Outlook Opens Additional Mailboxes
KB ID 0000905 Problem I’ve seen this happen on both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. You can open additional Exchange mailboxes from your accounts ‘Advanced’ section, but these mailboxes were not listed there. Solution Above, you can see that the offending mailbox here is called Training&Holidays. 1. On a DC, (or your Exchange server) > Windows Key + R > dsa.msc {Enter} > When Active Directory Users and...
Outlook – Disable Desktop Notifications
KB ID 0000901 Problem Outlook will (by default), display a notification on your screen when you receive an email. Generally this is a good thing, but if (like me) your Outlook collects your personal mail as well, then you might not want these notifications flashing up on your screen. Solution 1. From within Outlook > File > Options. 2. Mail > Untick ‘Display a Desktop Alert’. Related Articles, References,...
OneNote – Notebooks cannot sync – Error 0xE0000024
KB ID 0000650 Problem I use OneNote quite a lot, after a laptop rebuild, I installed the Live ID Sign in assistant (because it asked for it) and then my notebooks stopped syncing to SkyDrive. OneNote needs a password to sync some of your notebooks. A password is required to synchronize this notebook (Error code: 0xE0000024). Solution There’s plenty of posts and articles on this that say “just run this reg...
Office / Word “Add to Dictionary” is Greyed out”
KB ID 0000046 Problem Can be caused by using a custom dictionary file, which was created in an earlier version of word. (or the custom.dic file is set to “Read Only”). Solution 1. Click the Word “Start Button” > Proofing. 2. Locate the “When Correcting spelling in Microsoft Office programs”. 3. Click Custom dictionaries > Browse > This will show you the location of your custom.dic file. 4....
Office Install Error 1935
KB ID 0000399 Problem Seen while installing Office 2007 Enterprise On Server 2008 R2 (Don’t ask). Error: Microcyst Office enterprise 2007 encountered and error during setup. Error 1935.An error occurred during the installation of an assembly component {837Bf-1EB-D770-94EB-A01F-C8B389A1E18E}. HRESULT: 0x80070BC9 Solution 1. Essentially there is a .Net problem, On Server 2008 you will need to add in .Net as a feature. (Server...
Deploying Office 2010 via Group Policy
KB ID 0000464 Problem What used to be the simplest task, has now been overly complicated (Thanks Microsoft!) Simply deploying from a single .msi file would have been far too easy! This procedure uses group policy to install Microsoft Office 2010 via group policy. It uses the Microsoft preferred method of employing startup scripts. Below I’ve also disabled UAC, I found it was stopping my automated install, (If I ran the script...
Microsoft Office – (Product Activation Failed)
KB ID 0000548 Problem Fired up one of my test machines this morning, and opened Outlook to see, Error: Microsoft Outlook (Product Activation Failed) Though if you open other applications you will get the same; Error: Microsoft Word (Product Activation Failed) Error: Microsoft Excel (Product Activation Failed) etc. Solution I’m not sure why this happened, (perhaps I entered the wrong key when I installed it). But it’s...
Office Find your Version and Licensing Information
KB ID 0000566 Problem Note: This is an OLD post, you might want to look at the following article instead; Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version I had some licencing issues a couple of weeks ago with Office 2010, and needed to check my version and licence details, thankfully Office 2010 comes with a VB script that makes this easy. Solution Getting your Office Version and Licence Details 1. Launch a command window (Right...
Word – Cannot Change the Default Language
KB ID 0000963 Problem I know Microsoft is from America, that’s fair enough, and they have built into Windows the ability to change the ‘locale’ and language. But its really annoying when you install Office and it just assumes you want an American dictionary. Now something like 80% of my visitors are American and they will probably be surprised that us limeys spell things differently, after all we all speak English...
Change/Add Office 2013 Product Key
KB ID 0000821 Problem Both ‘box product’ or retail versions of Office require you to add the key and activate them at install time. But volume licensed or MAK versions do not. This makes it easy for you to forget. If you use KMS that’s not a problem, by default they will licence themselves from there. However if you need to put in a MAK key this has to be done manually or office will start complaining. Solution 1. Launch...