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 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...
Exchange / Outlook – Security Alert – “The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to trust”
KB ID 0000454 Problem Out of the box Exchange 2007 and 2010 comes with a “Self Signed” digital certificate. That’s OK for getting you up and running but your Outlook clients may start to see the error below. Error: Security Alert Information you exchange with this site cannot be viewed or changed by others. However, there is a problem with the sites security certificate. The security certificate was issued by a...
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...
Microsoft Lync Install Error “Prerequisite installation failed: Wmf2008R2”
KB ID 0000513 Problem Seen Installing Lync Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2, during the “Setup or Remove Lync Server Components” phase of the Deployment Wizard. Error: Prerequisite installation failed: Wmf2008R2 Details Type: PreInstallFailed Solution Thankfully this is a know problem and Microsoft has addressed it with KB 2522454 1. Drop to command line and issue the following command: %systemroot%system32dism.exe...