Adventures in stupid technology
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Migrate Exchange 2003 to Office 365
Having trouble migrating Microsoft Exchange 2003 server to Office 365 or Microsoft Hosted Exchange using the cut-over migration method? If you’re getting errors when trying to create the migration in the office365 migration wizard, chances are your Exchange 2003 server needs a couple of tweaks to get things going. Here’s what I had to to…
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Pool vac stuck on drain
My pool came with an older Hayward Pool Vac Ultra type cleaner. It works great at keeping my pool clean as long as it doesn’t get stuck on the main pool drain. I know there are tons of experts that say if your pool vac gets stuck on the main drain, you haven’t adjusted your…
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Manually connect Outlook to Office 365
Typically when you setup a new Office365 account, the setup wizard will guide you through steps that will eventually allow Outlook to autodiscover these settings. Here is how to connect Outlook to an Office365 account with out having an autodiscover DNS record setup: [problem] Manually connect Microsoft Outlook 2007 and higher to an Office365 account…
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Delete a windows service
The more applications you install, the more services are created on your Windows computer. Services in Windows are akin to daemons on a Mac or Linux system. They run in the background and perform various tasks. Sometimes when you uninstall an application from Windows, its service(s) are left behind by the uninstaller. These left behind…
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Links in Outlook 2010 won’t work
Some pictures part of HTML email messages do not render in the message preview pane in Microsoft Outlook 2010. Also, when clicking links in Outlook 2010, the following message is observed: This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. The problem is most likely not…
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Reset your Plantronics CS55 Headset
The Plantronics CS55 headset has been saving my neck since 2008. It’s the workhorse of many a call center and generally functions as expected. Every once in a while though it can get into a funk where you hear people but they cannot hear you. Here’s what to do to reset your CS55 headset back…
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Check Gmail from Outlook.com
I like the new Outlook.com. In fact, I like it so much that I pretty much stopped using my Gmail account (can’t stand all the delays in loading labels and emails). I now use Hotmail with the Outlook.com UI to check my Gmail. It’s a little tricky to setup, but it works great. Here’s how…