PowerShell Web Access
KB ID 0001036 Problem One of my goals for this year is to become more proficient with PowerShell. During my studies I came across PowerShell Web access and thought it was so cool, I’d have a play with it. What is PowerShell Web Access? It’s a web service that runs on a Server 2012 IIS web server. It lets you remote connect to that host (via https) and then launch a PowerShell secure connection to any machine in your...
PowerShell – Update All Domain Users Email Address From UPN
KB ID 0001072 Problem Update: Here is an easier Solution Earlier in the year, I had a problem with Certificate Services, every time it tried to issue a ‘user’ certificate it gave me an error because the user did not have an email address specified on their user object in AD. At the time I thought “I wish I know enough PowerShell, to just put an email address in all the users e-mail attribute”. So while...
Outlook Blocks Attachments
‘Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments’ KB ID 0000058 Problem Yes it is annoying, someone tries to send you a copy of an program, a database r you are the one doing the sending, and your Outlook client blocks it, but this is done for a good reason. Microsoft have classified 39 different file types as being “dangerous” to your system and have categorized them into two levels....
Microsoft Outlook Working With Shared Calendars
KB ID 0000186 Problem You either want to share your own calendar, or get access to another users calendar. Solution Outlook 2010 – Shared Calendars Topics covered in the video below, Outlook 2010 – How to grant a user rights to your calendar (Delegate Access). Outlook 2010 – How to grant a user Read rights to your calendar (Via Email). Outlook 2010 – How to grant a user rights to your calendar (Direct...
Outlook – The {name} Column is Missing from my Inbox
KB ID 0000198 Problem I don’t know why, but the From column disappeared from the Outlook (2007) Inbox this morning. Should this happen to you, and you need to restore (or add/remove) a column to/from your inbox. Solution 1. Within Outlook > Click View > Current View > Customize Current View. 2. Click Fields > Select From (Or the one you are missing/want). > Add > You can then move it up and down the list. >...
Outlook Autocomplete / Nickname / Nk2 file
KB ID 0000284 Problem Note: Outlook 2010 no longer uses the .nk2 file click here. When you work with Outlook, every time you type or send an email, the email address that you are sending to, gets added to a cache on your computer. This cache lives in a file called the “nickname” file or the NK2 file. Solution To remove and entry from the list Simply select it and press “Delete”, or there’s a utility...
Configure Microsoft Outlook for Gmail
KB ID 0000366 Problem You would like to connect Microsoft Outlook to your Gmail account. Solution 1. If Outlook does not have an account already it will prompt you when it launches, if you are adding an account click Tools >Account settings > Add. 2. If you are in a domain environment it will try and auto configure your account, but you want to set things up manually, select “Manually configure server...
Outlook 2013 and 2010 Stop – Do you want to send this message without a subject?
KB ID 0000371 Problem With Outlook 2010, everytime you send and email withough a subject line you get the following prompt “Do you want to send this message without a subject?” Now there are sensible reasons for this, but a lot of the time I don’t really want to put in a subject, especially if I’m conversing with friends colleagues etc. And I’m really sick and tired of being asked. Solution 1. Open...
Outlook Lost its “Favorites” Folder
KB ID 0000431 Problem After messing around, adding and removing some mail profiles on my Outlook 2010, It managed to lose my favorites folder. Even the option to add folders to the Favorites folder had disappeared? Solution 1. Close down Outlook. 2. Run the command outlook.exe /resetnavpane {enter} 3. You can now add folders back to favorites. Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA...
Outlook 2010 – Migrate Autocomplete Settings
KB ID 0000451 Problem Before Outlook 2010 we could simply migrate autocomplete entries by locating and moving the clients nk2 file. But Outlook 2010 did away with the .nk2 autocomplete file. The autocomplete/autosuggest file remembers your previously typed email addresses. The good news is that you can still migrate the settings, only now you need to migrate a .dat file instead. Solution 1. In this example I’ll migrate the...