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AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsWER and Drive Space

I notices that I was low on disk space in one of my machines with a small disk volume on the system partition. So with the help of my handy HDGraph I was able to locate the area of my free disk space consumption. It seems that the Windows Error Reporting Service was dumping logs on programs or applications crashes into […]

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Removing an auto-mapped mailbox

In Exchange Server 2010 SP1, shared mailbox with full access rights will be auto mapped to the users given such rights. This is fine for that user who doesn’t seem to know how to add an additional mailbox to their Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 client. But what about those support and systems admins who grant themselves access for troubleshooting […]

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Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration, Server 2012

Q. How can I disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration in Server 2012? A.  You disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration by doing the following: In Server Manager, click on Local Server in the left pane to select the server you are logged into, this will show you in the right pane, in the Properties section In the […]

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How to Restart or Shutdown Windows 8 from Remote Desktop

You are looking for a way to restart Windows 8 from a remote desktop session. You have come to the right place. I’m going to help you get past missing the good old Windows 7 method of clicking Start > Windows Security > and Restart / Shutdown. For Windows 8 things have changed. The way […]

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disable uTorrent featured torrent banner

I downloaded the new uTorrent (µTorrent 3.2.1) client and was annoyed by this new banner for featured torrents to download. I looked up and down in the preference and after some extensive searching was able to find out how. by going to Preferences, and then Advanced. In the filter, type in “sponsored”. This will give you “sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled“. Set that to […]

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Issue: Outlook Address Book Not Updating

Symptoms: New users added to Exchange 2010 do not show up in global address book Tests Performed: 1. Searched for new users from Outlook – This failed 2. Searched for new users from OWA – This works 3. Put Outlook in non-cached mode and searched – this worked Suspected Problem: Offline Address Book Generation is […]