Adobe managed to push out more than just updates to Adobe Flash Player, Shockwave Player, and Adobe Acrobat Reader recently. They managed to push out the Group Policy Administrative Templates for Reader DC and Acrobat DC last week. The templates for Group Policy are available for download from the Adobe FTP … [Read more...]
How to create a USB installer for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Creating a bootable USB drive Mac OS X installer can save you time and bandwidth when you have a few Macs you want to update or you want a backup copy of your operating system installer. Fortunately, it's pretty straight forward to create a USB installer for the latest OS X El Capitan, currently in beta, and the process is the same as OS X 10.10 Yosemite. You will have to apply … [Read more...]
How to disable Pocket inside of Firefox
Mozilla Firefox seems to be moving in the direction of bloat these days. First they bundled Firefox Hello with the browser and more recently Pocket, a separate company's software, was included with it. While Firefox recently changed the default search engine to Yahoo, it was understandable as a business decision and not that invasive to the end user. Including Pocket in the … [Read more...]
VirtualBox upgrades to 5.0
Oracle VM VirtualBox has received a major upgrade, moving up to version 5.0. The new release brings a variety of features including USB 3 device support, disk image encryption, and a headless mode to start VMs in a separate process. The new features are a welcome addition to the popular, free VM software. You can see the full list of changes since version 4.3 in the … [Read more...]
Resources to learn Windows 10 for IT Pros
Windows 10 is only 20 days away from general release. If you're feeling any anxiety about those users that ask for the latest and greatest on the day it's released, preparation might help you be able to answer their questions and have a better start on day 1 to deploy Windows 10 to your organization. This article collects resources that can improve your interactions and … [Read more...]