If you want to add or remove any startup programs in Windows 10, there is no straight forward way. Somehow Microsoft Windows Team thought let the users manage the Startup items are a bad idea. To Add or Remove Startup programs on your user profile: Click Windows Key + R to open Run dialog Type … Continue reading Windows: How to Add/Remove Startup programs? →

I always generated Office 365 Licenses report myself so I can get all the data about the users. I have used this report to reclaim licenses or view how the licenses have been used. If you are interested, see the PowerShell Script below. This script will connect to Azure AD PowerShell (MSOL Service) and get … Continue reading Office 365: Generate Office 365 Licenses Report →

Since Dynamic Distribution Group lists its members by running the query (to Get-Recipient command) whenever someone sends email to this DL. But how do we troubleshoot if a user is not receiving email from this DL. Why would this user left out? Exchange 2010 onwards Microsoft provided PowerShell is the only way to check the … Continue reading Exchange: List all members for ‘Dynamic Distribution Group’ →

You may get this error message in Outlook when sending email to a particular user ( s ) due to Message Size Restriction parameters in Mailbox properties. We won’t be able to deliver this message to John Doe because it is too large. Usually Message Size Restriction is turned off, meaning within Exchange organization users … Continue reading Exchange: We won’t be able to deliver this message to John Doe because it is too large →

Skype for Business 2013 or 2016 will throw this error if you try to use it with older Lync servers. Cannot sign in because the server version is incompatible with Skype for Business. Fix: Add DisableServerCheck registry key. Reboot your computer (to reload the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive). Your Skype for Business client will work after … Continue reading Use Skype for Business with older Lync Servers (Fix for error: Server version is incompatible) →

I have helped someone with their Word (& PowerPoint) for not able to add custom words into Dictionary. When the user selected an word and right click, the option for Add to dictionary is greyed out like below picture. Fix/Solution: Add a Custom Dictionary and select a language in Proofing options. Click File –> Options … Continue reading Office: “Add to dictionary” option greyed out →

I wrote this script to collect LUNs information (mostly Size and Free Space) on our SQL and Exchange servers. If we assign the LUN from Storage system as NTFS mount point, you can’t really see the Total size and Free disk space in GUI (File Explorer). So I wrote this script to collect and monitor … Continue reading PowerShell: List iSCSI and Fiber Channel LUNs on a Windows Server →

I see quser.exe and telnet.exe is in C:\Windows\System32. But in Command prompt, it says “is not recognized as an internal or external command”. WTF Microsoft? They screwed up (may be in name of security) big time.  I installed telnet client in Windows Features. It’s the same deal. WTF? I didn’t find anything on Internet to … Continue reading Windows 10 (8.1): built-in commands is not recognized as an internal or external command →

User account has c and co attributes to specify the country of the user. c attribute has the country code and co has actual country name. When we edit the user accounts to populate the country code,  we need to know the correct code. These country codes are defined in ISO 3166 (LINK). If you … Continue reading Country Codes used in Active Directory →

I have added batch migrations (with an csv file) in Exchange 2013 web console. Then I wanted to see the migration (mailbox move) status in Exchange Shell. Get-MoveRequest –BatchName “CorrectBatchName” That returned nothing. I was baffled. I found the answer when I ran the following command. BatchName property has the correct batch name format. Get-MoveRequest … Continue reading Exchange 2013: Get-MoveRequest batch status returns nothing →