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Over the weekend I helped my friend upgrade his small network of computers to Office 2013. He is one of those people who loves to run the latest and greatest. Unfortunately Microsoft has decided to heavily push the cloud features of Office 2013. This means that every time you launch Word, Excel, etc you get […]
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A few weeks back I wrote an article on how to get your Windows product key with a script. This script has a problem with 64 bit versions of Windows. Why? Because there is a feature in Windows that will redirect registry requests to a 32 bit key…unless you disable it. When the script tries […]
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Cynthia asks: “Hi Steve, I have been using profile generator for my organization for a while now, but a new issue has come up. We want to simply move users to a new exchange server host name, without deleting their current profile. Otherwise their PST files and other things attached to the profile will get […]
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One of the issues when deploying Microsoft Outlook is that there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in Outlook 2010, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially annoying if you have users that […]
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One of the issues when deploying Microsoft Outlook is that there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in Outlook 2010, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially annoying if you have users that […]
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Back in 2007, I wrote an article about an error that you get in Outlook when you have too many attachments of the same name: Even Outlook 2010 has this problem. In the article, I walk you through deleting these files by hand. It is not an easy thing to do. You need to open […]
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I was reading an article at PCMag about PatchMateXP. They have had all the patches for XP on one convenient CD. Unfortunately for PatchMateXP, this breaks a license with Microsoft and they shut themselves down before they got into legal trouble. This got me thinking – is there a way to get MS Updates on […]
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With Microsoft Outlook there is always some form or wizard that needs to be completed before a user can start accessing their email. Even in Outlook 2010, there are still setup pages the user has to fill out. This can get especially painful if you have users that logon to different computers across your network. […]
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I recently received a question from a reader: Hi Steve, I recently read your article about changing the default save location for MS Outlook 2003 at http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/set-default-folder-for-attachments-in-outlook-2003/ It is very informative; however, it was almost what I was looking for. I would like to change the default OPEN location, so I was wondering if you […]
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I have been seeing this message on and off with attachments for some time now in outlook: Can’t Create file: VoiceMessage.wav. Right-Click the folder you want to create the file in, and then click properties on the shortcut menu to check your permissions for the folder In this case it was a voicemail. Sometimes it […]
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