network monitoring tool for both Windows and Linux. The … Read morePRTG Network Monitoring Review: #1 Recommend Tool on Reddit and Spiceworks (2019)
Are you going to be ahead of the problems or running behind it? Network monitoring, every IT Department should have it. Without a monitoring tool, you get a reactive IT department. If people can’t save their files anymore you are already too late. And what about disk swapping because you are running low on memory? These … Read moreThe Best Free Network Monitoring Tools for your Network
Microsoft Teams is going to replace Skype for Business Online. The coming months more features will be added to Microsoft Teams to fully replace Skype for Business Online. But now it’s generally available in Office 365 it might be a good time to start taking a look a the Microsoft Teams client and how to … Read moreDeploying Microsoft Teams Client
I was handed a workstation where the screen didn’t turn on any more. The workstation was equipped with a Nvidia Quadro GPU that only has Display Ports. So first I tried the most obvious things, like upgrading the Nvidia drivers, removing the drivers completely and installed an older version. But still the monitors didn’t turn on, … Read moreFixing No Signal when connecting your DisplayPort in 5 min
Last week my dad called me, he was updating the bios of his Dell Vostro 3500 laptop when he suddenly got a warning that the battery was running low. He had the AC plugged in, but still, the laptop just fell out, and the bios update wasn’t finished yet. So he gave me a call if I … Read moreBios Recovery Dell Vostro 3500 / 3700 after update failed
As an IT Admin I get a lot of questions from people’s asking how to setup their home network. What is the best home network router? How do I optimize my wireless network? Which network switch should I buy? And I completely understand, these days there are some many products and the technology keeps improving … Read moreBest Home Network Setup
One of the most common tasks as an administrator is to find, change or add an email address to a user mailbox. PowerShell makes this tasks a lot easier, you can easily find the users where the e-mail address belongs to and add or remove an alias. In this article I will show you some … Read moreManaging email addresses with PowerShell
So you want enterprise-class wifi at home, but don’t want to use a controller? Normally you install a Ubiquiti Unifi Access Points with a controller. This way you can easily manage multiple access points and keep them all in sync and up-to-date. But what if you don’t want to keep a pc running 24/7/? Do … Read moreSetup Unifi ap without Controller
I have some smart products at home and one of the things I wanted to do is read out the connected WiFi devices. To do this I need to Unifi Controller to be running 24/7, so I needed a device to run the Unifi Controller on, something small, cheap and with low running costs. That’s … Read moreInstalling Unifi Controller on a Raspberry Pi in 5 min
