How are we almost halfway through the year?! Just realised I haven’t written anything since the end of January. This wasn’t intentional! It’s been a particularly manic start to the year and something I learnt long ago is that sometimes you have to stop doing one thing if you want to doing something else. But
Author: Andy Parkes
Andy Parkes is Technical Director at Coventry based IT support company IBIT Solutions. Formerly, coordinator of AMITPRO and Microsoft Partner Area Lead for 2012-2013. He also isn't a fan of describing himself in the third person.
Top 5 Books From 2015
I’ve been asked for book recommendations a few times recently so thought I’d share them here too. I read some really great books last year but here are 5 that really stood out for me. In no particular order… Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture – David Kushner
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2015, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish
We’re a couple of weeks into the new year and as with previous years (2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011) looking back on the previous 12 months is something I really enjoy doing. Especially when you have a memory as terrible as mine! As always spending as much time as possible with these three girls is
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The Martian–Movie
A movie review! Whatever next… One of my favourites books I read last year finally has arrived on the big screen so I was very excited to go see it last night. ** Note this will be a little “spoilery” – the book was released in 2011 though! It would also take a seriously sadistic
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Linx 8 Tablet
I was recently fortunate enough to win a Linx 8 tablet in a competition the Microsoft UK partner team were running. Up until this point my tablet of choice was an original Surface RT. Unfortunately, in recent months I’ve used that tablet more and more just for Office. It’s immensely useful for OneNote and Outlook
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The Difference Engine–Help Needed!
Way back in 2011 I wrote about the Difference Engine. It’s a simple but effective way of adding captions to live performances created by Coventry based Talking Birds. In short, a laptop runs the software and over a local wireless network it allows any device with a web browser to view subtitles. i.e your mobile
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Microsoft Setup Bootstrapper Has Stopped Working
I was trying to install Office 2013 Pro Plus recently and was getting this error message “Microsoft Setup Bootstrapper has stopped working” If you put that error message into your favourite search engine there are a variety of suggested solutions, the most popular ones seemed to be. Use Microsoft Fixit Tools to completely remove Office
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IBIT Solutions–10 Years
This week marks 10 years since IBIT Solutions was first registered as a business. I very rarely use the company name here. It’s usually referred to as “work” or “the business”. That’s mainly because this is my personal blog. While the things I do at IBIT are a big influence on some of the content
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Sonicwall SRA Java Bookmarks Stop Working In Chrome
Another eye catching headline there! We have a couple of clients who use Sonicwall SRA appliances for remote access to internal resources. The bookmarks that were setup to gain access to file shares stopped working. On some PCs we were seeing a blank page. On others it was pretty clear where the problem lay. The
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Adding Roles and Features To an Offline Virtual Machine
A few days ago I restarted a virtual machine and was presented with the message. We couldn’t complete the updates Undoing changes Don’t turn off your computer Very helpful. The server just sat there for ages, apparently doing nothing. After a brief search I came across a post on the Microsoft forums that indicated an
