IE InPrivate Filtering – Enable it by default

If you don’t know what’s InPrivate browsing, here is brief introduction (or read it here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/What-is-InPrivate-Browsing) InPrivate Browsing enables you to surf the web without leaving a trail in Internet Explorer. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web. … Continue reading IE InPrivate Filtering – Enable it by default →

Powershell: Outlook.Application access doesn’t work consistently

I was running Outlook 2010 and running an Powershell script to access emails by sub folders and count them for a weekly report. The problem was script seems to failing during testing. Sometime I get list of emails displaying, other times it was nothing. I started my script with $outlook = new-object -com Outlook.Application $session … Continue reading Powershell: Outlook.Application access doesn’t work consistently →

Argh!!! “The specified DHCP client is not a reserved client”

I was trying to add an reserved IP address, I get this error repeatedly. Quick Internet search took me to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms847672.aspx.  It Says, Explanation: Stand-alone DHCP servers are not allowed to operate when Active Directory is operating. This is to prevent unauthorized servers operating on the network. A DHCP server initializes and starts providing DHCP … Continue reading Argh!!! “The specified DHCP client is not a reserved client” →

Multiple Monitors–different wallpapers (Free Open Source Tool)

Wish you had different wallpapers for each monitor on your computer? Is one of your big monitor doesn’t display the wallpaper correctly due to different sized monitors? No worries..there is free software, named WallMaster, does the job. WallMaster provides the following features: Completely independent selection of wallpapers for each screen Random selection of wallpapers based … Continue reading Multiple Monitors–different wallpapers (Free Open Source Tool) →

Exchange 2010: Group Owner doesn’t have owner permissions

On Exchange 2010 organization, Is a user complained he or she can’t add/remove an member to the group they own? Are they getting this error message: “Change to the public group membership cannot be saved. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object.” You double checked the group ownership permission … Continue reading Exchange 2010: Group Owner doesn’t have owner permissions →

Legacy Mailbox in Exchange 2010, Solvable Mystery.

Help desk guys brought me a problem with newly created mailboxes. They claimed new mailboxes were shown as “Legacy Mailbox” in Exchange Management Console. What would be implications? Found an answer really quickly on first page of Bing search. This MSKB 931747 says This issue may occur if the following conditions are true: The mailbox … Continue reading Legacy Mailbox in Exchange 2010, Solvable Mystery. →

Outlook 2010 Sync Issues Folder is full of sync logs (“Synchronization Log:” and “Modification Resolution”) with Exchange 2010 Mailbox

After I moved my mailbox to Exchange 2010, I started seeing two kinds of Sync logs in “Sync Issues” folder: “Synchronization Log:” and “Modification Resolution”. Whenever I delete something and empty my “Deleted Items” folder, I see a sync log in a minute. It says, 22:45:33 Uploading to server 'CAS1.company.com' 22:45:33 Synchronization of some deletions … Continue reading Outlook 2010 Sync Issues Folder is full of sync logs (“Synchronization Log:” and “Modification Resolution”) with Exchange 2010 Mailbox →

Remote Desktop: "Your system administrator Does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer. Because identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials" and “Domain sid inconsistent”

I was trying to remote desktop to a VM that is in different domain. I keep getting this error message: "Your system administrator Does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer. Because identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials" I tried to type the correct … Continue reading Remote Desktop: "Your system administrator Does not allow the use of saved credentials to log on to the remote computer. Because identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials" and “Domain sid inconsistent” →

Microsoft Outlook: “One or more rules could not be uploaded to Exchange server and have been deactivated. This could be because some of the parameters are not supported or there is insufficient space to store all of your rules.”

An user was getting this popup message every time he tried add or modify an Outlook rule. User tried deleting all the Outlook rules, he was still getting this error message. My great colleague (Bob) found the solution that worked for the user. I am sharing that simple solution with you. 1. Close the Outlook … Continue reading Microsoft Outlook: “One or more rules could not be uploaded to Exchange server and have been deactivated. This could be because some of the parameters are not supported or there is insufficient space to store all of your rules.” →

Windows Server 2008 R2 on VM: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item

Newly built Windows Server 2008 R2 server on VM had strange issues. I logged in as account that’s part of domain admins. I supposed to have local administrative privileges. But when try to open any administrative tools (like services, event log), I get this error message: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. … Continue reading Windows Server 2008 R2 on VM: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item →