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On some Windows machines, the Fall Creators update fails and will roll back the updates.

Snow day question: is your company set up for staff to work from home efficiently?

Have you found that your Google Chrome browser has recently ground to a halt?

Here are five important considerations for any company looking to outsource their IT support.

The new GDPR is coming into effect in May 2018 - not long left to ensure your organisation is compliant.

The most common piece of feedback we receive on our courses is that participants have learnt how to do something quicker or more efficiently.

‘Snap Map’ is the latest feature that the popular social networking platform Snapchat has released and there have been concerns raised about the new update sharing user’s locations unknowingly.

Why Apple's Touch ID might not be as secure as you think and what you can do to make it safer

We were interested to see the launch of the free preview of Microsoft Stream yesterday.

A new Mac can be expensive - but why not upgrade for less

I have had several people in my Microsoft Word training classes asking if there is a good list of word shortcuts.

I have had a number of people in my excel classes recently asking if there is a good list of excel shortcuts.

The cloud. A term used so much with modern technology and yet we so often see it misunderstood by the end user. So what does it actually mean?

PC Pro magazine has reviewed VoIP systems in its latest issue and awarded 3CX a full 5 out of 5 stars and its 'Recommended' badge.

There are some simple things you can do on your network to make it more secure

Straight out of the box the MacBook looks and feels like a thing of beauty.

Over the past week, many users have been reporting that they have lost all internet connectivity and network connection after the latest update for Windows 10 was installed.

Did you know Microsoft has fundamentally changed the way we should all use Word?

Does formatting in Word really burst your bubble?

There are many sneaky threats and scams doing the rounds at the moment. Here's one we just came across.

The Quick Access feature in Windows Explorer is a really useful tool for accessing your recently used files and folders.

Recently we setup a wireless network using Apple Airport Express Basestation units with the requirement that there had to be a separate guest network.

This took a while to find a fix for that actually worked.

One of our clients reported that their computers were presenting an error message warning that mapped drives (in this case it was the N: drive for example) was unavailable (location unavail

When working in AutoCAD it is often needed to convert linetypes. One of the most common is Polylines to Lines. Lines enable editing of small sections in slightly different maner to polylines. 

When selecting and using the line tool in AutoCAD a single line is created. This may contain multiple segments but each segment can individually be edited or deleted as required.

Since Windows released some security updates for Office 2013 in February 2016 we have had several clients complain that Word 2013 32 bit freezes up to the point that it's unusable.

Outlook 2016 sets up correctly (initially) and then loads fine. Then the user closes and reopens Outlook. The problem is that now it loads to the blue Outlook screen saying 'loading profile'.

Many things can cause Outlook to go into a “Not responding” state when it first opens and so identifying the right fix can be tricky.

A client of ours works out of SharePoint 365 every single day and opens all documents in their local Office applications.

Microsoft updates causing Outlook to crash, open in safe mode and lose preferences

UPDATE: Unfortunately this issue has returned after using Outlook for a while, however closing and reopening Outlook seems to fix it again (temporarily).

There are times when you need to find the Id (a Guid) of a list – for example, when using jquery to pull data from a list. Here’s a simple way of doing this:

We have seen a few examples of people struggling to open Word documents that had been initially sent to them as email attachments.

Qdos recently provided iPad training for business users and we needed to display an iPad on a projector for the delegates to follow.  We also wanted to be able to do the whole thing wirelessly so that the trainer could walk around with the iPad that is being displayed. The simplest solution? Reflector 2!

When creating SharePoint workflows one of the biggest problems is enabling the workflow to have enough permission to do all the things it needs.

We encountered a brief issue with Outlook 2011 for Mac which would freeze up and stop receiving email, following the OS X upgrade to El Capitan.

More info here:

“Web Part Error: A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Page cannot be displayed or imported. You don’t have Add and Customize Pages permissions required to perform this action.”

This is an issue that we faced in one of our client sites where in only the people in the specified group or administrators could see the SharePoint people picker control added on the form.

The Bed Post's old website was looking pretty tired, so we slept on it and dreamed up this catchy new design. We hope you'll agree the difference is night and day!

We hit a very annoying issue last week when one of our Office 365 using clients' autodiscover stopped working properly.

The Office update (Tuesday 9th Dec 2014) has broken ActiveX controls on worksheets.

And the winner of this year's most highly sought after business award (not) is..... Mark Wright

If you have similar lists in two different site-collections in SharePoint and want to copy...

When you realise that one of your virtual machines has suddenly disappeared from Hyper-V it can trigger panic...

One of the things I have found the need to do is open the folder that the client has sent to open other files or reference in other files.

If you're getting this error for all network users, but local users aren't affected, read on...

Our resident Apple addict, Dan Jones, shares his thoughts on Apple's latest gadgets that you simply can not live without.

AutoCAD 2014 resolves the issue of layers being ordered alphanumerically rather than numerically.