A new client side feature which Microsoft has released in Exchange 2010 SP1 is the ability of Outlook 2010 to automatically map all mailboxes to which the logged in user has full access. There by, on each mailbox that you have been granted Full Access, you will see it on your own personal mailbox. In Order to disable automatic mapping: Go to this user mailbox, right click on it and choose manage full mailbox access, then just remove your user from the full mailbox access page You can use Read more

  While performing maintenance to Exchange 2010 DAG server you should first remove the DAG member from DAG group.Other wise you may have unwanted DB failovers and many other unexpected issue that may affect company mail services availability Shutting Down DAG Members The Exchange 2010 high availability solution is integrated with the Windows shutdown process. If an administrator or application initiates a shutdown of a Windows server in a DAG that has a mounted database that's replicated Read more

  When you try to upgrade to new version of VMware tools , Installation wizard asks you to uninstall older version . If you can’t do it , or uninstall feature failed to complete, you will need to uninstall them manually. You may receive the following errors A previous version of VMware Tools is already installed To remove old VMware tools follow the steps bellow: Open registry editor Navigate to the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionuninstall Read more

  Some times we need to use PS script to send email, script can be used in Task Scheduler or any other program BatchFile to run script: Create *.bat file C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange Serverbinexshell.psc1" -noexit -command ". C:scriptslocationscriptname.ps1"   PS Script to send mail: Create  .ps1 file $filename = “c:filelocationHtmlFIleyouwant torecieve.html” $smtpServer = “SMTP Read more

ODF is the default format of OpenOffice.org Most common OpenOffice file extensions are odt : Word Processor ods: Spreadsheet ( Excel) odp: Presentation (PowerPoint) By default MS Office doesn’t support those formats'. For Office 2003 To open one of the following formats you need to install Sun ODF Plugin You can download the Sun ODF Plugin from here  For office 2007 users Install Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office. You must have Office 2007 SP 1 installed to make it Read more

Terminal Server Office 2003/2007/2010 Installation issue If you installed office in the same way you install it on your desktop. Your user information will be replicated to all other users. You may receive complaints that some excel or word files are been hold by your username or username you used to install Office. You can fix it the following way. Search for the user in registry One of the keys under HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurentVersionInstallerUserData will have office instalation Read more

  You may see this error when you try to accept recurrence meeting ,which time was been updated. To resolve this issue: On the BES Server, click Start > Run and type regedit. Navigate to the following registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookOptionsCalendar. Right-click the Calendar folder and click New > DWORD Value. Type DisableMeetingRegeneration and press ENTER. Double-click the new key and type 1 in the Value data field of the Edit String screen. Read more

 

Scenario:

User is not been reconnected to same Terminal Server session.

The consequences can be duplicated sessions, profile location lose, locked files on storage and more.
After few hours I found that Microsoft have A HotFix that addresses the issue

KB article is: KB977541

  I got this after installing some update, can’t say exactly which. The problem symptom is that when you type anything in search bar it looks like that To solve it. Go to Run> type regedit.exe Navigate to :HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurre ntVersionExplorerFolderTypes{EF87B4CB-F2CE-4785-8658-4CA6C63E38C6}TopViews You will see a key named {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} Just rename it to anything else like {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.Orig After Read more

  During migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007 we had the problem with Outlook 2007 client free busy response was slow , about 10 seconds to load . To fix it . Open registry editor on your Desktop(where outlook is installed) Navigate to the following path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookOptionsCalendar Create new DWORD value named UseLegacyFB and set value to 1 Note: 0 or not set will use default outlook settings 1 will use Public Folder based Free/Busy Read more