Error code; 0x80070005-0x000004dc-0x00000524 when trying to sent an email from shared mailbox

Recently a customer was getting the error code; 0x80070005-0x000004dc-0x00000524 when trying to email ‘sent as’ from a newly created shared mailbox. After searching online I found a lot of potential solutions like; – Make sure only Full Access and Full control are set as permissions, do not use sent on behalf aswell. – Start Outlook […]

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Microsoft 365 – Create an organization library

Alot of posts have been written about the late-2019 rolled out feature to create organization library’s. After playing around a bit I’ve decided to make a short manual on how to achieve these 2 types of library’s. General info for this topic I used is: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/organization-assets-library There are two types of Organization asset types; 1. […]

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Windows 10 – Can’t open .heic files

Recently I came across some devices who can’t seem to open the new iPhone picture format .heic. I found some sites stating that only Windows needs to be up to date 1903 or higher, but in some cases that still does not resolve this. To resolve this you can install the ‘Video extensions from device […]

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SharePoint Online Migration Tool – Scan File Failure:The item created time or modified time is not supported

When migrating to SharePoint Online / OneDrive for business, you could get the error: Scan File Failure:The item created time or modified time is not supported This seems because the file or folder doensnt have a (valid) creation date, in my case it had the value “4-3-1601 05:27:48”. To resolve this issue, the files need […]

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Sharepoint Migration Tool – Invalid SharePoint Online list

When migrating on premises files to SharePoint Online / OneDrive for Business, Microsoft made a simple tool available ‘SharePoint Migration Tool’. Sometimes you will get the ‘Invalid SharePoint Online List’ error like; “Invalid SharePoint Online list ‘Documents’”,”ACTION_STOP”,”0x0201000D” Thanks to Thomasssssss on this technet topic; https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/774100d6-9a6b-4e3e-91b5-8f15f38047f4/quotinvalid-sharepoint-online-list?forum=SharePointMigrationTool i found the solution. So to get this working do […]

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Convert .qcow2 file to .vhd or .vhdx

Recently we had a ProxMox environment crash and needed to restore some files inside a VM. We did not want to rebuild the Proxmox environment and could access the virtual harddisk files used by Proxmox, in this case .qcow2 files. There is a nice tool available to convert these files to convienent .vhdx files so […]

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PowerShell – Change homedirectory permissions in bulk.

Recently I was asked to change the homedirectory permissions for >4000 users from Full Control, to ready only. I’ve used below powershell commands to achieve this. Firstly we need to get all SamAccountName’s in a .csv list. (Change the searchbase). Get-ADUser -Filter * -SearchBase “OU=www,DC=iterrors,DC=com” | Where { $_.Enabled -eq $True} | select SamAccountName | […]

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Sharepoint Online – Add members and owners via PowerShell

To add members and owners to a SharePoint Online TeamSite you have the below commands avaiable: Note that if you need to make someone Owner of the Teamsite, the user first needs to be member! And then you make the user Owner. #Get Groupnames Get-UnifiedGroup #Check for current members Get-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity “groupname” –LinkType Members #Check […]

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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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