Microsoft Office 2016, released to Volume License customers yesterday, includes the familiar Office Customization Tool. As with previous versions, the tool allows you to customize some Office 2016 settings at the time of install. This might save IT or the users time and helps provide a consistent experience to users. To access the Office Customization Tool, extract your .iso … [Read more...]
Army caps email inboxes to 4GB
The US Army began enforcing size limits on mailboxes with a deadline of today. DoD Enterprise Email (DEE) business accounts are now limited to 4GB by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) while basic users are limited to 512MB. The 512MB quota for basic users went into effect on March 12th while the 4GB quota went into effect today. The size limitations are being … [Read more...]
Windows 8.1 app updates fail through Windows Update
Before yesterday's alarming "test update" came through Windows Update, I encountered another Windows Update issue on Windows 8.1. I was being prompted to install seven updates that would never succeed. Trying them one at a time, each of them failed with error code 80070643 "Windows Update ran into a problem." The seven updates varied in size and description but all were … [Read more...]
Group Policy Management: “The server is unwilling to process the request.”
I was cleaning up old, unused Group Policy Objects recently and came across two that could not be deleted. They were legacy GPOs from before I started at the organization and were not linked anywhere and had old arbitrary settings. Not wanting to just leave junk laying around, I tried to delete the actual objects not just the links from within the Group Policy Objects area in … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases RSAT for Windows 10
Microsoft released the newest version for the Remote Server Administration Tools that allow you to manage Active Directory, Group Policy, and other server-based tools. The version released today supports Windows 10 along with the also just-released Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3. Microsoft also released the final version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update … [Read more...]