“Clutter” is a feature enabled in all Office365 hosted email addresses as of summer 2015. Clutter uses Microsoft’s machine learning named Delve to figure out what is not important to you and moves those messages into a Clutter folder. If you want to disable Clutter, you have three choices: How To […]
Windows 10 and 8 use a substantially different process to create images than what I had used in Windows XP and 7. Fortunately it is not rocket science. The four big differences are: So lets get to it. Simple Step By Step Instructions to Build A Windows 10 Customized Image: Thanks to […]
There is a lot of misinformation surrounding this use of DisplayPort to Daisy Chain monitors. In addition to needing the LCD’s set to DisplayPort 1.2 the hardware has to be compatible and in the case of a Microsoft Surface, there are several that are not. After working with Dell and […]
If you have created a DRAFT message on your Samsung Galaxy S6 using Android 5 you will find that it does not sync back to your Outlook. This is because SYNC for the DRAFTS folder is defaulted to MANUAL. If you would like the drafts you create on your Android […]
If you are using Exchange Management Shell (PowerShell) and need to change the ActiveSync Policy for people in a specific OU using a wildcard (i.e. you want to effect the ActiveSync policy for all users in the ABCDEFG OU you can use a script like this: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | […]
What to do about Samsung Gear Email: The content of this email cannot be displayed on the gear for security reasons. For details, view this email on your mobile device
Twitter uses the # (hashtag) to link to a topic where as the @ (at sign) to link to a person:P # = Topic – for example URTech knows more about #windows, #exchange and #Samsung #S3 than most other companies @ = Person – for example URTech is owned by @IanMatthews You […]
Below is the list of Top Level Domains that are under consideration to be released in 2014. I spoke with GoDaddy, Network Solutions, and ICANN to confirm that no such list is publicly available… so I (well, actually a good friend of mine at www.smarttowns.ca ) manually scraped the ICANN site […]
If you have ever wanted to report your spam directly to Microsoft so that they can block future emails using their FOPE (Forefront Online Protection Services), Forefront For Exchange or just the basic Junk mail filter in Outlook, this is the post for you. Reporting spam to Microsoft is useful […]
If you have an older AMD CPU based system and you attempt to install or upgrade to Windows 8.1 you will see a message like: You can’t install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn’t support CompareExchange128. This is true but there are three important points to note: 32BIT Windows 8.1 […]
If you have upgraded to Windows 8.1, you are now using Internet Explorer 11. OWA (from Exchange 2007, 2010 or even the new 2013) does not work properly with IE11 does not work in full mode. UPDATE: January 2014 This problem should be resolved in: UPDATE ROLLUP 3 FOR SERVICE PACK […]
If you have ever had Exchange with Public Folders, you will know that there is currently no way to reverse the AD Schema additions and so Outlook will continue to look for Public Folders. Microsoft has largely withdrawn support for Public folders, but your Outlook, even Outlook 2013, will hunt for […]
This is an easy one if you pay attention to the details in the error: Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:00 Dan Tican\IEM/1026121420 CFNetwork/609 Darwin/13.0.0 Failed Error: The ActiveSyncDevice MY DOMAIN/Ian – Users/Dan/ExchangeActiveSyncDevices/iPhone§78D33F828A7549BF95E4FE cannot be found. Click here for help… http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms.exch.err.default(EXCHG.141).aspx?v=14.3.123.3&t=exchgf1&e=ms.exch.err.Ex0FBD0C Exchange Management Shell command attempted: […]
If you modify an Outlook Calendar event, click SEND UPDATE and then see: Cannot send this meeting request. The property does not exist. Your meeting likely has some hidden attachments Download MFCMapi.exe from http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com Un-zip the file and click on the mfcmapi.exe Click Session Select Logon and Display Store Table Select […]
LAST UPDATED: August 8 2013 This was an easy and fun task to complete and it was only slightly more complex than enabling Shadow Copy… so you can do this! Things you need to know first about Data Deduplication in Server 2012: If you have other dedup software, hardware or […]
As of January 2013 Microsoft Core CAL on Enterprise Agreements include the following 6 items: Windows Server User CAL Exchange Server Standard User CAL SharePoint User CAL Lync Server Standard User CAL System Center Configuration Manager Client ML System Center Endpoint Protection