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Delete duplicate emails in Microsoft Outlook
In case you ever get caught up in the glitch where Outlook re-downloads the entirety of someone’s pop account and now you have 2 of every email, this tool worked for me. http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp Just install it and then open Outlook. On the add-ins tab there should be a place to run it. It will move all duplicates to a subfolder of the inbox which you can delete after. As always, back up the PST/OST before doing...
read moreDelete and recreate a mailbox in Exchange 2010 without causing NK2/GAL issues
Problem You need to delete/recreate a mailbox for some reason (ex: corruption) but cannot have NDR when the user’s mailbox is recreated. If you deleted and recreated without these step, you would run into the following problems Mail sent by the user prior to the recreation will have the incorrect Exchange Legacy DN. When people go to reply to mail sent prior to the recreation they will get a NDR. Same for calendar entries/meeting requests etc. The address saved in other users NK2 or cached address lists will be wrong and result in...
read moreDelete a protected Organizational Unit from active directory
How to delete a protected OU Open active directory users and computers Go to View and enable Advanced Features Right click on the OU you want to delete that is protected from deletion Go to Properties, Object tab Uncheck the box for protecting from accidental deletion, click OK/apply Delete the OU
read moreDWG TrueView 2013 .NET error
When installing DWG TrueView 2013 it errors out stating “.Net 4 framework is not installed…”. In this case the .Net4 framework was installed, but it was only the client. TrueView requires the full version. It can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/net/download under For Server and...
read moreDNS errors in browsers while using a D-Link router
Some versions support “Advanced DNS” and are set that way by default. This means they automatically route all internet usage through OpenDNS servers which scan for phishing and block various things. This can cause your internet connection to be slow, time out, or have errors in DNS. To disable, go to the Internet setup manually and uncheck the box for advanced DNS. Save and reboot the device. You may want to enter your own DNS at that point as it defaults to 0.0.0.0. You may want to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 which is Google...
read moreDHCP service stops when it encounters another DHCP server (SBS only)
DHCP service on the SBS server stopped running. Checking the event viewer showed that it was stopped because it found a duplicate DHCP server on the network. In SBS servers, the DHCP services default behavior is to shut down should it encounter another DHCP server (this is not the default behavior for non-SBS servers). The mechanism that shuts down the DHCP service is called “DHCP Rogue Detection” and can be disabled by creating a key here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\DHCPServer\parameters\ The key should...
read moreCorrupt Windows profile v2
Fixed issue where it wouldn’t log in saying “the user profile service failed the logon” and “user profile cannot be loaded”. Going in through safe mode loaded a default account. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList There is one line for each profile. If a profile is bad, check: That the key name doesn’t end in “.bak” (remove .bak if there). If one of the same name exists without .bak, just name that one .old, then remove .bak from the other....
read moreConfigure Hyper-V Core firewall from PowerShell
Run the following command on Hyper-V Core PowerShell to enable RDP access Enable-netfirewallrule -displayname "Remote Desktop - User Mode...
read moreChange Hyper-V Virtual Machine RAM settings from PowerShell
From PowerShell you can type:Set-VMMemory serverName -DynamicEnabled $false -StartupBytes 1000mb For example to turn off dynamic memory use and set the ram to 1gb. The virtual machine has to be off to do...
read moreCertificateServicesClient-CertEnroll error 13 and CertificateServicesClient-AutoEnrollment error 6 repeats every 5 minutes
Caused by a Certificate Authority (CA) removed from the domain. In this case it was an Exchange 2010 server. The uninstall did not remove some CA references which caused the errors whenever it tried to communicate with it. You have to go into AD Sites and Services and remove several entries listed in the...
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