This is a short tutorial on how to add full access to all mailboxes in Exchange 2007 and 2010 for a an additional user. This can come in handy when say migrating to Office 365 in which you need your migration account to have full access. We were surprised by how many variations we found, so we decided to post one.

Step 1

Launch the Exchange Management Shell.

Step 2

Type the following and press enter; replacing “name_of_database” with the name of your Mailbox Storage Database and “name_of_user_account” with the name of the user you are wanting to have full access rights:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited -Database "name_of_database" | Add-mailboxpermission –user "name_of_user_account" –AccessRights FullAccess

The names of your databases can be found under “mailbox” under the Server Configuration in the Exchange Management Console. Click into the database management tab.

You can also grant full access permission manually one at a time by right clicking on a mailbox in the Exchange Management Console and selecting “Manage Full Access Permissions.”

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We ran across this issue today on a Windows Server 2008 print server. The issue seems to be with some of HP’s various printer model drivers. We have also seen reports of the same issue on Windows Server 2003.

When going into the properties of the printer you receive this error: “The ‘HP Laserjet 1200 Series PCL 5′ printer driver is not installed on this computer. Some printer properties will not be accessible unless you install the printer driver. Do you want to install the driver now?”

This appears to occur when you have switched from one version of a driver to another. There is a registry setting that doesn’t get changed. If you are having a similar error, try following the steps below.

Step 1

Launch the registry editor.

Step 2

Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Microsoft > Windows NT > Print Printers. Find the folder with the name of your printer and then locate the “HPTrayCount” entry.

Step 3

Most likely the value data is set to “0.” If so, change this to “12.”

Now check your printer properties again and you should no longer receive this error.

Please see these additional links for more information on this error.

http://jrudd.org/2010/05/hp-printers-printer-driver-is-not-installed-on-windows-2008-r2/
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/5101195b-3aca-4699-9a06-db4578614e2d/

Trying to sign in to Xbox Music in Windows 8 and getting the error code 0xc00d11cd (0×80004001)? Follow the instructions below to troubleshoot the error.

Solution 1

First off you can try following the steps outline by Microsoft for that error here: http://support.xbox.com/en-US/apps/windows-8/windows-8-error-c00d11cd

Solution 2

If nothing from the above link worked, which it didn’t for us, you might want to check the version of Windows 8 you are running. It is most likely that you are running an “N” edition of Windows 8. You can read about the “N” editions here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/n-editions. Basically the “N” editions don’t come with Windows Media player and some components that are needed for Xbox Music to function.

In our case one of the computers was running Windows 8 Pro N edition as seen under Computer properties.

In that case you will need to download “Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8″ from here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30685. Or use our links below.

Windows6.2-KB2703761-x64.msu
Windows6.2-KB2703761-x86.msu

After you install the feature pack you will need to restart your computer. Then try signing back into Xbox music. It should now work!

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This tutorial will show you how to manually clear out a job stuck in the print queue. The first thing to try is obviously restarting the printer/computer. You can also try right clicking on the job in the queue and selecting delete/cancel. If those things don’t work, then follow the directions below.

Step 1

Browse to C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS

There are two corresponding files for each print job, a .SPL file and a .SHD file that you will want to locate.

I usually open up the .SPL files with notepad and browse to find the correct print job. They normally list the username of person who printed and the printer model. The files don’t look pretty, but with some CTRL+F you should be able to locate the specific document that is stuck in the queue.

Step 2

Now go to the Start Menu > Administrative tools and launch Services (services.msc).

Step 3

Right click on “Print Spooler” and stop it. If you don’t stop it, you will get errors in Step 4.

Step 4

Delete the .SPL file and .SHD file corresponding to the stuck document in Step 1.

Step 5

Now start the print spooler back up by right clicking on it and selecting “Start.”

Refresh the window on the print queue and it should now be gone!

If you work in a small business environment and do this quick, you can locate/delete the files + stop/restart the print spooler without any downtime. Another way people have fixed a job stuck in the queue is by setting the driver in isolation mode. That is another article. This is simply a quick way to clear out the queue.

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We have 20 free licensed copies of CollageIt Pro (valued @ $19.90!) to give away that we received from Pearl Mountain. The first 20 people to comment on this post will get the licenses, one per person.

We have 12 Windows licenses and 8 Mac OS X licenses! First come first serve. Please comment below with which platform you prefer. We will update the post to let you know once certain ones are gone.

CollageIt Pro Description

Product URL: http://www.collageitfree.com/

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• Remove limitations and say goodbye to the annoying splash screen!
• Crop photo
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The license keys expire on May 13, 2013. Install and register it before then!

We will soon be doing a hardware giveaway! Make sure to subscribe to our newsletter, or like us on Facebook/Follow us on Twitter so you don’t miss out.

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This is a short tutorial on how to re-enable a disabled plugin in Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Outlook 2010, and Microsoft Outlook 2013. Plugins can sometimes get disabled for a variety of reasons. Especially the Microsoft CRM plugin.

Click here to skip to Microsoft Outlook 2010 Instructions
Click here to skip to Microsoft Outlook 2013 Instructions

Microsoft Outlook 2007

Step 1

In Outlook, go up to the Help Menu and click on “Disabled Items…”

Step 2

In the menu you should see the name of your plugin or the file associated with the name of the plugin. Select it and then click “Enable.”

Step 3

Now close Microsoft Outlook, and re-open it. Your plugin is now enabled.

Microsoft Outlook 2010

Step 1

In Outlook go up to the file menu and click into “Options.”

Step 2

On the left hand side select “Add-ins” and then under the drop down box next to manage make sure it is selected on “Disabled Items” and click Go.

Step 3

In the menu you should see the name of your plugin or the file associated with the name of the plugin. Select it and then click “Enable.”

Step 4

Now close Microsoft Outlook, and re-open it. Your plugin is now enabled.

Microsoft Outlook 2013

Step 1

In Outlook go up to the file menu and click into “Options.”

Step 2

On the left hand side select “Add-ins” and then under the drop down box next to manage make sure it is selected on “Disabled Items” and click Go.

Step 3

In the menu you should see the name of your plugin or the file associated with the name of the plugin. Select it and then click “Enable.”

Step 4

Now close Microsoft Outlook, and re-open it. Your plugin is now enabled.

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If your ISA 2006 server is having problems with any of the following, than I would suggest looking to see if you have the KB2509553 Windows Update installed.

• Slow DNS Lookup times
• Remote desktop not working after clients connect to VPN
• VPN server is stuck on “applying settings” when logging in
• 806 GRE Firewall Errors when trying to connect to VPN
• RRAS service crashes on ISA Server
• New clients cannot connect, VPN server entering deadlock mode

Here is the support article documenting that KB2509553 does indeed break ISA. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2669182

You can visit the page above to download the hotfix, or click the button below. This will take you to a page where you can get the hotfix emailed to you.

** Note ** We filled out the form multiple times and the hotfix URL they emailed us was broken. Probably because this is an older issue. To resolve your problem simply uninstall the KB2509553 update on your ISA server and don’t re-install it.

Here is a technet post with people that have experience the same issue. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Forefrontedgegeneral/thread/2fd8f0ce-83ad-4070-a5bc-36b862f4648c/

Here is a link for additional error troubleshooting for ISA 2006.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rrasblog/archive/2009/08/12/troubleshooting-common-vpn-related-errors.aspx

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As many bloggers have noticed recently with the release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 10, Google AdSense ads are no longer showing in the browser. By default IE10 blocks AdSense ads. While this is great for end users, it isn’t so great for bloggers who rely on some ads to pay for hosting feeds, etc. While IE10 doesn’t hold a significant market share yet, it will only keep going up. And with some blogs, even a 2% market share is a lot money.

You can read more about IE10′s “Do Not Track” settings here: http://www.hasoffers.com/blog/microsoft-attacks-google-do-not-track/

The only workarounds we have seen so far were already posted by sMarty here: http://redirectscripts.com/miscellaneous/google-ads-not-displayed-ie-10-browser.html

One involves changing the meta content tag back to IE7. This will however render our site differently and for most this won’t work very good. He also shares another jQuery and PHP solution.

Neither of these work very great and so most bloggers are left wondering if they should simply ditch Google AdSense temporarily and switch to BuySellAds or other third party’s until this issue has been resolved.

Let us know what you think by commenting below.

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This is a short tutorial to show you how to turn off Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. We don’t recommend keeping this off in a production environment, but perhaps you are in a lab or development environment and simply need to disable it.

Click here to skip to Windows Server 2008 Instructions
Click here to skip to Windows Server 2012 Instructions

Windows Server 2003

Step 1

In Windows Server 2003 it is a little different than Windows Server 2008 and 2012. First you will need to go to the start menu and then to the control panel.

Step 2

Then go to “Add or Remove Programs.”

Step 3

Then on the left hand side click on “Add/Remove Windows Components.”

Step 4

Scroll down and uncheck “Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration.” Then click OK.

Windows Server 2008

Step 1

Go to the start menu and click into “Server Manager.”

Step 2

On the right hand side click on “Configure IE ESC.”

Step 3

By default they are both set to on. You can turn both of them off and then click OK.

Windows Server 2012

Step 1

Click into Local Server, under the Server Manager.

Step 2

On the right hand side, click “On” next to the IE Enhanced Security Configuration.

Step 3

By default, both are set to on. You can turn both of them off and then click OK.

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I have always been a big fan of having a custom home media center PC, and have used both XBMC and Plex for a long time now. But of course, all the work setting up the perfect home media center is useless if you are still bound to a mouse and keyboard. I spend a long time researching the best options for using different remote controls, game controllers, as well as phone and tablet applications to control my media center PC. One of the best and most useful devices that I have come across so far has been the Flirc.

Flirc

The Flirc is a very small usb device that works with practically any IR remote control. After installing the free software, it is very easy to get your remote control working with your media center in just a few minutes. The software has a few different views to program your Flirc specifically for programs like XBMC, Boxee, and WMC. I primarily use Plex, so I usually just stick to the full keyboard view. You can program any key on your keyboard to any button on your remote control and the Flirc does the rest!

One other thing that is great about the Flirc is that it stores the programmed keystrokes on the usb device itself, which allows you to plug your Flirc into another computer and still have your remote control working like normal without having to install the software or re-program it. It even works to control Plex on my Surface RT! (Not that this is very useful, I was just curious)

The one drawback of the Flirc is that it is using an IR signal, so you can’t have anything blocking the path between your remote control and your Flirc. For me, this isn’t much of a problem, as I also use an Xbox 360 controller to control my media center when I’m not in a good spot. However, the Flirc only costs about $20, so it is a very inexpensive and easy way to get your media center PC up and running with your remote control of choice. I definitely recommend this product!

Get your own Flirc at www.flirc.tv!

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As you know, Live Meeting is being discontinued by Microsoft on April 29th, 2013. Because of this a lot of businesses are having to find alternatives. If you are moving forward with Microsoft Lync, follow the instructions below to convert your Live Meetings to Lync Online Meetings. There is no need to re-setup all your meetings. Feel free to tweak this tutorial and send it to your employees/co-workers.

This tutorial assumes you have already installed the Microsoft Lync client.

Step 1

The first step is to close Microsoft Outlook.

Step 2

The second step is to uninstall the Live Meeting “Microsoft Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook.” To do this, go into the control panel, uninstall a program, select “Microsoft Conferencing Add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook” and click on Uninstall.

Step 3

Now launch Microsoft Outlook and click into a meeting you have previously scheduled with Live Meeting.

Step 4

Click the Lync “Online Meeting” icon and then click on “Send Update.” This will send an updated meeting invite to the recipient(s) and convert it to a Lync Online meeting.

Hopefully that helps!

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Many of you may already know that Spotify has a web player in the works, and I’ve heard that some people are able to use it already without any trouble. For the rest of us, paying a visit to play.spotify.com simply redirects you to Spotify’s home page. Apparently, this means that your account isn’t activated to make use of the web player. Luckily, there is a way to enable this web player for your Spotify account right now! Spotify has yet to release a Windows 8 App, so this is nice to have in the mean time, especially for those of you who are using a Surface RT, or another Windows RT device.

Disclaimer

Before we start, just be aware that to make use of the web player with your Spotify account, you must have your Spotify linked to your Facebook. As long as you are ok with having those accounts linked, please read on.

Step 1

Click on this link to enable the Spotify web player for your account. You will be redirected to Facebook for a moment, and then you will be pushed to the Spotify web player. It may hang at the first loading screen the first time you reach the web player. If this happens, just click the ‘Please click here’ link.

Step 2

You should see the Spotify web player login screen at this point. Go ahead and login, preferably with your Facebook account, since it has to be linked for this to work anyway. That’s it, you have now enabled the Spotify web player for your account!

Step 3

Just a heads up and some more explanation on what is happening here. When you click on that specific link and go through Facebook to enable the Spotify web player, specific cookies are being set locally on your computer to make sure going to play.spotify.com does not redirect you away from the web player. This means that enabling the web player in this way is specific to the browser your working in. You will have to do this for each browser you want the web player to work in. Also, if you clear your cookies for any reason, you may have to re-enable to web player again. Hopefully Spotify brings this player out from behind the curtains sometime soon, but for now, this is a pretty simple work around.

Wrap Up

It may not be as fluid as a native application, but I’ve enjoyed having access to my Spotify collection on my Surface RT. I would hope that a Windows 8 App is coming down the line, as Spotify recently released a Windows Phone 8 App which works pretty well. For the time being, crank up those playlists!

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Follow the instructions below to automatically accept meeting requests and remove canceled meetings. There are instructions for both Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013.

Microsoft Outlook 2010

Step 1

In Outlook, go up to File > Options.

Step 2

Go to Calendar, scroll down and click into “Resource Scheduling.”

Step 3

Then check the box next to “Automatically accept meeting requests and remove canceled meetings” and hit OK.

Microsoft Outlook 2013

Step 1

In Outlook, go up to File > Options.

Step 2

Go to Calendar, scroll down and click into “Auto Accept/Decline…”

Step 3

Then check the box next to “Automatically accept meeting requests and remove canceled meetings” and click OK.

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If you reached this page you are probably running on an older Raid Card, perhaps the 9550SX and are trying to see if you can run Windows Server 2008 R2 32-bit or 64-bit on it. Fortunately there is support for this. This specific driver is very hard to find and so we thought we should share it with you.

You can download it from our Mega mirror here:
driver-win-x64-9.5.0.1_usbfloppyinstall.zip

Enjoy!

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Are you running Microsoft Outlook and getting the following popup when trying to dismiss/delete a reminder? “Cannot Turn Off Reminder. You may be reminded again. Could not complete the operation. One or more parameter values are not valid.”

Below are a couple things you can try to get rid of those corrupted/stuck reminders.

Solution 1

There is a great tool called MFCMAPI. MFCMAPI uses Microsoft’s published APIs to provide access to MAPI stores through a graphical user interface. Its purpose is to facilitate investigation of Exchange and Outlook issues and to provide developers with a canonical sample for MAPI development.

Head over there and download the tool. http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/releases/view/103734 (make sure to grab the appropriate one; whether you have office 32-bit or office 64-bit)

Please close Microsoft Outlook before proceeding.

Step 1

When you first launch the tool, you will want to go to “Session” and click on “Logon.”

Step 2

Choose the Outlook profile you are having problems with. By default you will most likely only have one, “Outlook.”

Step 3

Right click on your mailbox and select “Open Store.”

Step 4

Select “Finder” and then right click on “Reminders” and select “Open contents table.”

Step 5

Be careful on this step. You don’t want to select all of them and delete, otherwise you will lose all of your reminders. Search for and find the specific reminders that you cannot turn off or dismiss, right click on them and select “Delete message.”

You can then exit the tool, launch Microsoft Outlook and hopefully your reminder will now be gone!

Solution 2

The second solution would be to simply wipe the local Outlook profile by going into “Mail” in the control panel, deleting the profile and then rebuilding it. You could also temporarily turn off cached Exchange mode. This would most likely fix your problem right away, however I don’t recommend this as a long term solution. Obviously if the errors are happening when in cached mode, there is a problem somewhere that you need to resolve. But if you want to turn off exchange cache mode simply go into the email properties of your mailbox in Outlook and uncheck “Use Cached Exchange Mode.”

Solution 3

You can also start Microsoft Outlook with the /clean reminders flag and it will rebuild your reminders. To do this, simply go to Run and type Outlook /clean reminders.

Hopefully out of those three solutions one of those will work for you!

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