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AppSense Outlook Signature and other Profile Information Lost

By Ben Whitmore / June 12, 2014 June 12, 2014 / AppSense, AppSense DesktopNow, AppSense Environment Manager

When a user logs on and launches Microsoft Outlook, some profile information is lost. The most obvious side effect for us was the user losing their Outlook Signature.

Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase Error: Content index catalog files in the following state: ‘Failed’ Exchange 2010

By Ben Whitmore / January 26, 2014 January 26, 2014 / Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange

So we came across this when attempting a “Move-ActiveMailboxDatabase” powershell command to mount a mailbox database copy in our DAG. We have a powershell script that mounts all DBS on one exchange server so we can do maintenance on the other.

Windows 8 – Here we come

By Ben Whitmore / October 28, 2012 February 11, 2013 / Microsoft

Ok, so normally I research things to the point of infinite boredom but today I took an unexpectedly different approach to Windows 8. I thought, come on, lets just do it. Obviously all my data was backed up to an external disk so for the first time ever I decided to trust Microsoft and just go for it and do …

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Disable Windows Offline Files with AppSense Environment Manager

By Ben Whitmore / September 30, 2012 February 11, 2013 / AppSense, AppSense Environment Manager, AppSense Environment Manager Configurations, Microsoft

Disable Windows Offline Files with AppSense Environment Manager? Easy Hey? Well, in a nutshell, yes. We had a bit of bother trying to work out why this wouldn’t work just by setting the GPO. We had to do some jazzy things with the Offline Files Service or CSC (Client Side Caching). Let me show you …

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