May 2014 – <Unlock things releated to Microsoft And some other companies on the side/>

Fully automated uninstallation of Office 2007 / 2010 and Installation of Office 365 Click-To-Run

Posted on 29/05/2014
/Under Office 2013, Office 365

Hi again, Here a nice tip from Mark Kean for automating office installations as part of moving to the cloud. Uninstall old ones: http://marckean.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/fully-automate-removal-of-any-version-office-in-preparation-for-office-365/ Install new one: http://marckean.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/fully-automate-the-installation-of-office-365/continue reading →

Outlook 2013 stuck on Loading user profile.

Posted on 29/05/2014
/Under Office 2013

If you can’t access Outlook 2013 to disable hardware acceleration, create the DisableHardwareAcceleration registry subkey. To do this, follow these steps: Exit all instances of Office applications (for example, Office 365, Outlook, and Lync Online). Start Registry Editor. Create the following registry value: Subkey: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0CommonGraphics DWORD: DisableHardwareAcceleration Value: 1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2761977continue reading →

Migrate two different Exchange forest with the same netbios name to Office 365 with dirsync.

Posted on 29/05/2014
/Under Exchange

Our customer has two forests. And they have the same netbios name. So no forest trust then. One of them with users and computers and the other with different usernames and their mailboxes. The dilemma is to migrate them to Office 365 and using computer forest ast point of authority.…continue reading →

How to migrate CA Root from server to another

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Certificates, Migrate

This article shows you exactly how to migrate CA Root to another server. The new server can be anything from 2008 to 2012 R2. In the Certification Authority snap-in, right-click the CA name, click All Tasks, and then click Back up CA to start the Certification Authority Backup Wizard. Select…continue reading →

SMTP high availability with one ip address

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Clustering, DAG, Exchange, Onpremise

We have a customer that needed to migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 and keep the old ip-address in place for smtp traffic from inside and outside. In clustered Exchange 2010 and 2013 the Primary Active Manager has the clustered role and the quorum. So therefore we can assign…continue reading →

Add SIP address to all users in certain OU

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Exchange, Office 365, Powershell

This situation may come true if you have Onpremises Exchange and Online tenant Lync. Then you need to add a SIP address with the same name as the user is in the Online tenant. And here's the script: $mailboxes = Get-Mailbox -OrganizationalUnit contoso.local/Users/someOU foreach ($mailbox in $mailboxes) {Set-Mailbox -Identity $mailbox…continue reading →

Exchange 2010 sp3 RU5 and Online tenant Hybrid

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Exchange, Hybrid, Office 365, Onpremise

We had a customer with multiple smtp domains at onpremise Exchange. 1. First you need to add them to authorized domains in Office 365 control panel. 2. Add the given txt -records to public dns. 3. Go back to Office 365 control panel and verify domains. 4. Next go backup…continue reading →

Removing the Temporary Attribute from Multiple Files with Powershell

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Autocad, DFS, Powershell

I found this one very helpful in debugging DFS replication with Autodesk generated files. Autodesk products stamp a temporary mark to files it generates. And this causes DFS to stop replicating them. Run this powershell oneliner to clear out the attribute from files under directory: Get-childitem D:Data -recurse | ForEach-Object…continue reading →

Can’t change Office 2013 shortcut locations in the Office Customization Tool

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Lync, Office 2013

Well this is annoying. When try to modify Skydrive or Lync shortcuts or even add a desktop shortcut they wont work. Hopefully there is a workaround for this. Add [ to Start In -box ... like this: And you have shortcut for Lync 2013 in the desktop after install.continue reading →

How to display only user databases in SQL

Posted on 09/05/2014
/Under Onpremise

This is how: select * from sys.sysdatabases where dbid>4 and [name] not like '$'continue reading →

Month: May 2014