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AppSense Outlook Signature and other Profile Information Lost

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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.

Windows 8 - Here we come

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 an in-place upgrade.

Disable Windows Offline Files with AppSense Environment Manager

ben@byteben.com (Ben Whitmore) — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

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 how it works in our environment.