How To: Office 365 Journaling Workaround

Is there a Journaling facility in Office 365? The answer to this is Yes as well as No. The reason being Office 365 does not allow you to designate a mailbox which is hosted on Office 365 as a journaling mailbox.

The only option we have as techies is to designate a mailbox which is located in an On-Prem Exchange server or a third party journaling solutions provider.

So how can this issue be addressed since many businesses are reluctant to buy a subscription from a third party provider for journaling purposes?

In Office 365, a workaround can be used to get this done by using Mail Flow Rules in Exchange Online. Below steps provide guidance to implement it.

Tips & Tricks: Retrieving Mailbox Stats in Exchange 2007

[PS] U:\>Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft Disp
layName,@{label="TotalItemSize(MB)";expression={$_.TotalItemSize.Value.ToMB()}},
ItemCount > c:\mailboxes.txt

Tips & Tricks: Freezing Visio 2010 on Surface Pro 4

If your Microsoft Visio 2010 keeps freezing on your brand new Surface Pro 4 the issues is with a conflicting dll file.

How To: Copy a Folder and Its Contents Using VBS

The script below uses the CopyFolder method to copy the contents of C:\Scripts to C:\Temp, overwriting any existing files in the destination folder. Note that this will not result in a folder named C:\Temp\Scripts; instead, the folder C:\Temp will simply contain the same files and folders as C:\Scripts. To create a folder named C:\Temp\Scripts, you would need to specify C:\Temp\Scripts as the destination folder.

A Month in Software (01-05-2015)

I'll tell you that the workloads at work just don't seem to be getting any lighter. Hell I'm just going to have to push through and make sure to get these Month in Software articles out at a reasonable time otherwise it's just not worth the hassle.

Tips & Tricks: Adjust AutoFit Row Height in Excel

To adjust the height of the row to fit all the text in a cell, follow these steps:

1. Select the row you want to adjust the height.
2. In Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and in earlier versions of Excel, point to Row on the Format menu, and then click AutoFit.
   
   In Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and later versions, click the Home tab, click Format in the Cells group, and then click AutoFit Row Height.

User profile not loaded (Event IDs 1530, 1533 and 1534)

I received this interesting error at work this week while trying to log into a terminal server running Windows Server 2008 SP2 "Your user profile was not loaded correctly".

Tips & Tricks: Restarting a Remote Windows Computer Using Command Prompt

Having moved all of our servers in to a cloud based environment we now face the challenge of restarting them remotely when they cease to respond via remote sessions. One easy way to do this is to control them via the command prompt.

How To: Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC)

One of the first things I needed to do when we were configuring our latest Windows Server 2008 was to turn off the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (IE ESC).

How To: Enable Proxy via Microsoft Window Registry

A few days ago I was forced to enable a proxy through the Microsoft Windows Registry on a domain locked machines during an internet outage. Below are the steps involved and the location of the registry.

Tips & Tricks: Restore a lost Microsoft Show Desktop icon

The 'Show Desktop' icon in the Quick Launch toolbar isn't a normal shortcut. If you accidentally delete it you can't recreate it the way you would a shortcut to a program. Instead, launch 'Notepad' and type these lines:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file with the name 'Show Desktop.scf' in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\ username\Application Data\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ Quick Launch, where username is replaced by your actual account user name.

A Month in Software (01-03-2012)

Although the look of Windows 7 may seem to be nothing more than some polish applied liberally to the Vista Aero theme, make no mistake: this is a full replacement operating system, and more than just "Vista done right." From driver support to multitouch groundwork for the future, from better battery management to the most user-friendly interface Microsoft has ever had, Windows 7 is hardly half-baked.

A Month in Software (01-12-2011)

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