This landed in my Inbox last week. It’s a phishing scam, designed to capture your real login details and is definitely not from Microsoft. It’s good practice to log straight into the website or Cloud service in your web browser to check the validity of any warnings like these. Don’t click on links in your emails! From: Microsoft…
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How to get the ATO Business Portal to work on Windows 10
The ATO Business Portal is vital to Australian businesses. This secure gateway allows us to provide reporting information to the tax office, to meet our compliance regulations. It’s understandable that if you do any of those kind of tasks (either for your own business or someone elses), you need to know that the website and…
How to become known within your Industry: Show Up. Contribute. Share.
People have started asking me how I have made so many connections with other people in IT, especially overseas. When I examined it, it turns out it’s just a by-product of how I engage with other people and get connected into groups of peers and ‘hero’ speakers/writers. It’s nothing I specifically set out to achieve.…
What you need to do before AND after upgrading to Windows 10
Microsoft has announced that a free upgrade to Windows 10 will be available on the 29th of July for eligible systems. This can be applied anytime over the next 12 months and your computer will be presented with a system tray icon and popup showing you how. Note: Eligible computers are those already running Windows 7 or…
HP all in one fails sound driver & webcam driver installation on Windows 8.1
Nothing taunts a systems administrator like a yellow exclamation triangle in device manager. After an HP all in one computer had been worked on to remedy another issue, the only problem that remained was no sound & no webcam. And that stupid little yellow symbol. This appeared after Windows Updates had automatically updated the operating system…
Can’t create a static gateway VPN on a Microsoft Azure virtual network
Ah the joys of a proof of concept. We’re playing with a vendor’s application that has some tricky networking requirements (multi-site VPN support through a third party aggregator) to see if the architecture would work with a server in Azure. The great part is we have a trial version of the software, so we can replicate…