by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, Outlook, PowerShell
To give a user (read-only in this case) access to specific folders of another mailbox, without giving them full access to the whole mailbox, you need to grant permissions at the top (of the information store) level and then specify which subfolder(s) you want them to...
by admin | Feb 23, 2021 | Office, Patching/Security
A Windows 10 feature update broke the activation of a non-subscription Office 2019 installation. The error suggests a repair of Office but neither the quick nor online repair helped, neither did removing and re-installing the whole suite. Add permissions to a registry...
by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | Server 201x
Microsoft have helpfully deprecated the GPO that disables WU notifications for non-admin users (for use on RDS for example). The only “solution” is to nobble the exe that shows the pop-up. Run the following script to adjust the registry so that the exe is...
by admin | Jan 6, 2021 | Microsoft KB, Windows 10/11
Seen a few Windows 10 PCs display an alert dialogue when attempting to run any MMC snap-in (e.g. Services, Local Group Policy etc). The dialogue helpfully states that an “administrator” has blocked you from running this app, and the only option is to close...
by admin | Dec 15, 2020 | Miscellaneous
Using a Gmail account to send alerts from remote devices usually works fine. On occasion Google – for whatever reason – decide that this connection (that has been working fine for months) is now a suspicious login and blocks it. Most of the time simply...
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