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To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice15.0OutlookResiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in … Read more
This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for … Read more
We have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some … Read more
To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and … Read more
If you are using Exchange in our organisation and have dynamic distribution groups, you may want to get all the information about the individual users within these distribution groups and also list their email addresses. To do this, open up an Exchange Management Shell console and run the following script: $group = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup –identity “yourDL” … Read more
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to … Read more
If you want to export a users set of contacts from Exchange directly into a PST file using Powershell, then you can run this command using Exchange Management Shell (EMS): export-mailbox -id User1 -includefolders ‘contacts’ -pstfolderpath C:User1.pst Where: User1 = the mailbox that you want to export from C:User1.pst = the PST filename where you want … Read more
Microsoft have released the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 version 1.2. There does not seem to be much information on what is updated in version 1.2 and we have installed it and cannot find any differences either, maybe just some security flaws fixed. You may also notice that DHCP is not included, but you … Read more
If you are using a Shoretel telephony system then you probably are aware of the pain of getting voice recording prompts into the correct format for use with the system. You may also struggle with getting people to record the messages you require unless you go out to a professional recording service. However, text to … Read more
If you are using SCCM and you want to delete a device from your database (for example if you are using OSD and only deploying to Unknown Devices) then you would normally have to go into the SCCM Console, Devices, search for the device and then right click and delete the device which would remove … Read more
We have recently been using a new script that we came across which allows you to run a PowerShell script on your SCCM environment and it looks for all the Dell hardware models that you have and then automatically downloads all the latest drivers and BIOS’s for each machine found. This is an excellent way … Read more
If you are using SCCM for the deployment of software then you may find that with the smaller SSD’s that you may be using that free space is becoming an issue. This can be because the more an end user installs to their machine from your Software Catalog, the more data that is being downloaded … Read more