If you get this error when you click on links in Outlook emails, you would be wondering what’s this error is all about. There is nothing to it. Internet Explorer (or your favorite browser) is not correctly set as default browser for the HTTP/HTTPS links. Solution: Make IE (or Firefox or Chrome) as default … Continue reading Outlook 2013: Something unexpected went wrong with this URL–Class not registered →

Microsoft has awesome Office 365 Admin app on iPhone, Android and Windows phones. But I came across some old school IT guys wants to see Office 365 cloud service alerts in emails. So I wrote a PowerShell script with Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet. Feel free to reuse this script to your needs. Before you start using this script, … Continue reading PowerShell 3.0: How to get Office 365 Service Health alerts in email? (from RSS feed) →

According to this KB article KB2807668, Exchange 2013 database content index fails due to missing AD Group named ContextSubmitters. The KB says, This issue may occur if the search platform tries to check its membership in a security group that is named "ContentSubmitters." This group is not created by the search platform or by Exchange … Continue reading Exchange 2010/2013: Database Context Index Status Failed →

I wrote this script to scan all computers and find if specific Group is member of local administrators group or not. In a day, I found this specific group has local admin access to which computers. You may modify or use as it is of the following PowerShell script if you need to find the … Continue reading PowerShell: Find a user or group is member of local Administrators group of a Remote computer →

There was an issue raised a terminated user is still sending and receiving emails from his/her phone. We checked the user account was disabled (for sure). How the heck the user still sending emails to us? Quick search points to this KB: EAS devices still sync after an account is disabled or a password is … Continue reading Exchange: How come disabled user is still sync emails (on a phone)? →

Other day I have been asked to find out if we can hide DL Members. So Users can see the DL in Address Book, but can’t see the members. I found it’s very easy to do. (Microsoft Exchange Rocks!!!) Here is how you do it. Open Active Directory Users and Computers console. Click View Menu … Continue reading Exchange: Hide Distribution Group Members →

My LG G3 stopped steaming music to my Bluetooth headset. But the Bluetooth devices are paired and showed up as connected. When I played a song, it played through phone speaker. I can control volume, and next/previous songs from my Bluetooth device. WTF? I searched Internet, there were users having same exact issue, the suggested … Continue reading Solution: LG G3 is not streaming music to Bluetooth speaker →

I had a need to count number of files by it’s type. E.g., how many office files, PDF files, etc., I wrote an quick script to generate report on Number of Files by file type (extension) and list of files by file type. Go ahead use my script if you want. Script generates two CSV … Continue reading PowerShell: Script to generate report by file type/extensions (number of files by extension) →