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Sometimes it seems in Office 2010 that the GUI activation just does not work, so we have to revert to the CLI. Here's how to do it: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx (Note: Where xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx is the Product Key.) {or install the key via the GUI} After the [...] Read more

There are various tools which BCC emails from Outlook which can be useful for archiving all ones email to, say, a GMail account. This one is free, works well and allows a degree of filtering. http://www.mcgrathtechnology.com/plug-ins I am not the author but a happy user.

This is a topic which is becoming increasingly important and so there is a now a page devoted to it here..

The search or filtyer function in the Eventveiwer is not very good in any of the Windows family in my opinion. Some of the preset filters just do not work and other combinations are not possible. But with a bit of xml writing many more thanks are possible, as the entire logging system is xml based. The full details can be found on this part of the [...] Read more

One of my clients still runs a VM version of MSX 2003 and recently noticed that the queues were very full - hundred of messages - resulting from a SPAM attack. Many of the emails were trying to get to non existent addresses and so clogging up his mail server. To remove these by hand is, of course possible but would take hours or even days. So what [...] Read more

If you are unfortunate enough to look after Windows 2012 servers you may well have been hit by this problem, which was caused by the 'fix' for KB3000061 which rolled out in October 2014. It seems this patch is not working correctly and has various side effects if one tries o install it. First, it fails to install. Second, it then stops any [...] Read more

Where is it? Diskmanager is still there but burried away in the Server Manager. If you need it in a hurry it's much quicker to type: Run diskmgmt.msc in an elevated command window or the 'Run' box and up it wil pop.

An annoying aspect of Office 2010 MAK is that sometimes it fails to activate when using the Wizard for reasons I've never been able to get to the bottom of. However, it's simple enough to do from an elevated command line, like this. Install the 25 character activation key into any Office application. Open an elevated command prompt and [...] Read more