Azure WordPress
11 April 2020

Build a simple WordPress website on Azure

Introduction WordPress is one of the most popular website content management tools and when hosted on Azure you get an easy to use tool with the scalability and security that comes with Azure. So lets get started Logon to your Azure subscription I like to create my Resource Groups in advance, but you can create this as part of creating resources. So let’s create our […]

Windows 10
5 March 2020

Windows 10 activation code recovery

If you need to reset Windows 10 from Enterprise back to Professional which came with the device, there are just a few simple steps to follow. If your device came with a pre-Windows 10 version, you will not be able to use this to activate Windows 10. Open a Command Prompt (Does not need to be Administrator) Type the following: wmic path SoftwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey […]

Windows 10
12 February 2020

Windows 10 factory reset

There has been several occasions when I wanted to reset Windows 10 back to its out of box state. Either the device wasn’t running well and I just wanted to start again or the device was going to a new owner. There are a couple of ways in which I do this and are built into Windows 10. If you use Bitlocker you will need […]

Azure
11 January 2020

Azure Tenant, Subscriptions and Resource Groups!

An Azure Tenant is an instance of Azure Active Directory. This will typically use your organisation name and be the top level for all your Azure resources. Your tenant must be unique, so if you have a similar name to another business you may not be able to use it. Also bear in mind that if you do some experimenting and then want to start […]