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Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Teams

Keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Teams

As Microsoft’s Office 365 grows ever larger and with the planned retirement of Skype for Business looming in July 2021, fueling numbers further, companies are turning to Microsoft Teams for their business communication needs in ever-increasing numbers. What they are finding, however, is an incredibly 

Tutorial: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop Linux Installation

Tutorial: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop Linux Installation

In this tutorial, we cover the step-by-step installation of the freshly released long-term support desktop edition of Ubuntu 20.04 Linux. The installation of other ‘buntu versions will be very similar. We will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so 

Android ranked 2019’s most vulnerable OS

Android ranked 2019’s most vulnerable OS

Google’s Android ended 2019 ranked as the most vulnerable Operating System, highlighting one of the drawbacks of the design of open source ecosystems.  The report by TheBestVPN noted that The National Institute of Standards and Technology discovered 414 vulnerabilities during 2019. Debian Linux came in 

Tutorial: Windows Server 2019 Installation

Tutorial: Windows Server 2019 Installation

In this guide, I will cover the installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2019 using the evaluation version from Microsoft’s Evaluation Centre. I will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so rather than just following the guide, you can understand 

Tutorial: Windows Server 2016 installation

Tutorial: Windows Server 2016 installation

In this guide, I will cover the installation of Microsoft Windows Server 2016 using the evaluation version from Microsoft’s Evaluation Centre. I will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so rather than just following the guide, you can understand 

Tutorial: Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon Installation

Tutorial: Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon Installation

In this tutorial, we cover the step-by-step installation of Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 32-bit version. The installation of other Linux Mint versions including 64-bit will be very similar to this guide. I will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so 

Tutorial: Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Installation

Tutorial: Ubuntu 16.04 Linux Installation

In this step-by-step tutorial, I will cover Ubuntu 16.04 installation Desktop Linux 32-bit edition, starting with the download of Ubuntu’s Desktop installation image. The installation of other ‘buntu versions including 64-bit will be very similar to this guide. I will try to explain certain options and provide 

Tutorial: Windows 10 RTM Installation

Tutorial: Windows 10 RTM Installation

In this step-by-step tutorial, I will cover Microsoft’s Windows 10 installation, using a downloadable installation image. The installation of 32-bit and 64-bit are the same as this guide. I will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so rather than 

Free disk storage by removing the Windows.old folder

Free disk storage by removing the Windows.old folder

Those of you that have taken up Microsoft on their free upgrade offer and recently upgraded to Windows 10 may have noticed a new folder, C:\Windows.old\. This feature, first introduced with Windows Vista, gives users the option to reverse their Windows upgrade and return to the 

Tutorial: openSuSE 12.3 Installation

Tutorial: openSuSE 12.3 Installation

In this step-by-step tutorial we cover openSUSE 12.3 installation using a 32-bit Live Linux KDE desktop image. The installation of the 64-bit version will be the same as this guide. I will try to explain certain options and provide helpful hints along the way, so rather