by Rocky Beaven | Oct 6, 2022 | Microsoft 365, Office, Outlook
Although Office 2013 is shortly to reach its end-of-life (April 2023) it is still in fairly widespread use (from what I’ve seen). Recently there have been a few cases of Outlook 2013 – fully updated – failing to connect to 365 servers; Outlook shows...
by Rocky Beaven | Sep 9, 2022 | Office, Software
Having removed a (non-existent) add-in from Excel, when you restart the program the add-in still tries to load and throws an error because it doesn’t exist. To ensure it is goes away, and stays away, remove the add-in from Excel as normal, close Excel, then...
by Rocky Beaven | Jul 5, 2022 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell
When I was recently using the Exchange Online PowerShell module it repeatedly told me I was using an out-of-date version (albeit I had 2.0.5 and this was the latest non-preview version!) and it was going to be deprecated. The link that MS provided gives you the...
by Rocky Beaven | Mar 28, 2022 | Microsoft 365, PowerShell, Software
With the advent of more “modern” and secure authentication methods being demanded by the main email service protagonists (Microsoft, Google et al), the days of using a basic username and password to send email out from internal devices and systems via an...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 8, 2022 | Software
Recently installed Act! on a client’s existing SQL server and from that point on backing up the VM (using Veaam) failed with a VSS writer error that can be summarised as “Failed to create VM recovery checkpoint (code 32768)” Running vssadmin list writers...