David Vielmetter

Category: Tips

  • Office 2013 will not launch or repair

    If Microsoft Office 2013 or Office applications part of your Office 365 installations will no longer launch and both the Quick Repair and Online Repair have failed, a complete re-install may be necessary. Here’s how to do this: [requirements] Internet connection Product key for Office 2013 or Office 365 Microsoft Account username and password [the…

  • Your new Exchange server sends Winmail.dat attachments to recipients on a Mac

    This is an old issue, but it still affects modern version of Exchange (yes even Exchange 2013). Basically emails sent from a corporate email server running Microsoft Exchange will appear to have a Winmail.dat attachment when received on a Mac computer using the native OSX mail application. This can happen regardless of the email format…

  • Outlook 2013 and Lync 2013 suddenly cannot run at the same time

    If you’ve made the switch to Office 365 you may have had a relatively smooth ride since the they’ve moved things to Exchange 2013 and Office 2013. That said, nothing’s ever all roses all the time, am I right? Today a customer experienced an issue where suddenly Lync 2013 is no longer able to launch…

  • Synergy keyboard doesn’t work on macbook pro

    I’ve written about Synergy in the past. Basically Synergy is neat software that allows you to extend the use of one computers mouse/keyboard to another computer. This can be useful if you want to add a notebook or an extra computer to your multi-monitor workstation setup and control it using your main computer’s keyboard and…

  • Going back to search results and…nothin?

    In Firefox, when I go back to the Google search results page, I get blank Google search results. I do a lot of searching for my job and this drives me absolutely nuts. When it first started happening I looked around for a fix but there weren’t a lot of people complaining about the same…

  • Issues when scrolling Google News using Safari on the iPad

    I’ve had this issue with the Google News page not scrolling properly on my iPad 2. At first I thought it was just an issue with Safari, because it would only happen after the page was initially loaded. It appeared as if while scrolling down something on the page updated and would automatically take me…

  • iOS mail app unread message count incorrect

    If you are running iOS 6 on your apple iPhone, iPad or iPod, there can be instances where the mail app icon shows an incorrect number of unread email messages on an exchange activesync account. I’ve had this happen on my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 6. Here’s how to fix it. [the…

  • Play music from your iPhone on speakers of any PC in your house

    I have a HTPC running Windows 7 hooked up to my entertainment system in the living room. Recently someone asked me how I play music from my iPod, iPad or iPhone to the speakers of my entertainment system without an Airport Express. Here’s how I do it:

  • Connecting your iPhone to Office365

    This article explains how to setup an Exchange ActiveSync account for get push email from your Office365 Exchange service on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running IOS 7. [Step 1] Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account [Step 2] Tap Exchange [Step 3] Enter your Office365 account email address and password (case sensitive) into…

  • iOS 7 Mail App Thread Count Missing

    I’m typically not an early adopter, especially when it comes to Apple software upgrades. I think I avoided OS X Lion altogether because I was perfectly happy with Snow Leopard and didn’t need any of the features Lion and Mountain Lion promised. That said, I upgraded my iPhone 4s from iOS 6 to 7 the…