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Knitted cover for my Amazon Kindle
It was my birthday recently and I was lucky enough to receive an Amazon Kindle, if you haven’t seen or used one of these I’d highly recommend it, it is actually quite an amazing little thing. I also...
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Dell Openmanage Server Administrator E-Mail Alerts – Powershell & VBScript...
Last year I posted a script written in VBScript which enables email alerts from Dell OMSA without the need for IT Assistant. This script has proved to be very popular, but a number of users have not...
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Outlook: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Had a problem with a customer today sending an email and instantly getting a response that the message was undeliverable, with the message: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended...
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SPA Call Manager Pro Released!
I’ve been working on a project for some time to enhance the usability of the IP Phones that we use internally. Namely the Linksys SPA 942 and the Cisco SPA 504g. The product is called SPA Call Manager...
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Initiating a Gradwell call directly from a custom Internet Explorer Context Menu
I recently read some documentation on the Gradwell website which detailed how to initiate calls via the web: http://www.gradwell.com/support/kb/article.php?id=159 I wrote a powershell script to test...
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Adding an Intel 520 Series SSD as a CacheCade drive to a Dell PowerEdge R510
I’ve been itching to try out the LSI CacheCade technology since reading this review: http://www.storagereview.com/lsi_megaraid_cachecade_pro_20_review The LSI CacheCade Technology is now included with...
View ArticleQuick script to bulk add users in Ubuntu
Needed to add a few hundred user accounts to an Ubuntu server and couldn’t find a script to do exactly what I want. This script probably won’t do exactly what you want either, but you should be able to...
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Extremely long delay trying to install msi installer packages
A few months back I had a problem with a customers Terminal Server that was caused by the installation of a crappy HP Printer Driver. It actually totally killed the server but after we found the cause...
View ArticleChanging the format of date parameters on a SQL Server 2012 reporting...
Hit a snag today trying to set the format on date parameters that drive SSRS 2012 reports – at first I thought it would be simple to fix but after searching around for solutions, didn’t come up with...
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Small outlook add-in to make Gradwell calls directly from Outlook
Having played around with the Gradwell API a little bit I decided to write a little addin for Outlook 2010 to make calls and send SMS messages directly without having to use my handset. The add-in has...
View ArticleAlias names in Microsoft Query no longer work in recent versions of Office
I’m using Office 2010 and Office 2013 to aggregate data from a SQL data source. In the past I have had no problems aliasing column names in MS Query but found today that it no longer seemed to work....
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Adding an alias address to a distribution group in Office 365
If you are trying to add an additional email address to a distribution group in Office 365 using the web interface you will see the following error: Conversion from...
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Outlook 2007 crashes when opening calendar view
I’ve had this problem on a couple of machines now, both were running Outlook 2007 SP3. Outlook appears to be working normally, but if you try to access the calender it just hangs and displays “not...
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Sending from an additional email alias in Office 365 using Outlook
Although it is possible to assign many email aliases to a single account in Office 365 it is not possible to send from these aliases using Outlook and be able to select that address when composing a...
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Delete an email alias from a distribution group in Office 365 using Powershell
If you are trying to remove an email alias in a distribution group in Office 365 using the web interface you will see the following error: Conversion from...
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Hiding contacts from the Global Address List (GAL) in Office 365 using...
I noticed when I was setting up a mail contact in Office 365 (Wave 15) today that there is no way to hide contacts from the GAL via the web based user interface for Office 365 like there is for normal...
View ArticleOffice 365: Convert a shared mailbox to a user mailbox using Powershell
It is very easy to use Powershell to change the recipient type of a mailbox in Office 365, but this cannot be done using the web interface. This can be done by using the Set-mailbox cmdlet and there...
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How to add “Send As” permissions on Office 365 Using Powershell
To add “Send As” permissions for a user against another mailbox or distribution group you need to use the Add-MailboxPermission cmdlet. e.g. Add-RecipientPermission "Sales Group" -AccessRights SendAs...
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Error 80070005 using Office 365 to send-as from a Shared Mailbox or...
When trying to send email from a different address in Outlook on Office 365 you may receive Error 80070005 : Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: test Sent:...
View ArticleOffice 365: Forwarding Mail to an External contact with Powershell
If you want to forward your email to an external contact in Office 365 there are several ways to do this. This page has some good documentation about how the various ways to achieve this:...
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