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  • Office 365 – emails automatically deleted bypassing deleted items folder

    Issue A user complained that he is was not receiving emails from certain recipients. The mailbox was hosted on Office 365 account and the user had access from multiple clients, including Outlook on a Windows PC, Apple mail on a Mac, and an iPad / iPhone email app. Email tracking indicated that all missing emails were…

  • QuickBooks error H202 – Problem with multi user hosting setup

    Issue Users cannot reliably access QuickBooks company files in the multi-user mode. The files were stored on Windows SBS2008 server (with multi-user access enabled). When trying to open files, users would often get following error: Problem with multi user hosting setupProblem: The company file is located on another computer and QuickBooks cannot contact that computer.Error code:…

  • Android Studio – Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK]

    Android Studio beta 0.8.9. Running a test app on a physical device device fails during installation stage with error: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_OLDER_SDK] The issue was caused by the following line in build.gradle configuration file: compileSdkVersion ‘android-L’

  • Stop Google Chrome from opening files after download

    When you download any file with Google Chrome and click on a little arrow down, one of the options is “Always open files of this type“. If you select this option, all files of that type will be automatically opened immediately after downloading. It may not be immediately obvious how to reverse this option and…

  • Multiple RDP (Remote Desktop) sessions in Windows 10

    Update: For Windows 11 termsrv.dll modifications, please visit the following page. Option 1 – Modifying termsrv.dll In order to have concurrent user sessions working in Windows 10, you need to make small changes to termsrv.dll file. This file is located in C:\Windows\System32 folder. Before modifying termsrv.dll for the first time, you need to take the ownership and assign yourself full permissions.…

  • Android Studio – Android Emulator running extremely slow

    Issue Android Virtual Device (Emulator) is taking very long time to start and then running extremely slow. Resolution First of all I installed Install Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM). This can be downloaded directly from Intel or using Android SDK Manager.  In the SDK Manager it’s located under Extras.

  • Create email only user account (prevent login to domain computers)

    There are many ways to prevent Active Directory users from logging on to certain computers. For large and more complicated scenarios it’s best to use Group Policy. But if I need to create a few “email only” user accounts I normally do following:

  • MS Office File in Use (locked for editing) – wrong user

    Issue Trying to open MS Excel file, user gets a File in Use message: File in Use<filename> is locked for editing This would be normal, as the file was really locked, but the username in the message was not of the user who had had the file opened. It was another user on the same…

  • Can’t remove watermark in Microsoft Word

    Issue Cannot remove a watermark in Microsoft Word 2010. Normally to remove a watermark you go to Page Layout > Watermark > Remove Watermark. But in this particular case this did nothing.

  • Outlook keeps prompting for password but delivers emails

    Issue Microsoft Outlook 2010 connected to Exchange 2007 mailbox on a local LAN network. User keeps getting Outlook password prompt. Entering correct credentials removes the prompt for a few minutes, but then it reappears. Incoming and outgoing emails are working fine.

  • Android Studio – Rendering Problems. Exception raised during rendering

    Android Studio Beta (0.8.9). Error when trying to add certain layout elements. The element is not displayed and following error appear: Rendering ProblemsException raised during rendering:java.lang.System.arraycopy([CI[CII)V

  • Android Studio SDK Manager error – Failed to create directory

    Error trying to install Packages via Android Studio (Beta) SDK Manager: Failed to create directory