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  • This is a quick tutorial to setup Email Relay using Office 365 or Exchange Online services. Requirements: Office 365 / Exchange Online Account Static IP address at your site (from where emails will be sent)

  • To enable GPO startup / shutdown / log-on / log-off logging: Open registry editor (regedit.exe) and navigate to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DiagnosticsCreate key “Diagnostics” if it does not exist. Create new DWORD Value called GPSvcDebugLevel and set value (HEX) to 0x30002 Restart the PC Windows…

  • Issue Every time opening Sage, users are greeted with following error message: SGWebBrowserAn invalid argument was encountered After dismissing the error, Sage opens fine, but does not display the welcome page.

  • This morning I tried to connect to some devices on my home network remotely only to find that they appeared to be offline. My first thought was that there was an issue with my home Internet connection, but after quick…

  • I occasionally use Acer W510 hybrid (in tablet mode) to play audio through a Samsung Bluetooth speaker. After one-off pairing, to make audio play through the external speaker, you have to change default payback devices in Windows Sound dialog Playback tab.…

  • The easiest way to close/kill a process in AutoIt is: ProcessClose(“process_name.exe”) This works fine if there is only one instance of that particular process, but if you have more than one instance, it will close only one of them.

  • Windows SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007 SP3. Items deleted from Exchange Server Public Folders are kept for a number of days configured in Public Folder Mailbox Database Properties: To recover deleted items, download, extract and run PFDAVAdmin tool (full name…

  • Issue Can’t enable “Run ClipX on Startup” option in ClipX Configuration menu. The option doesn’t get saved.

  • Issue Newly setup Remote Desktop Web Access service with RD Web Access, RD Gateway and RD Session Host roles located on the same server. Everything was working during testing a day before, but next morning external users couldn’t connect to…

  • These changes need to be done on your Remote Desktop Web Access server. Always backup files that you intend to edit and be aware that Windows updates and service packs can override your changes. To change the default page header…

  • Issue Browsing to Remote Desktop Web Access site (RemoteApp Programs page) Internet Explorer 11 users are greeted with warning message: Browser Not SupportedThis Web browser is not supported by RD Web Access. RD Web Access requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or…

  • I’m not an audiophile, but standard BMW stereo system sounds pretty bad to my ears. There are obviously very fancy (and expensive) audio system upgrades possible, but I decided to go with an official BMW Alpine kit. Mainly for two…