Saturday, May 12, 2012

Adding a UID to Admin Group

Save below as .BAT file and run as admin:

@echo off
net localgroup administrators DOMAIN\UID /add

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

MS Office 2007 - Not Genuine Warning

Method 1.

Uninstall KB949810

Method 2.

1. Save your work and close all the open Office applications
2. Navigate to the following Windows folder: C:\Windows\System32
3. Find the following files and delete them. (You can rename the files instead of deleting them. It is recommended because if anything goes wrong you can go back to the previous state by giving the files their original names).
OGAEXEC
OGAAddin.dll
OGACheckControl.dll

Method 3.

1. Open Windows RUN dialog, enter regedit and hit Enter.
2. Navigate to the following registry key paths:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Powerpoint\Addins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Excel\Addins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Word\Addins
3. Expand each of the above registry paths and delete OGAAddin.connect

You can follow any of the above methods to remove/disable the Office Genuine Advantage notifications. Once you are done with any of the above steps, remember to disable Windows Auto-update else the notification application will be installed again.

Mails Disappearing from Outlook

This solution may be useful when the user meets the following conditions:

1. the user has two or more workstations where they can access O
2. the user says that mails appear on one computer and not in the other one
3. or mails appear on one computer, but disappear shortly afterwards
4. mails in sent items, do not disappear

Solution:

You may want to check the mail delivery settings of the user's Outlook client on one of their workstations. It may be that one of the PCs have a setting which send new mails to a different location (and not their primary mailbox) such as a .pst file.

To see this, go to Tools > Email Accounts. In the wizard, find the part where you are given the option to 'Deliver new e-mail to the following location'.

Make sure that the option selected is their exchange mailbox and not some .pst file. It should be ok afterwards, but any previous mails should be transferred manually to the exchange mailbox or they would have to copy the .pst file to the other computers.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Adding a UID to Admin Group

Save below as .BAT file and run as admin:

@echo off
net localgroup administrators DOMAIN\UID /add

Printer Mapping

This is used to map network printers onto a PC, provided they already have access. To use, edit the file in notepad as below and save as .bat, then run it on user's PC:

REM Map network printer
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\hostName\printerName /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n \\hostName\printerName

Replace the red text with the full path of the network printer.

Defrag and Shutdown Script

Save below as batch file:

defrag c:\
%windir%\System32\Shutdown.exe -s -t 5 -f

Drive Mapping

Save below as bat file:

net use J: FULL_UNC_FOLDER_PATH