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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Get rid of Windows 8 Metro start menu – Startisback

Getting tired of the new Windows 8 Metro interface? There is a solution, for only $3, (PayPal) you can buy ‘startisback’ see their website: http://www.startisback.com/ Startisback has a lot of settings, you can customize the view, the way buttons respond and also the program list. Microsoft will probably re-introduce the start-menu in Windows 9. In […]

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Install Google Chrome on a Windows Terminal Server

By default you can’t install Google Chrome on a terminal server so that it works for every user. Google has made a ‘StandAlone’ installer that you need to install on a terminal server. Link: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?system=true&standalone=1 When you install this google chrome will work on your terminal server.

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Connect to Office 365 using Windows Powershell

Open Windows Powershell and run the following commands: $LiveCred = Get-Credential Type your Office 365 administrator account and click ‘Ok’ $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session

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Exchange 2010 – Completely remove a mailbox

Whenever you delete a mailbox from Exchange 2010 the mailbox is not deleted completely from the server. To remove the mailbox you have to execute the following commands: Clean-MailboxDatabase “Mailbox Name” When you now open Exchange Management Console and go to Recipient Configuration and then Disconnected Mailboxes you will see the the mailbox you just […]

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Outlook – Copy calendar items

Open Outlook and go to Calendar. Go to View and click on Change View and select Active. Now you select all items (Control + A) Copy all the selected items (Control + C) And now paste the items on the destination calendar (Control + V) That’s it!

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Exchange 2003 – Create a mail enabled Public Folder

If you want to create a Public Folder in Exchange 2003 you have to: Open the Exchange System Manager and go to: Administrative groups -> ‘Administrative group’ -> Folders -> Public folders. Right click on ‘Public Folders’ and select New -> Public Folder. Now give the public folder a name. When done you can press […]

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