OCS Partial KB & SOPs
Revised 2026-01-30 1034

A collection of "standard operating procedures", semi-common fixes and some harder to find fixes.

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• General Information
  Revised 2025-07-18 1448

  • Well-Kown Ports
  • Well-Kown Ports and More

• Fixes
  Revised 2025-07-18 1448

  • Miscelleneous
    Revised 2025-12-22 1628

    • Disable dailyrumour System Pop Ups (McAfee and-or Norton expiration) © 2025
    • iPad E-mail Setup © 2013

  • Outlook (Microsoft)
    Revised 2025-12-22 8502

    • App Bar Move

• Microsoft
  Revised 2026-01-30 1037

  • Automatic Logon on Boot:
    
    • Automatic logon on Boot for Windows 7+
    • Automatic logon on Boot for Windows 10/11
  • IE user data backup, restore, migration
  • Cannot Joiin Microsoft NT Domain - Device is joined to Azure AD
  • Microsoft IDs
  • Bypass Windows 11 Microsoft Account Requirement During Clean Installations
  2026-01-15 Rev C Added Scripts in download section.

  • Miscellandous Downloads
    Revised 2026-01-15 2258

    • Windows Batch Scripts

      • Backup Windows User Profile v. 2026-01-16.1414
        

        May be launched from command line or "GUI". Backs up the standard user profile folders (Documents, Downloads...) and user profile data for most common browsers (currently Chrome, Firefox and Edge). Download Script

  • Software Downloads for Install/Upgrade/Update
    Revised 2025-07-29 1519

    • Operating Systems (OSes)

      • Upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and 8.1.
        Revised 2025-07-18 1448
      • Microsoft Windows 11 downloads: 1) For existing/activated Windows installations or 2) for damaged/corrupt/wiped installations but where the activation/product certificate is available.

      • Validate & Upgrade from Windows 10 Home/Professional to Windows 11 Home/Professional
        Revised 2025-07-29 1519

        1. Confirm posession of mail profile documentation (specifically, if 3rd party exchange mail server and credentials). Only seems to be needed in odd cases were the upgrade aborts and rolls back, possibly wiping the mail profile in the process.
        2. Validate Computer (download, then manually run).
        3. BEFORE attempting to upgrade a given system, be sure to configure the "Power Management" in Windows to "Never" sleep! Failure to do so may result in, for many cases, a hung upgrade (until "woken"), at worst a possible corrupted OS.
           Note: Even if policy is to make the same setting, some Windows 10 installations have been irregularly revert to default Power Management settings during an update. This issue has been observed to "hit or miss" even between computers of the same make & model, purchased at the same time with the same OS version and the same or very similar software installed at that time.
        4. Windows 11 Update Assistant (download, then manually run).
        5. IF, the upgrade aborts and rolls back to Windows 11, documents to possibly fix. Try second option FIRST!
           • Win 11 Upgrade Aborts and Rolls Back to Win 10
        6. Once the installation is complete, note that said installation/upgrade sets the task bar to Microsoft Windows 11 defaults. Any previous configuration will need to be repeated if desired.

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