Category: Other

Garmin Edge doesn’t save activity after a ride

Issue After a ride, Garmin Edge 530 doesn’t allow end and save the ride. Activity Start / Stop button beeps on pressing, but doesn’t actually do anything. Pressing the power button brings the following message: Connect IQ app is openClose the app before putting the device to sleep or powering off.
Konica Minolta scanning to Synology NAS – Deleted Due to Error

Issue Scanning from Konica Minolta BizHub C224e to Synology DiskStation 218+ NAS fails with the error: “Deleted Due to Error“.
External forwarding from Office 365 Exchange mailbox stops working

Issue Emails forwarded to external addresses from MS Office 365 Exchange mailboxes no longer get forwarded. Instead, the following bounce message goes back to users’ mailbox: Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:Name (email)Your message wasn’t delivered because the recipient’s email provider rejected it.Diagnostic information for administrators:Remote Server returned ‘550 5.7.520 Access denied, Your…
Preview all segments on Strava route before a ride

When you create a new route on Strava (web version) it does display some more popular segments on the route preview page. But the full list of segments is only visible when the route is completed and uploaded as a ride. Here is a little workaround to check all segments on a route before riding:
Office 365 – You can’t assign licenses that contain these conflicting services…

Issue Trying to increase user’s Office 365 mailbox size by assigning Exchange 2 license. The user already has Office 365 Business Premium (Microsoft 365 Business Standard) license. The operation fails with the following error: You can’t assign licenses that contain these conflicting services: Exchange Online (Plan 1),Exchange Online (Plan 2). Review the services included with…
Fixing Synology DS413 slow transfer speeds

I have an ageing Synology Disk Station 412 NAS. It used to be capable of very reasonable 100MB/s transfer speed. At some point, I enabled share encryption, which reduced transfer speeds by about half. It was chugging along like this for quite some time but then noticed that speeds got even slower. After a quick…
Office 365 – cannot delete shared mailbox alias

Issue Microsoft Office 365 shared mailbox secondary alias cannot be removed. I tried removing the alias via Office 365 Admin Center, Exchange Admin Center, and PowerShell (Set-Mailbox “mailbox.name” -EmailAddresses @{remove=”email@domain.com”;}). None of these methods works, it initially looks like the operation succeeds, but the alias is never removed. The shared mailbox in question used to…
Synology NAS Let’s Encrypt Certificate error: “The Operation Failed”

Issue Trying to add Let’s Encrypt certificate on Synology DS918+. The process fails with error: The operation failed. Please log in to DSM again and retry. There are no obvious reasons for the error. Port 80 is open, Synology Log Center doesn’t have any clues.
Download course / route from Garmin Connect while Activity is running

I use Garmin Edge 530 Cycling Computer and there were few occasions when I needed to download a course from Garmin Connect (running on iPhone XR) while on the road with an activity running on the Edge 530. Normally, when you send a course from the Garmin Connect app to Garmin Edge you need to…
1&1 / ionos Exchange mailbox doesn’t work on iPhone

Issue 1&1 (Ionos) hosted Exchange 2013 mailbox works fine in Outlook and via Webmail but doesn’t work on iPhone. The account gets added to iPhone Passwords and Accounts without any errors (using server exchange.ionos.eu), but when in the actual Mail app, no emails get ever downloaded, and occasionally it pops up an error saying that connection…
Batch delete multiple videos in YouTube Studio

Currently (as of June 2019), there is no option in the new YouTube Studio (still in Beta) to batch delete multiple videos at once. You have to click the Options button (three vertical dots) next to each video and select Delete.
View all archived email in Gmail

Archived emails in Gmail are simply emails with all labels removed. You can view them in “All Mail” view, but they are displayed alongside all other emails. To view only archived mail (i.e. emails with no labels) run following search: has:nouserlabels -in:Inbox -in:Sent -in:Draft -in:Chat