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  • Deleting Default Mailbox Database in MS Exchange 2016

    If you try to remove the default mailbox database in Exchange 2016 EAC (Exchange Admin Center) you may get following error: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes, Audit mailboxes, To get a list of almailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>.…

  • MS Outlook search broken – Search results may be incomplete because…

    Issue Outlook 2010 search shows below warning and doesn’t return any recent emails in the search results. Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed. Click here for more details. Indexing status shows number of items than need to be indexed and that number slowly increases. It looks all new items go into…

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – Map is Offline

    Issue After every action in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Maps module, the map switches to the whole world view and displays message Map is Offline. This lasts for 1-2 seconds after which maps goes back to a normal operation until the next user action.

  • URL Rewrite HTTP to HTTPS redirection on IIS 7

    There are few ways to enable HTTP to HTTP redirect on IIS websites. In this example I will use URL Rewrite method. If your don’t already have it download and install IIS URL Rewrite extension.

  • Using “Let’s Encrypt” to request and enable free SSL security for IIS website

    The easiest way to to provide free Let’s Encrypt SSL security for IIS website is to use letsencrypt-win-simple tool. Download and extract letsencrypt-win-simple to a folder on your IIS server Run letsencrypt.exe and follow a simple command line wizard: Provide email address for certificate expiration notifications Select which ISS website you will be securing. Make sure your…

  • Roboform Google Chrome Extension gets disabled on every launch

    Issue Roboform (Password Manager by Siber Systems) Google Chrome extension is automatically disabled every time Google Chrome in started. User has to go into Chrome Extensions page and manually enable it. This enables the extension and it works fine, but only for that single session. When Google Chrome is launched next time, the Roboform extension…

  • Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments…

    Issue A user receives an email with some PDF files attached. Attachments are not accessible in MS Outlook 2010. Instead, following message is displayed: Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: Important! Invoice 721.pdf, Important! Invoice 721.pdf. Workaround This MS Outlook behaviour is a bug introduced by 13 June 2017 Outlook Security Update, and affects…

  • Event 11 – The driver detected a controller error on DeviceIdeIdePort

    Issue Computer randomly becomes unresponsive or very slow without any apparent reason. System even logs are full of following errors: Event ID: 11Level: ErrorDescription: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort4.

  • Convert VMware vmdk disks to Hyper-V vhdx

    Download and install Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 Start Windows PowerShell as administrator Import the converter’s PowerShell module:  Import-Module ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1’ Convert vmdk disk to vhdx: ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath “D:\SOURCE_PATH\VMware_Disk.vmdk” -DestinationLiteralPath “D:\DESTINATION_PATH\Hyper-V_Disk.vhdx” -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx Must be run on Windows 6.2 (Windows 8 / Server 2012) or later OS.

  • Install PEAR Mail on Windows Server 2008R IIS7 PHP

    This article assumes that you already have PHP installed and working and your PHP location is C:\PHP Download go-pear.phar file from https://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar and save it as C:\PHP\PEAR\go-pear.phar  Open command prompt, navigate (cd) to C:\PHP\PEAR and run: php go-pear.phar Accept all installation defaults: Install Type: System-Wide Default paths: Yes (double check that path to your PHP install is correct) Update php.ini: Yes

  • Installing PHP for IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008R2

      Download non-thread based PHP 7 from windows.php.net. (I used version php-7.1.5-nts-Win32-VC14-x64) Extract all files to C:\PHP Rename php.ini-production to php.ini and make following changes: Uncomment and set: cgi.force_redirect = 0 Uncomment and set: fastcgi.impersonate = 1 Uncomment and set: extension_dir = “ext” Add ;C:\PHP to Windows Environment PATH Variable: Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings >…

  • Issues with VMware Workstation VMs on Windows Storage Spaces

    I recently configured a Windows 10 (1703) PC with Storage Spaces in 2-way mirror mode. The Storage Spaces drive hosted some Hyper-V and VMware Workstation 12.5 virtual machines. While Hyper-V VMs worked fine, VMware Workstation started causing trouble from the beginning. At first I notices issue with Linux Virtual Machines. They would install and start correctly one or…