Exchange 2003 – Defragmenting Your Database with Eseutil
KB ID 0000814 Problem I don’t have many clients left that still have Exchange 2003, so this will probably be the last time I have to do this (famous last words). Exchange databases NEVER get smaller, if you delete information out of them, it simply creates white space, that Exchange will reuse, (so they will steadily grow in size). Before you carry out this procedure, get your users to clear down their mailbox’s. Also...
Microsoft Excel – SGXLADDIN.dll could not be found
KB ID 0000505 Problem Seen when launching Microsoft Excel.. Error: ‘C:WindowsSysWOW64SGXLADDIN.dll’ could not be found, Check the spelling of the file name, and verify that the file location is correct. Solution You are seeing this because you have installed a Sage accounting product in the past and it dropped some add-ins into Excel. 1. Close the error > Click File> Options > Add-Ins > Select the “Sage...
Excel – Creating a Dropdown Box ‘From data on another sheet’
KB ID 0000711 Problem My wife asked me how to do this today. I don’t use Excel much, most people think because I work in IT I know everything about all software packages, and they are surprised when I’m asked questions like this, and I say ‘I don’t know I’m a network engineer’. But seeing as it was for the better half, I fired up Excel and worked it out. (This must be worth at least a cup of Tea!)...
Excel – IP Address Formula for ‘Auto fill’
KB ID 0000928 Problem I got asked this week if I know how to do this, a colleague was doing a spreadsheet, and needed to quickly put in IP addresses. The Problem is if you use ‘Auto Fill’ to continue your IP addresses, it does not behave quite like you would expect. Solution A quick search got me most of the way there, but the solution is different depending on which ‘octet’ of the IP address you want to...
Allow Users to Install Printers with Group Policy
KB ID 0000148 Problem Ordinary domain users cannot install printer drivers, because installing a printer driver requires “rights”. So unless you have installed the print driver as an administrator, the users cannot add a new printer, without logging on with administrative privileges, installing the printer and driver, then logging back on as the user, only at that point can they install the printer. To stop this happening...