We’ve run into a problem with your Office 365 subscription after tenant to tenant migration.

After a tenant to tenant migration multiple people got the message ‘We’ve run into a problem with your Office 365 subscription’. I found a script wroted by someone on 365labs.net; How to resolve “We’ve run into a problem with your Office 365 subscription” with PowerShell So to resolve this issue you start powershell on the PC […]

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Allow synchronisation of files with special characters (like # and %).

Allow synchronisation of files that include special characters in the filenames, like # and %. Step 1; Download and install the ‘SharePoint Online Management Shell’ link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588 Step 2; Open the SharePoint Online Management Shell by searching for ‘sharepoint’ in your startmenu. Step 3; Run the following command: (replace the values according to the tenant […]

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Windows 10 PC / Laptop goes randomly to sleep mode.

When your experience your PC or laptop going into sleep mode randomly there a lot of things that could cause that. What resolved the issue for me is this: # Open command prompt as administrator and run the following command: REG ADD “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0” /v Attributes /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f # Restart the ‘explorer.exe’ process […]

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DFS – Replication service failed to recover from an internal database error on volume.

When DFS is not replicating anymore and you see event ID 2104 with error 9214 there is a simple solution to do which i found on this website: http://www.asptricks.net/2017/01/replication-service-failed-to-recover.html Basicly it’s disabling the replication group nodes and running a .bat file. 1. Disable group replication (DFS Management -> Replication -> Replication group -> Connections -> […]

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Windows – Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER as different user

It can happpen that you would need to edit the registery for a user, but regedit is disabled for the userprofile. There is an option to open registery settings for another user as the administrator; #1 Log in as Administrator and open regedit. #2 Select HKEY_USERS and then go to ‘File -> Load Hive #3 […]

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Outlook – Pressed backspace, where did my email go?

When you (accidently) press ‘backspace’ within Outlook you will see your highlighted email dissapear. You will not find it in deleted items or even in restore deleted items, because it’s in your ‘Archive’ folder within your profile. Find your ‘Archive’ folder and you will see the message you just pressed ‘backspace’ on.

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VLC is crashing when starting up a game

When you have a doublescreen setup and you want to use VLC to watch video’s or play music while you game it will crash. There is a solution for this issue; Steps: Open VLC and go to preferences -> go to video -> choose ‘all’ at the bottom and search for Overlay video output in […]

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Outlook 2016 – Upgrade in Progress

Recently i faced some Outlook 2016 functionality issues. It became impossible to sent / receive email. In Outlook 2016 options there was a message ‘Upgrade in progress’ This could be there for days without any change. Some websites are saying that opening Outlook in /safe mode is resolving the issue, this was not the case […]

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Office365 – Create a roomlist

If you have multiple rooms in your Exchange Online environment you want to use roomlist(s). To create a roomlist first connect to powershell: Connect to Office 365 using Windows Powershell To create a roomlist enter the below command: New-DistributionGroup -Name “New RoomList” -Roomlist You will now have a roomlist, but the list is empty. To […]

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RW Everything

Sometimes when you reinstall your PC, or for any other reason you need the OEM Microsoft Windows Productkey your laptop / PC came with. Since there is no sticker with the key on the device you can use a very neat program called ‘RW Everything’ http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/rweverything.html After unzipping the .zip choose rw.exe and click on […]

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How to install warcraft 3 completely with the latest patches.

First step is to buy Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos and Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne, you can buy them as a ‘battlechest’ on kinguin for cheap: http://www.kinguin.net/category/21335/warcraft-3-battlechest-eu-battle-net-cd-key/?r=10173 or buy it from the battle.net site: http://battle.net After you’ve bought and download both installers, first install the ROC game. After that, you have to install a […]

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Office 365 – Force DirSync synchronisation / update

DirSync will automaticly update passwords every 2 minutes and other users / settings every 3 hours but sometimes you want to force it. To do that open Windows Powershell and go to: PS> cd “C:\Program Files\Windows Azure Active Directory Sync\Sync” PS> .\ImportModules.ps1 PS> Start-OnlineCoexistenceSync Thats it!

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Office 2013 – Slow in RDP / RDS

In a terminal server session (RDP / RDS) Outlook, or the whole Office 2013 suite seems very slow in comparison with Office 2010. To workaround this issue you have to change your RDP-Display options to 16 or 24 bit (32bit is default). To do this: Open ‘remote desktop connection'(mstsc) Choose ‘Show options’ -> Display -> […]

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Outlook 2010 – Anonymous security option missing

When you are trying to configure Office 365 in Outlook 2010 there is a change the ‘anonymous’ security setting is missing. This will result in a setup faillure when trying to log in to office 365 account. So you can’t setup office365 via either autodiscover or manual. To resvolve this issue i did the following: […]

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Google Chrome – Can’t open ‘add attachment’ in Outlook Web App (OWA).

When you try to sent a new email and want to add an attachment nothing happens in google chrome. There is a simple fix for this issue and that is to simply run this .reg file: chrome-showmodaldialog Or change it yourself: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\EnableDeprecatedWebPlatformFeatures] “1”=”ShowModalDialog_EffectiveUntil20150430″ Re-open google chrome and the OWA and it should work!

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Office365 – Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine” when opening Office.

When you try to open office documents you get ‘Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine’ error. The solution to this error is to delete the stand-alone Microsoft OneDrive for Business 2013 sync client from add / remove a program. Once this program is removed you can succesfully open office programs again without the […]

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Install Office 365 ProPlus on Windows Terminal Server / RDS

UPDATE 2017: There is now this awesome tool as where you can create an Office365 installer, see here for more information: https://officedev.github.io/Office-IT-Pro-Deployment-Scripts/XmlEditor.html Since September 2014, the ProPlus edition of Office 365 allows you to install Office365 on a terminal server. This how-to will help you install Office 365 ProPlus on your terminal server. I’ve tested […]

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Windows Exchange 2010 – Remove log files

Exchange server logfiles can grow very fast! There are either logfiles in the directory ‘Mailbox Database’ or in ‘Public folder database xxxxxxx’. I’ve create a .bat file which delete all log files aged 2 days and older: forfiles -p “C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 0258665593” -m E000*.log -d -2 -c “cmd /c del @path” forfiles -p […]

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Office 365 – Become a partner of record for your customer

To become partner of record you will need your Partner ID. You can find this in the partner portal from microsoft: https://partners.microsoft.com/ When you have your Partner ID you have to log in with the customers administrator office365 account on portal.office.com. Go to -> Billing -> subscriptions. Select the subscription on the right, at the […]

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Windows 10 – Apple ethernet adapater

Use your Apple USB Ethernet adapter on Windows 10 To use your Apple USB Ethernet adapter on Windows 10 you have to do a few things. First you need to Disable driver signature enforcement. Go to start and type ‘advanced’ and click ‘change advanced startup options’ At advanced start up, choose restart now. On the […]

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