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Last updated Jan 7, 2021
  •   01 Jul 2020  

    Dynamics CRM Buttons Greyed-Out in Outlook

    We've had an issue where the CRM buttons were greyed out in Outlook 2010 and CRM 2011. The Outlook CRM addin was properly installed and enabled but when the user opened Outlook and selected the CRM tab, all CRM related buttons and actions are greyed out. This happened when Office 2013 (or later) component was installed on the user’s PC. Because there are shared components between versions, it created an incompatibility.

    As a first step, check event viewer to see if there are any application errors that have been logged regarding the MSCRMAddin load behaviour.

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  •   10 Jan 2020  

    Canon Image Runner change SMTP port remotely

    Some Canon multifunctions do not allow you to change the ports from the web interface (ie: iR-ADV 4525), only when you are in front of the multifunction itself. If there's no on-site access, there's a way to bypass this issue.

    First enable remote access. On the Web Interface, go to:

    Management Settings -> License/Other:

    1) Select "Remote Operation Settings" and enable "Use Remote Operation" checkbox

    2) Select "ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Settings" and enable "Use ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM" checkbox.

    Once done, hit "Apply Setting Changes" and reboot the printer.

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  •   28 Dec 2019  

    Export emails from OST or PST

    Exchange 2013 2 There are a few OST to PST converters available around, most of them commercial products, with some being better than others. We won't list them here, because we haven't tried any. We have ran into a situation where we've had to get the emails from an OST file. The IT support client did not particularly care what format, as long as they were readable. We've used this free, open-source tool that allowed us to extract the emails in rtf and txt format, and extracted the related attachements.

    Please note that this tool does not allow you to convert the files to PST.

    The tool can be compiled from source here: https://github.com/libyal/libpff or you can download this compiled version.

    Example usage: Output all emails in all formats from file.ost

    pffexport.exe -f all -m all file.ost

    Full details on application usage:

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  •   03 Dec 2019  

    Convert MBR to GPT under Linux

    linux icon 19With the bigger disks that are no longer supported by MBR there's a constant need to convert to GPT.

    We have done this using a live disk, however, it is always important to create system backups. The disk was 6TB, with 2 smaller live partitions. Without converting to GPT we could not take advantage of the entire disk capacity. Assuming that the disk is /dev/sdb (the first 2 partitions are /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2). Below instructions are not for a bootable disk, rather a secondary partition.

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  •   04 Nov 2019  

    Enable Perl and CPAN on a Mac

    We've tried to install a Perl package unsuccessfully on a Mac and, as it turns out, you need to do a few things before you can run CPAN and install packages. Specifically, you need to install developer tools:

    xcode-select --install

    Once that installs, you should now be able to run cpan and install packages. Make sure cpan runs as a super user (ie sudo):

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  •   30 Sep 2019  

    Mapping ata2.00 (ataX.00) to a device

    linux icon 19On occasion you may get a nasty error like this (BadCRC generally means bad sectors):

    [4530467.649165] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x60000000 SErr 0x280100 action 0x6 frozen
    [4530467.649608] ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
    [4530467.650043] ata2: SError: { UnrecovData 10B8B BadCRC }

    But the problem is mapping the drive ata2 to an actual disk drive device. This can be achieved by running this command:

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  •   12 Aug 2019  

    Robocopy - copy only missing files

    Q. I have 2 directories that I'm combining (eg: from 2 backups), some files are newer, some are older, butI only want to copy the missing files to the destination. How do I do that?

    A. Robocopy has a few flags that are useful for ths situation:

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  •   17 Jul 2019  

    Accessing Joomla database (directly and indirectly)

    There are various situations when you need to access the database in Joomla. The proper way of doing it is to use getDbo:

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  •   02 Jul 2019  

    Find out which IP is assigned through dnsmasq

    linux icon 19This is how you can find out which IP is assigned to a computer using dnsmasq. Unless you've specified a different log for dnsmasq, the output will go into syslog (/var/log/syslog).

    A quick way to isolate the requests, is by running this command:

    cat /var/log/syslog | grep "DHCPACK"

    This will produce a list of IPs assigned, with a MAC address and hostnames:

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