Author: --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

“Can’t create file:”, Images, screen shots are not able to view in Outlook


Suddenly Images don't show up in your Outlook. If you forward your mail to others, they are able to see the images in emails. Attachments and images will show up in Outlook Web Access. Or you get the following error message when you try to open a attachment in the mail. "Can’t create file: someattachment.doc.  … Continue reading “Can’t create file:”, Images, screen shots are not able to view in Outlook →

Microsoft Office Labs: Search Commands for Office 2007


I found this Office 2007 Search Commands tool from Microsoft Office Labs web site. This cool little tool create an additional Office ribbon tab.  You can type Office ribbon (menu) commands in the search bar like table, format, etc., It brings the related command icons right there on the Search Commands tab. Download the tool … Continue reading Microsoft Office Labs: Search Commands for Office 2007 →

Blank Page or Error appears in Internet Explorer instead of the web page


The other day I am trying to go to http://support.microsoft.com (Great Job Microsoft! great improvement and nice pleasing design) from my office network, I get the following page. It looks like networking problem. Well, it turn out to be it's not networking issue. When I try from my Home machine, web page appears with no … Continue reading Blank Page or Error appears in Internet Explorer instead of the web page →

Finally! Active Directory Tools only for Vista SP1(They called “Remote Server Administration Tools” now)


How many times did you bitch about Vista and Microsoft as a IT Administrator? Well I did few times. Because there was no Active Directory tools like "Active Directory Users and Computers" or "Sites and Services" in Vista. The Windows 2003 version of AD tools won't support on Vista. There was few workarounds, but you … Continue reading Finally! Active Directory Tools only for Vista SP1(They called “Remote Server Administration Tools” now) →

Mailbox don’t receive emails after the associated AD account disabled (and enabled later) the Active Directory Account


Did you ever disable a Active Directory Account which also disables the Exchange Mailbox on the older Exchange servers (Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003 with pre-SP2)? You want to just disable the account, but not the mailbox. right? There is simple solution, read more below. 1. Open the disabled (and enabled) Active Directory account properties. 2. … Continue reading Mailbox don’t receive emails after the associated AD account disabled (and enabled later) the Active Directory Account →

Reboot, Shutdown the Windows Servers remotely


There are situations for IT administrator wants to reboot the server remotely. Fortunately there is Shutdown command from Microsoft. Shutdown command is in-built in XP, Windows 2003 and Vista machines (and Windows 2008 obviously). You can also write a simple batch file to reboot the server once a week or say shutdown your desktop every … Continue reading Reboot, Shutdown the Windows Servers remotely →